Undertale Wiki:Manual of Style
The purpose of this manual is to create guidelines to help uniformize content across articles in Undertale Wiki and Deltarune Wiki. You do not need to read it before editing—you can simply jump into editing and take other pages as examples of what to do (and not to do). However, if you've been around for long enough, it would help other editors if you went through this manual to understand what the formal standards are.
The guidelines in this manual are enforced, and this manual should be referenced when solving editing disputes. You will not get in trouble for not following these guidelines, but your edits may get reverted if they go against established standards. That said, the purpose of the wikis is to provide useful Undertale and Deltarune information to the players, and no standard can change that. Therefore, if you find that this manual is preventing you from making the wiki great, please open a discussion about it to get it changed.
This manual is split into several distinct chapters, split across different pages:
- Language: General guidelines about the language and terminology used on the wikis. What words to use, what punctuation to use, how to name articles...
- Verifiability: Wiki content should be true, but more importantly, it should be verifiable. Unverifiably true statements may be just as likely to get removed as verifiably false statements, so this manual explains how to maintain verifiability of statements on the wiki.
- Formatting: This manual goes into how wikitext on the wiki should be formatted to maintain consistency across different articles. It doubles as a guide on formatting tricks, so read this if you're confused about what some wiki-specific formatting trick does.
- Layout: Wiki articles should be consistently structured for ease of navigation. This manual defines the standard layout of different types of articles and what sort of content goes into which section.
- Links: Links are the most important navigational aid on the wiki, so this manual discusses where they should be placed and where they should point.
- Files: Wiki articles are best when accompanied by images and other files. High quality files mean high quality articles, and therefore this manual describes how to upload and use files on the wiki.
- Templates: Templates are a way to reuse functionality and design across the wiki. They are largely hidden from regular editors, but important in making the editing experience better. If you're editing or creating templates, check out this manual.
- Categories: Categories are an easy way of grouping information and navigation. This manual describes how categorization and category description pages work.