Difference between revisions of "EEWiki:Manual of Style"

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The Manual of Style is a guide that applies to all articles, standardizing specific spelling, capitalization, and grammar. Some of these have two or more choices that may vary usage within the wiki. These should not be changed without proper reasoning unless the usage varies within one article itself, in which case it should be changed to fit.

It should be noted that some of the style practices may occasionally contradict the usage from that of Everybody Edits or one of its official staff members. This is because style choices are made consistent within the wiki, where as the game has some inconsistency regarding terminology, spelling, and capitalization. If the game gains an official consistent style regarding any of these consistencies, the wiki will accordingly be modified to fit these standards.

Article format

Important terms introduced for the first time should be in bold. It can also be used to put emphasis on words.

Terminology

Tiles

Blocks is used to refer to Blocks, the foreground tiles in the game.

Tiles refer to all tile-based items in-game. This includes Blocks, Action, Decorations, and Backgrounds.

Bricks refer to the Brick package, or any other tile package that contains bricks.

Capitalization

Game Content

When used in an article, general terms referring to a variety of objects (such as Smiley, Blocks, World, or Package) are capitalizedunless used at the beginning of a sentence or in an article title. Specific titles, such as Red Ninja or Beta are capitalized, along with the things they represent if used after the name (Worker Smiley or Massive World). The of in Lady's former name Helen of Sparta should not be capitalized.

Features, such as Gem and Magic are generally capitalized to match with the preferred spelling within Everybody Edits.

• Correct: A Massive World can be filled with lots of tiles, like Blocks and Decorations.
• Incorrect: The smiley here costs one-hundred energy.

Roles

Terms generically referring to staff members such as "moderator" or "administrator" are not capitalized. However, when the Staff are referred to as the entire team, it should be capitalized.

Usernames

Usernames should be written out like everyday names, such as Nou. Usernames should not be fully capitalized unless shown by the user owning the name, like TOOP for example.

Article and Section Titles

Article and section titles should be spelled in title case, meaning that all words but unimportant ones (a, an, the, etc.) in the title are capitalized.

• Correct: Minigame Levels
• Incorrect: Minigame levels

Spelling

Spelling of Smileys

• Correct: Smiley, Smileys
• Incorrect: Smilie, Smilies

Spelling of Tiles

• Correct: Tiles
• Incorrect: Blocks, Bricks

Templates

Templates are small blocks of text describing what pages need to be completed. Here is a list of them:
{{Delete|YOUR USERNAME|REASON FOR DELETION}} - Requests a wiki staff member to delete a page.
{{Outdated}} - Marks a page that has outdated information.
{{Removed}} - Marks a page that contains information on a removed feature.
{{Sources}} - Requests more sources for a page.
{{Stub}} - Marks a page with little information.
{{Under Construction|YOUR USERNAME}} - Marks a page as under construction.
{{To-do|YOUR USERNAME|TO-DO}} - Adds a to-do list to the page.