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	<div class="tf-lead">This guide shows you how to create a page for a peerage: a barony, county, duchy, grand duchy, Grayson steadholding, or Havenite senator-for-life. A good model to look at while you read is [[McCovey Cove]].</div>		<div class="tf-lead">This guide shows you how to create a page for a peerage: a barony, county, duchy, grand duchy, Grayson steadholding, or Havenite senator-for-life. A good model to look at while you read is [[McCovey Cove]].</div>

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	# '''Add the succession table''' (see below).		# '''Add the succession table''' (see below).
	# '''Add the coat of arms section''' if the arms have a blazon.		# '''Add the coat of arms section''' if the arms have a blazon.
	# '''~~Categorise~~ the page''' with the holder's rank, for example <code><nowiki>[[Category:Earls]]</nowiki></code>, plus <code><nowiki>[[Category:Peerage]]</nowiki></code>.		# '''Categorize the page''' with the holder's rank, for example <code><nowiki>[[Category:Earls]]</nowiki></code>, plus <code><nowiki>[[Category:Peerage]]</nowiki></code>.

	==The infobox==		==The infobox==

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<div class="tf-lead">This guide shows you how to create a page for a peerage: a barony, county, duchy, grand duchy, Grayson steadholding, or Havenite senator-for-life. A good model to look at while you read is [[McCovey Cove]].</div>

A peerage page describes a "land," not a person, so the page is named after the land (for example, [[Kings River]]), not the peer who holds it.

==Step by step==

# '''Create the page.''' Search for the land's name. If it does not exist, you will see a red link you can click to start it.
# '''Add the infobox.''' Paste the skeleton below at the very top and fill in what you know.
# '''Write the opening sentence.''' Put the title in bold and say what it is. For example: ''The '''County of McCovey Cove''' is a [[peerage]] title awarded by {{trmn}}.''
# '''Add a short history.''' One or two sentences on when it was created and who holds it, each backed by a source.
# '''Add the succession table''' (see below).
# '''Add the coat of arms section''' if the arms have a blazon.
# '''Categorise the page''' with the holder's rank, for example <code><nowiki>[[Category:Earls]]</nowiki></code>, plus <code><nowiki>[[Category:Peerage]]</nowiki></code>.

==The infobox==
Use {{tl|Infobox-peerage}}. Include only the lines you have.
<pre>{{Infobox-peerage
| name = McCovey Cove
| rank = County
| holder = [[VADM]] Cindy Van Wyhe
| nation = [[Star Empire of Manticore]]
| planet = Manticore
| created = 27 May 2018
| elevated = 1 July 2023
| created_by = Queen [[Elizabeth III]]
| coronet = Manticoran Earl
| seat = [[House of Lords]]
| motto =
| image = McCoveyCove.png
| arms_caption = Arms of the County of McCovey Cove
}}</pre>

<div class="tf-note"><span class="tf-lbl">Which date goes in "created"?</span><br>Use <code>created</code> for the date the land first became a peerage under its current name, and <code>elevated</code> only if it was later raised to a higher rank. If the land was renamed from an earlier title, keep the old title as history in the article body.</div>

==The succession table==
List who has held the title. Keep it to abbreviated rank, name, dates, and rank:
<pre>{| class="wikitable"
! # !! Name !! Created !! Elevated !! Rank
|-
| 1 || [[VADM]] Cindy Van Wyhe, [[GCE]], [[MC]] || 27 May 2018 || 1 July 2023 || Countess
|}</pre>

==Arms==
If the arms have no file yet, leave the <code>image</code> line out and the infobox shows the House of Lords placeholder. When a file arrives, upload it (see the note on image size in [[Help:Editing]]) and add the <code>image</code> line.

<div class="tf-tip"><span class="tf-lbl">Add it to the Wall</span><br>Every peerage also appears on the [[Wall of Peerage]], ordered by precedence. Add your land there in the matching rank section so the roll stays complete.</div>

==Common mistakes to avoid==
* Do not create a page about the '''person'''. The page is about the land.
* Do not list a peer's full set of post-nominals in the infobox. Keep the infobox short.
* Do not mark a peerage "defunct" without an order that dissolved it.

{{Editor documentation}}
[[Category:Metawiki]]
[[Category:Wiki documentation]]
[[Category:Wiki guidelines]]

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