Little Tail Wiki:Manual of Style

This page serves as a general guide to constructing clean, consistent and easy to parse pages for all of Little Tail Wiki. By following the Manual of Style and other guides listed in the bottom navigation box, users should be able to smoothly form articles, upload files appropriately, and so on.

Little Tail Wiki is powered by MediaWiki, an open source wiki software that many independently-run encyclopedias use. As such, we utilize extensions and Gadgets to bring everything together.

Language and formatting

This wiki is purely in American English. If you are not confident in the ability of your English, consider asking someone else to proofread your edits for you. We currently do not have any plans to host other languages. As Little Tail Bronx is a Japanese series, there will be some instances where Japanese is used throughout the site, primarily to display names, titles, quotes, interview transcripts, etc. in their original language. For editors, it is not required to be fluent in Japanese.

When writing, there are some general language and formatting rules to follow.

Punctuation

In addition to sticking to American English, for consistency, the Oxford comma is preferred. Singular possessive noun's should also always end in an apostrophe and "s" regardless of if the name ends in "s" (e.g., Taranis's).

Headings

Headings should be written with sentence case capitalization, as seen throughout this article. This applies to all header sizes.

DO NOT insert links within headers! This is disastrous on mobile and can throw off articles functionally and visibly.

Perspective

Story summaries and history sections should always be written using an in-universe perspective. Write as if you are part of the world, and avoid phrases such as "in X chapter."

Tenses Used

Articles must be written in the present tense by default. When editing an article about a character, it does not matter if said character is deceased, missing, or absent in any other fashion. Please write in present tense in order to avoid confusion.

Past tense is allowed to avoid confusion if summarizing a story and a flashback occurs or an event is mentioned to have occurred in the past, such as when summarizing a character's backstory. However, in the case of summarizing works fully set in the past such as Red Data Children, default to present tense.

Names and titles

Many names and titles need to be capitalized in title case. This includes:

• Character names
• Robot/vehicle names
• Attack names
• Location names
• Group names
• Video game names
• Chapter names
• Any proper noun

Certain words are specific to the Little Tail Bronx series and should always be capitalized. This includes:

• Caninu
• Felineko
• Wolf
• Lion
• Hybrid
• Juno
• Titano-Machina
• Hunter
• Cloud Sea
• Nono

Additionally, certain names and titles, particularly standalone works, must be italicized in this wiki. This rule is to help keep articles tidily written and easy to parse for readers. Please apply this to the following:

• Website names
• Video game titles
• Book titles
• Manga titles
• Magazine titles

Editors do not need to italicize character names or proper nouns that are outside of these requirements.

The italicization rule does not apply to infoboxes.

Linking to articles

Linking to articles when possible makes the wiki easier to navigate. Typically, you should only link to the first mention of a topic in an article. It is not against the rules to have duplicate links as long as they are sufficiently spread apart however, and this can be useful with longer pages. Topics mentioned in infoboxes and other tables such as appearance lists and navboxes should also always be linked regardless of if they are linked elsewhere in the article.

As an example, if the word "Felinekos" is used as the first reference to the species within the main body of an article, editors can create an internal link displaying the text appropriately as so:

[[Felineko]]s = Felinekos

This can be applied to any similar case. For more information, see the MediaWiki help article.

Page creation

Editors are encouraged to create new pages to fill out the wiki, but there are certain guidelines to follow to determine whether a subject is deserving of its own article. The foremost guideline to follow is that pages should only be made if there is enough information to avoid being a stub.

Characters

Major protagonists and antagonists and especially playable characters should always have their own pages. Major characters qualify as anyone involved in the main story to a significant degree, appearing repeatedly. Other characters, such as NPCs involved in quests, should be placed in lists of minor NPCs by default unless they appear several times and have enough info to receive their own pages. An NPC with only one or two lines not involved with any quests or a character in a side story who is only briefly encountered would likely be undeserving of their own pages.

