Help:Article structure/Summaries

This is a guide to the suggested structure for Coppermind summary articles. Some summary articles may omit one or more of these sections if inadequate information is available. Looking at existing articles to get a sense of a useful structure is always a good idea.

Intro

All summary pages should start with a statement like the following:

This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of '''''[name of book (linked)].''''' We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book.

This is followed by the following line of code, used to move the table of contents to the right:

<div style="float:right; padding-left:1em">__TOC__</div>

Chapter summaries

The bulk of a summary article will consist of chapter-by-chapter summaries. If a book has parts, each part should be a level two heading with each chapter being a level three heading, as follows:

== Part One ==
=== Chapter One ===
=== Chapter Two ===
etc.

Otherwise, each chapter is simply a level two heading:

== Chapter One ==
== Chapter Two ==
etc.

Chapter and part names and numbering should be consistent with that given in the book (for an extreme example, see Summary:The_Shattered_Lens).

Each chapter is laid out as follows:

{{anchor|Chapter 1}}

== Chapter One ==

{{epigraph|
Something wicked this way comes}}

;Characters
{{columns|
* Person A (Point of view)
* Person B
* a worker
* Person C (mentioned only)
}}

;Plot Summary
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Pay careful attention to the capitalization of each element.