Template:Ship Box/doc

A Ship Box or Ship infobox is a type of infobox that lists certain aspects of a ship such as its name and its affiliation. Here is how one can create a Ship info box and its various manipulations. Please note the following infoboxes here are only used for display purposes. They are here in order to give a visual aid of how the function is done and thus they may contain wrong content on the actual ships themselves.

Basics
First off add the following code at the top of the ship page. This is the most basic structure of the Ship Infobox.

From here you can fill in the blanks in order to customize the box and make it look better. Just simply type the things you want to add after the equal sign.

Mandatory parameters: Optional parameters: Even more optional parameters:
 * affiliation: Here you should add the affiliation the ship belongs to if it has one.
 * first: Here you should add when the ship first appeared.
 * colorscheme: Here you can specify a colorscheme so the text and background color of the ship's name can match its group affiliation color.
 * image: Here you should add an image of the ship. It defaults to File:No Picture Available.png.
 * 1) jname: Here you can add how the name of the ship was written in it's original japanese text.
 * 2) rname: Here you can add how the name is romanized.
 * 3) ename: Here you can add how the name is commonly called by English speakers or in any English version should they exist.
 * backcolor and textcolor: instead of a colorscheme, you can use the [[wikipedia:Web_colors#Hex_triplet|Hex Triplet] values.
 * name: Here you should add the name of the ship. It defaults to the name of the page.