Locations

Named locations that are visited during a game should typically have their own pages. Individual rooms within those locations likely shouldn't have their own pages and should instead be described on the overarching location page. Other locations that are not visited in any games or only appear in side stories may have their own pages if they are significant and described in enough detail.

Enemies

Enemies encountered typically should not need their own pages and can instead be placed in the proper list page. Bosses are generally the exception, and enemies that are notable enough may deserve their own pages.

People

Staff and other real life people may have their own pages if they can be filled out enough with a proper biography, their credits, and any relevant media.

Other

Other topics that may need pages are:

• Games
• Game chapters
• Book/manga chapters
• Robots and vehicles
• Significant items
• World lore

Page content

Pages should be properly filled out so that they are not stubs, but not all content is good content. Some rules must be followed when writing articles.

Trivia

The trivia section of articles should be reserved for interesting facts that do not belong in any other sections of the article. For more details, see Trivia.

Speculation and misinformation

Do not add speculation to articles. The primary goal of the Little Tail Wiki is to be a resource for factual information about the series. It is not our role to provide speculation about that information. That should be left to the reader while we provide facts. To list conjecture could lead to the spread of misinformation. Certain limited speculation may be allowed given enough evidence such as namesakes, but if a source is found confirming said speculation, it must be cited.

In the case of articles where there is limited information such as content from an unreleased work or something without a name, the page should be clear about the lack of information. Do not add anything that could be misconstrued as fact.

Canon

While the primary canon is considered to the main games of the series and related side stories building on them such as Red Data Children, CyberConnect2 does not frequently confirm the canonicity of the various works of the Little Tail Bronx franchise. The wiki should avoid explicitly referring to works as canon or non-canon unless officially stated as such.

Editing pages

Little Tail Wiki has two editing modes - the Visual Editor and the Source Editor.

Visual Editor

The Visual Editor is a simple yet powerful way to edit most pages here in the wiki. If you've previously edited for Little Tail Wiki back in the previous host, you'll already be very familiar with this mode. To enter the Visual Editor, click the "Edit" button atop the article if it's available.

This mode is perfect for quick simple edits and image formatting. If you're aiming to make more delicate and specific edits then please use the Source Editor instead.

Source Editor

The Source Editor is the default mode to editing all articles, templates, modules, CSS and Gadgets within the wiki. It is the recommended method to editing here in this wiki as it can more precisely put pages together and make proper use of Lua-based templates. To use the Source Editor, click the "Edit Source" link seen atop the page.

The Source Editor makes use of Wikitext, a unique coding language used in MediaWiki-based websites. If extra guidance is needed, please refer to the official formatting guide from MediaWiki.

Templates and modules

This is for advanced editors.

Templates and modules work on two different coding language sets, but can also work in tandem. Templates utilize Wikitext, HTML and sometimes CSS if needed. Modules exclusively work on Lua, Scribunto and Captiunto and must be called upon with an invoke command through its template counterpart in order to render.

Creating

When creating a template, it's heavily advised to provide documentation as some templates will not appear on their respective pages.

Here is how to properly format a template page:

<includeonly>
[TEMPLATE CODE OR INVOKE COMMAND HERE]
</includeonly>
<noinclude>
{{documentation}}
</noinclude>

It is imperative that the includeonly and noinclude tags are used in this fashion, as the lack of both will render the documentation box with the template in all articles it's used in. When the documentation template is created, there will already be a hyperlink ready for editors to quickly jot down that template's syntax guide.

Modules, when created, will also provide its own module-focused ".../doc" hyperlink for the same purpose. These should be made for more comprehensive guides, while the template's documentation provides a more easily digestible guide for users who are not as familiar with Lua.

Utilizing

To use a template, always refer to the documentation to know how to properly place and form it. Every template is called upon using curly braces, such as this:

{{ContentWarning}}

The above is an example of a plain notice. It does not need any additional information. Many templates do require more input, in which case often looks like this:

{{MissingInfo|This is where custom text goes}}

Placement and rules for templates vary. Again, please refer to the documentation if necessary. All templates can be searched by typing Template:X in the search bar, where X is what the specific name is.