Glitchtale Wiki:Manual of Style

For page organization manual, see Project:Page organization.

The purpose of this manual is to create guidelines to help uniform content across articles in the Glitchtale Wiki. Reading this is recommended to make the editing process more efficient as it would save editors a lot of corrections. If any questions, suggestions, or issues arise please contact administration.

Thank you.

General

Language

• Glitchtale is shown in American English, and thus this wiki will use standard American English.
• "Epilogue", "Monologue", "Dialogue" etc. should be preferred over "Epilog", "Monolog", "Dialog"
• When making possessive forms of singular and proper nouns ending with s, append ' (apostrophe) only at the end. Example: Sans'.
• Present tense should be used whenever possible.

Article Content

• Factual: All content on this Wiki should be factual; that is, concerned with actuality, as opposed to what is theorized or believed. Please refrain from adding theories, "headcanons", conjecture, opinions, and other kinds of non-factual information.
  • Conjectures may exist in this wiki only if it's indisputable, thoroughly supported, or required.
• Verifiable: Most, if not all, content from this Wiki should be verifiable. This means that the reader should be able to confirm if the content is true, accurate, and justified, should doubts arise.
• Relevant: Articles must contain information closely related to the topic in question, without digressing or going into tangents.
• Neutral POV: situations must be discussed in a disinterested tone, giving no bias or preferences and avoiding giving unimportant issues undue weight. Avoid the use of imperative form and second person (you) when writing articles.
• Formal Language: Not colloquial. Avoid the usage of slang and conversational or casual undertones.
• Encyclopedic Language: Language must be clear and unambiguous. Avoid unnecessary verbosity. This Wiki should use simple language and sentence structure for the sake of all readers. Language should not be too vague, and sentences should not be too long.

Preferred Terminology

This wiki uses the term "AT" in favor of "AU" and other versions due to Cami stating that Glitchtale is an AT.

Images

Images with no animation should be in .png format, preferably with lossless compression.

Links

There are several rules to follow when adding links to articles.

1. There shouldn't exist multiple links to the same page in a single article. Exceptions are:
   • when two or more links are linking to a different section of the same page.
   • when one of the links is in the infobox/navbox and the other in the actual content.
2. There mustn't exist links in section headers.
3. Pages that can be linked internally must be linked as such. Further help on how to internally link pages check Help:Links and Help:Interwiki link.

Spacing

Spacing in the source code is a minor thing, however, is enforced on the wiki.

Bad	Good
*Bullet **Point ***List #Numbered ##List #Numbered #*Bullet point list ==Header 2== ===Header 3=== ====Header 4==== {{Template with named parameters |a=a |ab=b|abc=c |abcd=d}} {{Template with numbered parameters| A|B|C|D}} ;Bolded :Indent	* Bullet ** Point *** List # Numbered ## List # Numbered #* Bullet point list == Header 2 == === Header 3 === ==== Header 4 ==== {{Template with named parameters |a = a |ab = b |abc = c |abcd = d}} {{Template with numbered parameters|A|B|C|D}} ; Bolded : Indent

Easy formatting

The wiki implemented several classes for easy formatting into the wiki's CSS. Those should always be preferred over the normal methods of formatting.

Background color
.bg1																																										.bg2																																										.bg3																																										.bg4
Border color
.border1																																										.border2																																										.border3																																										.border4
Text color
.red																								.orange																								.yellow																								.green																								.cyan, .aqua																								.blue																								.purple
Fonts
Doctor W.D. Gaster (.wdgaster)																																																								Noto Sans (.Noto)																																																								Glitchtale Logo (.lorem)																																																								Determination Mono (.deter)
Border styles
.solid																					.dotted																					.dashed																					.double																					.groove																					.inset																					.outset																					.ridge

Additional classes

Class	What it produces
.help	Produces a help cursor when hovering over text. Example.
.rounded-borders	Rounds the borders of a table
.table-normal	Aligns the text in a table to the center and makes the table 100% wide
.temppadding	Adds some padding to a table

Reference and Citing

As this wiki grows, so do rumors. All content in this wiki should be verifiable, and any information must be cited with quotes, explanations in footnotes, and/or reliable sources.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is, in few words, taking someone else's work and submitting it as one's own. This includes but is not limited to copying, quoting, paraphrasing, or submitting a third party's work without proper acknowledgment or citation. As long as a quote is short and properly cited, it does not count as plagiarism.

Examples of reliable sources

• Content from within Glitchtale
• Content from Camila's Tumblr account
• Content from Camila from alternate sources

If at any point the content is proven to be false or plagiarized, a source falsified, or otherwise deemed inappropriate for this Wiki, it will be deleted immediately.

How to cite

Inline citations are placed immediately after the text it applies to. Any punctuation, excluding dashes and parentheses, is placed before the citation.

Do

Glitchtale was released on February 27.^[1]

Glitchtale (released on February 27^[1]) is an animated series by Camila Cuevas.^[2]

Glitchtale —an animated series by Camila Cuevas^[1]— was released on February 27.^[2]

Do not

Glitchtale (released on February 27)^[1] is an animated series by Camila Cuevas^[2].

Citation needed

In the case of finding questionable content not properly cited, don't delete it. Instead, add the {{Cite}} template. Before adding the template, it is recommended to try to find a source first.

When not to use {{Cite}}

• Obvious nonsense/trolling/vandalism, delete it.
• When the content is plausible but still very doubtful, search for a source instead, or delete it. If deleted, provide an adequate summary (ex: "Very doubtful – please do not revert without giving a citation").
• To digress, to "payback" another editor, or because of personal feelings related to the content.

If your work is tagged or deleted for lack of citation, provide a proper citation.

Adding references

Visual editor

On the top bar, click Insert and choose Reference. Type in the text of the citation or footnote desired. For items sharing the same reference, click the Use an existing reference button, or copy and paste the brackets directly. At the end of an article, in a section titled References, insert a reference list.

Should one desire to add a template to a reference, the use of the Source Editor is recommended; disregarding this advice might cause the Visual Editor to crash and the edit to be lost.

Source editor

Use the following code

<ref>Actual reference</ref>

Templates and links can go inside the ref tags if needed

<ref>{{Template}},[[Link]]</ref>

For items sharing the same reference, add an identifier <ref name="name"> to the first reference, then use a terminated ref tag <ref name="name" /> to the next ones. The identifier is arbitrary. An example of it is also given as:

This is a thing. <ref name="example1">Only the text from the first tag will be used as a
              footnote. The name can be anything with at least one letter, and there can be multiple
              tags with multiple names.</ref>

By adding an identifier to the ref tag, using another tag with the identifier will use
              the same reference for multiple inline citations.<ref name="example1" />

Only the text in the first tag is used.<ref name="example1">Making the text inside the reference tag
              useless.</ref>

== References ==
{{Reference-box|value=<references />}}

At the end of an article, in a section titled References, insert a references list using the terminated tag <references /> inside the template of Reference-Box.