Wizardry Wiki:Coverage policy

This is an enforced policy on Wizardry Wiki. This means that this page details the standard that all editors are expected to follow. To suggest any changes to this policy, please refer to the talk page.

This article sets out the coverage policy of Wizardry Wiki; that is, what topics are considered relevant enough to the Wizardry game franchise to merit coverage in some form on the wiki, and the detail in which those topics should be covered.

In general, the subject matter of an article should have some notable, direct connection to the Wizardry game franchise in order to be considered eligible for coverage on Wizardry Wiki. This naturally includes all information contained in the official Wizardry series titles originally developed by Sir-Tech and various developers such as Drecom, which should be covered in full depth. Similar and successors games, such as Elminage, may be considered eligible for more limited coverage. The extent to which these games should be covered is discussed below. Whether or not an eligible subject is deserving of its own article, or should be merged with other, related subjects into a single article, is generally intended to be left to editors' discretion.

Please note that this article is not necessarily exhaustive, and it may be regularly updated or otherwise altered. To discuss changes to this policy, such as proposed additions and removals, please visit the talk page. The staff encourages you to check this page, and its talk page, regularly, to stay informed of such changes and discussions. If you are uncertain whether or not a subject is eligible for coverage, please contact an administrator, either on their talk page, or via social media such as Discord.

Mainline series

As the primary focus of the wiki, naturally all information pertaining to the main Wizardry series should be covered here. This includes, but is not limited to, the games' characters, items, gameplay mechanics, major story events, and so on. Canceled titles such as Wizardry: Stones of Arnhem, and content removed from games' final releases, are also eligible for coverage; all known information should be covered on the wiki.

Related series and spin-offs

Japanese-created games

The Japanese-created titles such as Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land, Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls, and Wizardry Variants Daphne, are eligible for coverage to the same standards as a mainline titles. This includes characters, story elements, gameplay mechanics, items, and so on, exclusive to these titles.

Licensed indie games

Every indie games being licensed by the franchise IP (in spite of being "Inspired by Wizardry") such as Wizlite: Everybody loved RPGs are also eligible.

Wizardry BC

Due to surrounding NFT controversies and community wishes, Eternal Crypt: Wizardry BC and its spinoff Twelve Goblins: Wizardry BC are illegible for coverage for above reasons. Additionally, Support Wiki:New wiki disallows even further. Learn more.

Wizardry franchise manga, anime, tabletop games

All officially-licensed manga and anime movie, tabletop games, and Blade & Bastard light novel series, based on the franchise, are eligible for full coverage on Wizardry Wiki. This coverage may include individual issues of these publications, as well as characters, items, and so on, exclusive to these publications.

However, unless otherwise stated by reputable sources such as Sir-Tech or Drecom themselves, these publications may not qualify as canon with regard to the games of the Wizardry series, and details concerning the events occurring within should not be included as part of characters' biographies or personality descriptions. Such information may, however, be included in separate sub-sections, and should be noted as referring to characters' manga/anime personae.

Wizardry Clones

The scope covering about games that succeeded from certain titles such as Elminage and Class of Heroes, Wizardry Wiki will cover the relevant games in limited detail.

For similar games that is made by independent developers such as Javardry, Wandroid, and NIZ are also considered, but should be pointed to their dedicated websites only. For games such as developed by a major game corporate or has Wikipedia article should be pointed to their wiki pages.

For the other dungeon crawlers and role-playing games that doesn't have close-resemblances such as Diablo, Dungeon Master and 1991 Eye of the Beholder are out-of-scope.

Non-Wizardry franchise

As mentioned above, any coverage about a subject outside of the franchise are not eligible, unless it's part of collaboration with Wizardry IP or related. This also means Wizards & Warriors computer game, despite being designed by David W. Bradley but completely sets in different universe will not be covered here. In addition, Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar, despite being successor to cancelled title must never be covered here due to one of the programmer being allegedly for discriminations.

Platforms

Every platforms on which at least one Wizardry title has been officially published are eligible for limited coverage. This includes systems such as the PlayStation 2.

Android, iOS, Satellaview, and Arcade are not eligible for coverage. Information on these platforms is available on Wikipedia.

Corporates and people

All corporates and people involved in the development and/or publication of the main Wizardry game franchise, as well as other titles listed above as receiving full coverage, are eligible for articles. This includes Sir-Tech and Drecom, as well as individuals such as Andrew C. Greenberg. Whether or not individual members of a game's development team are deserving of individual articles, or should be grouped into collective articles, is left to the discretion of editors. These articles should primarily focus on the person/company's involvement with the Wizardry series, with brief sections discussing notable other endeavours, biographical events, and so on. Other information should be taken to external sources, such as Wikipedia.