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Dead or Alive Wiki:Manual of Style

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While in Dead or Alive wiki, you'll have to write articles CORREECTLY! How you ask? This manual of style section will help you. Read the guidelines as they will help you.

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[edit] What Articles We Want

[edit] Games

  • Each game article must have a descriptive introduction. Tells when the game was released, basically describing about the game in general. Some snippets from the content of the article may be written here.
  • Every game article must have a plot, because we want fans to know what the game was about.
  • They must have the styles of gameplay.
  • Development, how and when it was created.
  • The list of characters. Who appeared in the game? Tell them!
  • External links; these pages should link to pages on important fansites, an official site (if one exists), and the GameFAQs page, as well as any other links that may be relevant.

[edit] Characters

  • Must have a beautiful introduction about the character.
  • The character's history, or biography from the games they were in.
  • Gameplay, how good they are in fighting.
  • Personality, everyone wants to know their personality: are they kind, sweet, jealous, emotional, crazy, psycho, of just plain mean.
  • Trivia, anything interesting about the character?
  • Any External Links relevant to the character; official, informative resources, shrines, etc.

[edit] Quotes

There are no quotes in this wiki yet and we really need some! It's encouraged to have at least a quote in every article. Use the Template:Q for one-liners and Template:RQ2 for conversations between two characters. It's best to write the quotations under each Section.

So if you are able to find a quote for each character, PLEASE DO SHARE!

[edit] Article Titles

  • Article names should be in singular form, not plural.
  • The titles of articles about individual characters should be the name by which the character is most commonly known in their corresponding series.
  • Unless the name of the article contains (or is) a proper noun, none of the words should be capitalized.

[edit] Links

Do not use incorrect links. For example, if you are linking to Dead or Alive, then use [[Dead or Alive]] , not [[DOA]] . In other words, do not use abbreviations for links.

[edit] Sections and headings

[edit] Markup

Use two equal signs (==) style markup for headings. Start with ==, add the heading title, then end with ==.

This section's heading was created with the markup:

==Sections and headings==

This subsection's heading was created with the markup:

===Markup===

[edit] Wording

  • In a heading, capitalize only the first letter of the first word and the first letter of any proper nouns, and leave all of the other letters in lowercase.
  • Avoid putting links in headings.
  • Keep headings short.

[edit] Italics

Use two apostrophes ('') for italics. Italics are mainly used to emphasize certain words and game names, though they should be used sparingly.

[edit] Punctuation

If you are listing multiple things, like different earth runes, each of them should have a comma at the end. For example, "missiles, bombs, and super missiles" would be proper, while "missiles, bombs and super missiles" would not be.

[edit] Images

  • Right-alignment is preferred to left- or center-alignment.
  • If there are too many images in a given article, consider making a gallery with a level two heading.
  • Use captions to explain the relevance of the image to the article.
  • Make large images a thumb.
  • Specifying the size of a thumb image is not recommended.

[edit] Uploading Images

  • Please name your files descriptively to avoid confusion. Uploading an image with the name "0239235jgjgkdgdf" will be deleted.
  • Do not upload images we already have. If you plan on uploading an image, look around the Dead or Alive Wiki first to see if it has already been uploaded by someone else.

[edit] Captions

Complete sentences in captions should always end in a period. If the caption is not a complete sentence, it generally should not have a period at the end. Captions should also not be italicized.

[edit] Numbered lists

Numbered lists can be used for listing steps in a process.

[edit] Wikilinking

  • Every time an article is mentioned on the page, you don't have to link to every single one. For example, Ryu Hayabusa may be mentioned five times. You only have to link to Ryu Hayabusa once. You can link to articles more than once if the page is very long.
  • Use efficient link formats, especially for plurals. For example, do [[Item]]s instead of [[Item|Items]].
  • When including links in an article, there is no need to use capitalization or underscores, since the software produces them automatically.

[edit] Miscellaneous notes

[edit] Font colours

Coloured font can be used sparingly, though not in very bright colours.

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