Game Description Guidelines 
The Description section for each game is actually a wiki page for information about that game. In addition to the main description section, there is a second More Information section. This area is meant to include further information about the same game. Also see Wiki Formatting for a general description of Wiki text formatting rules and Wiki Content Guidelines for broader guidelines on what belongs on the wiki and what does not.
General Guidelines
- While this is not Wikipedia, use of a neutral point of view is encouraged.
- When linking to games, link to the game page using [gameid=NUMBER].
- For descriptive terms that apply to many games, link to an appropriate wiki page, even if that page does not yet exist. For example, "This game is language neutral" or this game was illustrated by Doris Matthäus. (These two examples are now inapplicable, as there are BGG modules for both of these now, but the concept of this item is still relevant.)
The wiki Game Descriptions are not meant to be a place to implement other new features such as ratings by number-of-players, personal categorizations (use Tags), or the like.
Things to include on a game wiki page
- A brief description of the game. This should always appear as the first part of the page. A good game description covers theme, game-play, and goal.
- Information on the game's current publication status, prospectively. e.g. "a new edition scheduled to come out in 2009", etc. It is probably best not to list that a game is out of print, as that's a problematic and nebulous designation.
- Notable information about availability (eg, This game is hard to find but frequently is available on eBay) in addition to publication status.
- A list of awards, linked the the appropriate wiki award page (eg, Spiel des Jahres). This should go in the More Information section.
- Links to other related games e.g. other games in the same series, or older versions, along with a description of the relationship between these games. It is worth noting that current BGG modules can link together base-games and expansions, and can link together series and related games through Families.
- Links to wiki pages with extended details about a game, for example if a game has a large number of different editions with a great deal of information about each, you may create a wiki page dedicated to the various editions of a game and simply link to it in the main Game Wiki page
- For children's games, the age range suggested by the publisher.
Things to NOT include on a game wiki page
- Links to designers/publishers/categories that are already included in the game entry, unless the name already is a natural part of the text.
- Rules questions, reviews, discussion, opinions, announcements, or other content that belongs in the Forums
- Images
- Links to external web sites (these belong in the game links)
- Rules suggestions or other things that belong in files or forums
- Recommendations, which currently are best discussed in the forums
- Categories the game is in except as noted above
Note that a separate wiki page for a game FAQ can be very useful, e.g. Hive FAQ, Hellas FAQ, King of Siam FAQ, Tomb FAQ. It is appropriate and helpful for the game's special description wiki page to link to this separate FAQ wiki page.
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