A few additional pointers regarding the applicable infoboxes and categories:
There are various infoboxes for item pages, depending on the type of item in question. Please refer to Templates for a list of infoboxes. For details on their usage, please refer to the respective template pages themselves.
Most item pages are only categorized in one category, although specific exceptions exist (e.g. for weapon pages). The category depends on the game the item appears in (e.g. Category:Fallout items). Please select the right sub-category of Category:Items for the type of item in question. Examples for sub-categories are the game-specific versions of Category:Armor and clothing, Category:Consumables or Category:Weapons.
Item article layout
The layout is composed of three tables. The top and bottom tables are standard layout items found in every article; they are only included here for completeness and are collapsed by default. The middle table contains the actual specifics for item pages.
in the "headline" column means that the article should have a headline of that name if you want to include such a layout item. in the "headline" column means that this layout item should not have a headline.
in the "required" column means that every item article should include this layout item. in the "required" column means that not every item article needs to include this layout item.
Standard layout items (top)
Layout item
Headline
Required
Explanation
Page management boxes
Page management templates are used if you notice that something is out of order with a certain article or section and want to bring it to the attention of other editors or administrators. If the issue affects the whole article, these boxes should be placed at the very top of an article; if only a section is affected, they should be placed just below the headline of the respective section. The only exception are stub templates.
Projects are joint efforts of editors who work together to improve a set of articles that cover a certain area of interest. Some of these projects have tags or boxes which are placed on the pages which the project affects; these should be placed below the article management boxes.
"For" template
{{for}} is used to make a reader aware of other articles they may have been looking for when entering the title of the current page.
Infobox
The purpose of infoboxes is to summarize data relating to the article. Infoboxes should appear in the top-right corner of an article. For a list of infobox templates, please refer to template overview or directly to Category:Infobox templates.
Item-specific layout items
Layout item
Headline
Required
Explanation
Lead section
Short summary that usually looks something like this:
What type of item it is (weapon, armor, drug, edible etc) with a link to the appropriate overview page for this item and game.
Which games this item appears in.
Background
If there is any background story/history for the item.
Characteristics
Properties of this item. For drugs, these are the effects. For armor, these include damage resistance, effects and what other items they can be repaired with if any. For weapons, these include damage, special effects, what items they can be repaired with (if any) and general properties (such as what type of weapon it is etc).
Variants
For weapons/armor; list of variants for this item. If the variants have own articles, these should only be linked to. If multiple variants of this item are described in the current article (on Fallout 3 armor pages, for example), a sub-section (with the name of the variant) should be made for each variant.
Locations
Locations where this item can be found (fixed locations only, no random spawns).
Related quests
If there are quests which are related to this item, list them here (just link them, no need to go into detail).
Notes
For interesting things about the item which do not fit into the other categories. Try to keep this section to a minimum.
Game glitches or "bugs" relating to the article subject. See bugs policy for additional information.
Gallery
If an article contains a lot of images, it is often better to place them in an own gallery section than to have them clutter the article. Please see Help:Gallery on how to use galleries and our image policy.
Videos
If an article contains embedded videos, they are placed here. See video policy for which kind of videos are eligible to be placed in articles.
See also
The purpose of this section is to list links to related topics on this wiki which may not have been linked within the article content.
External links
Links to external (off-wiki) sites which are not references should be just above "References."
References
If references have been used in an article, they should be placed here.
Stub templates
Stub templates mark an article as being too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject. All stub templates can be found in Category:Stub, only the most specific should be used.
Navboxes
Navboxes are navigational aids which allow easy access to other articles in a group the current article belongs to. They should be placed at the end of an article, just above the categories. The most article-specific navboxes should be highest and the least-specific lowest.