EEWiki:Manual of Style

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.

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, block, world, or package) are not capitalized unless 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 blocks, such as the Factory Package or Easter 2012 Decorations.
• Incorrect: The Bully smiley costs ten Energy.

The community

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

Article and section titles

Article 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

Section heading titles should be in sentence case, meaning that the section is spelled the same as the beginning of a grammatically correct sentence.

• Correct: External links
• Incorrect: External Links

Spelling

Spelling of smilies

Smileys, while incorrect spelling outside this wiki, is used in the game more commonly. Smilies, while correct, is less often used in the game. A writer may choose either smileys or smilies, but this should be consistent within an article. Smiley should always be used instead of "smilie," regardless of the plural form used in the article.