User:SirMoogle/Drafts/Manual of Style

The Manual of Style is written to keep articles consistent and easy to read. This guide page outlines the general style used in the writing of pages and articles. If other guide pages would conflict with this, this page takes precedence. Changes made to this guide should reflect the general consensus, and should be first discussed on this Manual's talk page.

General Guidelines

 * If you need advice, ask an active editor for advice. They are often welcome to help, and if they specifically are not, somebody will be.
 * Articles should be simple, factual, and technical.
 * Maintain a neutral point of view and encyclopedic tone. Please refrain from putting in subjective details unless there is an important reason to.
 * Refrain from using the second-person ("you"). References to the player should be "the player" and their nominative, accusative, and possessive pronouns should be "they," "them," and "their" respectively.
 * Use templates where appropriate. If you are unsure as to how they should be used consult the template's documentation or ask an experienced editor.
 * When creating a new page, include categories so the page can be easily indexed.
 * Check if a current category exists before starting a new one. New categories should be sufficiently general enough to include many pages rather than just 2 or 3.
 * If you are unsure as to whether a new category should be created, feel free to ask on an experienced editor's talk page or consult the #wiki channel on the Discord server.

Plagiarizing
Creation of original content is by far preferable when creating articles. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Editors found to be plagiarizing will be warned for their first offense.

Copied content that falls under fair use may be used but must be properly cited.

Vandalism
Creation of empty pages, pages that contain nonsensical information, or pages that are blatantly and meaninglessly offensive, edits that deliberately disrupt other editors or readers, engaging in edit wars, flooding the recent changes, and creating misleading edit summaries are all considered vandalism. Editors that engage in vandalism will be blocked, usually for a week.

Spam and Advertising
Spamming and advertising are strictly prohibited. Editors who post pages of spam or advertisement will be blocked.

Article titles, headings, and sections
Article titles and section heading should reflect the content they contain. Titles and section headings should be concise and precise. Titles should be consistent with the titles of related content.

Article titles

 * Capitalize letters in a title as they would be capitalized in a sentence.
 * The first letter of a title will always be automatically capitalized.
 * Articles on items should be titled exactly as the items appear in game.
 * Do not use A, An, The as the beginning of a title, unless it is an inseparable part of a name.
 * Titles should not normally end in punctuation marks.
 * Titles should not normally contain Unicode (non-alphanumeric or punctuation) characters.

Section organization
An article should always start with an introductory lead section. The lead section must provide an overview of the entire article. A Table of Contents will be automatically inserted after the lead section if enough sections exist in the article.

An article that expands upon a section may be linked with Main and related articles may be linked in a "See also" section.

Section headers
With spaces: Without:
 * Capitalize letters in headings as they would be capitalized in a sentence.
 * Do not use links for headings or section titles. Use Main or  to link to related content.
 * Header titles can be separated from the equal signs by spaces or not separated.
 * It is more important to keep consistency in an article than to follow your preferred method.
 * Level 1 headings are never used. Level 2 headings are the biggest headings available.
 * Section headings should be unique to avoid ambiguity in automatically generated edit summaries.
 * Headings should not start with numbers or contain images. If absolutely required however, numbers may be used.

Linking to sections
Links can be created to link to specific sections by using. To link to a section within the same page, use: ; to link to a section on another page, use:. Should a section name be repeated within an article, _2, _3 and so on will be appended to the anchor name to each subsequent appearances in the article.

To avoid links being invalidated when a linked section's name is changed, it is recommended to add a comment in the section heading. For example:

Heading
But not:

Heading
== Heading ==

Title of works

 * A title of a work should normally be italicized, but if the surrounding text is in italics, the title should be in a normal font.
 * Titles of works should retain their capitalization regardless of other rules mentioned in this guide.

Quotations

 * Quotes should not be in italics.
 * Quotes may be put in  or Quote if long enough, or when appropriate.

Capital letters

 * Do not use capital letters for emphasis, please use italics or bold.
 * Incorrect: DO NOT put your cat in the microwave.
 * Correct: Do not put your cat in the microwave.


 * Do not capitalize the unless it is part or a proper noun or item name, in which case you must keep the original capitalization.
 * Incorrect: Attacking The Enderdragon without proper gear may result in death.
 * Correct: Going into The Nether without proper gear may result in death.


 * "Creative" and "Survival" are capitalized when referring to the two game modes.

Boldface

 * If the article title appears in the lead section, it may be highlighted with bold text.
 * Correct: Wool is a product you get from killing or shearing sheep with shears.


 * Bold can be used to indicate emphasis.

Italic

 * Italics can be used to indicate emphasis.
 * Titles of works should be in italics, but if the surrounding text is in italics, the title should not be in italics.
 * Italics can be used to introduce new terms.
 * Foreign words (in the source language) should be in italics. However foreign proper nouns should not be in italics.
 * Incorrect: ... München ...
 * Correct: ... in absentia ...


 * Scientific names should be in italics.

Spacing

 * A non-breaking space ensures that a line will not be broken at that point.
 * A number and its unit should not be on separate lines, using  can avoid them being separated.
 * Correct: 10&amp;nbsp;blocks of Sand.

Numbers and dates

 * If a number takes many words to type out, use figures instead.
 * Incorrect: ten thousand and fifty six;
 * Correct: 10,056; 1/12 one twelfth;


 * Delimit numbers over 4~5 digits with commas.
 * Correct: 1,234; 1234; 12,345
 * Incorrect: 1.234 (one thousand two hundred and thirty four)


 * Retain in game formatting when possible.