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This page approximates a widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow.
Labeled as a Guilty Gear Wiki policy or guideline, changes require consensus.
The Manual of Style is the style guide for all Guilty Gear Wiki articles. It is used to establish consistency across the project, but is not applicable to every situation. Wikipedia guidelines can also be referenced for very general conventions, but with discretion, as some elements may not be consistent with this community's standards.
General[]
- Read our community's rules, as well as our verifiability, spoilers and media policies.
- Editors should write an summary whenever information is added, replaced or omitted. Keep it short and simple by using phrases like "Added moveset" and "Deleted wrong information".
- The minor edit button can be used if changes consist only of a few grammatical corrections.
- For more details as to what each section of an article should contain, see Article Layout. Please note that not all articles use every section. The general structure is as follows: Infobox → Introduction → Body → Gallery → External links → References → Navbox → Categories.
- Tables must use the styling class="article-table" only.
Procedure[]
- Writing
- Editors should observe proper grammar at all times. Emoticons, symbols, SMS spelling, slang, or a conversational tone are not allowed in articles.
- Never use the pronouns you or we in articles, only phrases like "the player" and/or third-person pronouns (he, she, it, they).
- For consistency and because it is usually used in official translations, American English spelling and conventions (including the serial comma) are preferred over others. The only exception is the preference for logical quotation over American punctuation.
- Plain English should be used when possible. Avoid unnecessarily complex or rhetorical wording, and write with concision and clarity. Keep descriptions objective and avoid adding aesthetic details, figures of speech, or onomatopoeia like "She danced like the waves of the ocean, shining and beautiful. Whoosh..."
- Remember that, when properly sourced, an article leads directly to scripts so Story sections need not be excessively long either; just add what is relevant.
- Although characters are referred by their given names, as per our Spoiler policy, some (e.g. That Man, Bedman) are to be mentioned using their titles in general.
- Present tense is used in most cases. Notable exceptions are the "Background" subsection in character articles, or the "Development" section for media articles, which are written in the past tense.
- Avoid smart quotation marks and apostrophes by converting them to their ASCII versions (i.e. they should look like '...' and "...", not ‘...’ and “...”).
- The titles of works that stand by themselves (e.g. games, books, albums, etc.) and ships (e.g. Royal Fleet One) are italicized, whereas chapters, episodes, songs, and short stories should be between quotations.
- Naming
- Articles should be titled according to their topic's most representative name (the one most commonly used and lore-accurate) from the most recent English translation. In cases when only a non-official translation is available, their inclusion on the wiki requires that they are first accepted by the community, that the translator is credible, and that a note clarifies that is unofficial.
- To differentiate a page from a similarly-named article on a different subject, a parenthetical qualifier or 'tag' may be used in parentheses at the end of a name. Examples of tags are: "(character)", "(ability)", "(status)".
- Redirects should be created for topics with multiple, frequently used official names. This may include the prefixes, titles, or honorifics applied to character names. Spelling variations between localizations may also warrant redirects.
- Generally, titles of works that Arc System Works has trademarked as and refer to in all-caps are rendered in title case (e.g. they prefer "GUILTY GEAR", we usually prefer "Guilty Gear").
- Linking
- A subject should be linked within an article once upon its first mention in the article's infobox, and once upon its first mention in the article's introduction and main sections (those marked with == headers only).
- Do not use the hash (#) in a link unless you intend to direct to a section of a given article.
- Articles should avoid redirecting links by correcting these links to point to an article's actual title. Also avoid linking to disambiguation pages (example: [[United Kingdoms of Illyria|Illyria]], not [[Illyria]]).
- When linking to Wikipedia articles or pages on other Fandom wikis, use the appropriate pipelinking parsers (examples: [[wikipedia:Guilty Gear|Guilty Gear]], [[w:c:starocean:Sol Badguy|Sol Badguy]]).
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