Weird West Wiki:Manual of Style

Article Name

Article names should always be in singular form, e.g. Ranged Weapon, not Ranged Weapons, unless the plural form is a name (proper noun).

Introductory Text

All pages will have an introductory section with the Page Title in bold. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Article Body

Relevant information on the subject goes in the article body. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Subheading

If necessary, the article body can be broken up by subheadings. Their use should be limited to large sections, not single sentence or paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Formatting Rules

The follow rules are to observed in regard to all articles:

Basic Formatting and Tense

• Narrative present tense is standard for all articles. Only events that took place prior to the time period covered in the source material will be in narrative past tense.
• Articles will be written from an in-universe perspective.
• No first or second person, and no use of "the player."
  • Exception to "the player": achievement pages.
• American spelling, grammar and terms will be used.
  • i.e. realised realized
• Punctuation will follow the British standard.
  • "punctuation." "punctuation".
• No casual language in articles, excluding quotes.
• Quest names should not be in quotes.
• Game and (real-life) book titles should be italicized in paragraphs, headers, and article name.
  • This function can be used to italicize article name: {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Weird West''}}
• [sic] is to be used when there is an error in the original source material.
• The DefaultSort command is not necessary and should not be used.

Linking

• No red links, i.e. do not link to articles that do not exist yet. Unless you're about to create that article.
• No links in subheaders, picture captions, or quotes and associated captions.
• Use a given in-article link only once per page, on its first occurrence (excluding the exceptions above).
  • This rule does not apply to infoboxes; items should be linked in infoboxes as appropriate, and if those same terms appear in the article, their first in-article occurrence should be linked as well.
• If the first occurrence contains a possessive, the 's goes inside the link.

References

• Information should be sourced with the <ref> tag whenever possible.
• Link directly to primary sources when possible, such as to a tweet itself rather than an image of it.
  • Exception: If an image of primary information is uploaded to the wiki, the reference tag should direct to the image file.
• <ref> tags go after punctuation and outside quotes.
  • i.e. "Sample text."
• Avoid sourcing information on webpages where URLs can be altered, such as tumblr, as this will cause the link to break if the URL changes. Either cite the original source, cite a direct link when the source is an image, or upload a screenshot of the information to the wiki after requesting permission from the blog/site owner.

Pictures

• Avoid subtitles or UI elements in screencaps unless necessary.
• All photos must have a searchable name, or they will be deleted. e.g. Screenshot-2021-10-25_(1).png is not acceptable.
• Galleries are arranged in the following order: concept art and renders first, in-game art/screenshot second, additional art third.
• Picture and gallery captions have periods at the end.
• Galleries are centered.
• Gallery pictures should be somehow unique, not reiterations of already present pictures.

Trivia

• For the purposes of this wiki, Trivia is defined as "uncritical but potentially interesting minor facts in small, concise entries."
• Items not appropriate for this section are non-trivia entries such as:
  • Walkthrough
  • Mission data
  • Combat strategy
  • Subjective matters such as taste and opinion.
  • Information that would be more appropriate for the body of the article.
  • The unverifiable.

Gallery

Almost all galleries will be formatted as such:

<gallery captionalign="center" position="center">

</gallery>

If a gallery is particularly long (five rows or more), a scrolling gallery will be used:

<div style="height:575px;width:675px;border:1px solid #683B35;font:16px/26px;overflow:auto;">
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" columns="3">

</gallery>
</div>

References

Either {{Reflist}} or <references /> is appropriate.

Categories

• All articles must be categorized.
• Pages should be added to the most specific categories that apply to them. A page must not be added to both a category and its parent, but it can be categorized in multiple unrelated categories.
  • A page may also be added to two categories in the same parent category.