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The Manual of Style describes how to edit pages following the Wiki Rules. This is called wikify (wikify, wikifying, wikified)
Articles (main namespaces)[]
Articles in the main namespace should contain an Infobox, except if there are no much information about, like the Between The Lines' episodes. If you can, add an image.
- About sources
Sources should be from non-editable sites. It mean, not wikis. References should be from independent sources, not collaborative. Articles sourcing wikis, encyclopedias, like Fandom wikis, Wikipedia, and others (including mirror sites) will be marked for improve. IMDb is acceptable, and it can be taked as reference.
- Quotes and exclamations
Use of question marks (?) and exclamation marks! Aren't allowed, except for quotes.
| “ | This is an example! How do you see it? [...] This doesn't violates the Manual of Style... | ” |
— Someone who said it
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The use of question marks and exclamation marks in texts that aren't quotes will be deleted.
This is bad
Steven Grayhm is an actor! He portrayed Liam Cullen! Do you like it?
This is good
Steven Grayhm is an actor. He portrayed Liam Cullen on Between.
- Reference style
A reference should be added with the <ref>[...]</ref> tags. You can use templates like {{cite web}}, {{cite news}}, and others. If you want to make a group different to the standard style, like adding notes, you can use the <ref group="name">your text goes here</ref> (that makes this:[name 1]). For add it in another place that isn't the References section, you can make a section called p, eg ==Notes== and add the code <references group="name"/>. Here's an example:
Notes
- ↑ your text goes here
- Sections
Sections (== Your section name ==) should be added when it is from another topic that the last section was of. A good use of sections should be one of backstory and then description wherein backstory is how the character lived before The Virus, and description is what's about the character and not necessary before the virus. When a page is talking about the same topic but not related, you can use the subsections, such as === === and others more.
User pages[]
A user page is a non-encyclopedic page where the user who owns the page can edit it. Some rules before creating your page is also applied.
- About
You can talk about what wikis are you contributing to, languages you speak... but no promotional text (like Join my wiki) link to blogs, websites, social network profiles, like links isn't accepted. This type of pages shouldn't be with a warning of wikify, instead should be nominated for deletion. Transcluding pages isn't allowed.
- What are allowed
- Transcluding templates from Community Central
- User pages with short content, like "Hi"
- Something that doesn't violate the deletion policy
Forum[]
Forums, basically, are for talk. You can talk about something, but in their relative topics (I want to see for what is each topic) you can use WikiForum, also that using it it isn't necessary to type your signature, also reacting a +1 is allowed, reply, etc. The namespace Forum talk just is used for discuss the relevance of the forum.
References[]
Since 28 July 2021, in a discussion, cast and media service-related articles should have references. If some page of these type doesn't has references, it should be marked for wikify. Before that, there was another discussion that stablishes every page should be with original content (without Wikipedia contents). We're currently working in making original-text articles.
Conclusion[]
Pages violating the Manual of Style should be added with the {{Wikify}} template, which produces this:
Hey, something was bad in the creation of The Virus.
This page should be wikificated following the Between Wiki's Manual of Style.