Cartoonia Wiki:Manual of Style



The Manual of Style outlines the editing guidelines of . It helps keep articles in their highest quality by keeping it consistent, clear, and properly formatted. These guidelines will never be unerringly perfect for every situation. However, please try your best to keep to the advice outlined in this article so others may use your edits as an example when creating and editing their own articles.

These guidelines are a summary of the most important guidelines for this wiki, but a more expansive set of style guidelines can be found on Wikipedia at the Manual of Style.

American English vs. British English
This wiki uses American English spelling and grammar. The difference between American English and other branches of English may pertain to the spelling and grammar of certain words while still having the same context.

Below are the examples of the words that have the same meaning but spelled differently, and how they should be spelled.

Formal and informal
All are written in a formal definition. Slang and non-official abbreviation should be avoided or kept to a minimum; all words must be spelled out unless otherwise subjected to but not limited to: official documentation or quotation.

Point of view
Articles are to be written third-person when editing. Instead of using "you" or "we", use "the player", or, in some cases, a character's name.

Text styling
Changing texts are very common to use, even for comments. Even though, please read the following steps carefully about using different texts for the articles.

Italicizing
Italicizing makes a text or texts appear like this. Two single quote marks (') should be added at each end of a text or texts.

For example:

Italics should be used on long works of literature, art, the title of a video game, a film, a television series, a music album, or a painting. Article titles, chapters, sections, songs, television episodes, or other types of short work should not use italics.

Italics can also be used to add emphasis when using quotes. Never italicize surrounding punctuation marks, unless otherwise directed (such as in a quote).

Bolding
Bolding makes a text or texts appear like this. Three single quote marks (') should be added at each end of a text or texts.

For example:

Bolding can be used to add emphasis, but it should not be overused in any way (such as bolding an entire section or phrase).

Capitalization
All articles are subjected to "sentence-case", in which the first initial letter of a sentence is capitalized while all letters of a word should be lowercase, unless the word is a proper noun or words that are approved to be capitalized. Unnecessary capitalization (i.e. Typing Like This or TYPING LIKE THIS) should always be avoided.

Capitalization is always used for a name of a character, place, etc. Below are the examples of the names that use correct capitalizations:
 * Names and full names of characters and people:
 * Tobroki Tokuma ThumbsUp.png, Wubbzy ThumbsUp.png and Colin Con Carne ThumbsUp.png
 * Characters, places, etc. whose name(s) have another capitalized letter in them:
 * Bulgi BunnyFunny ThumbsUp.png instead of Bulgi Bunnyfunny ThumbsDown.png
 * Names of places, locations, organizations and corporations:
 * Tokuma Residence ThumbsUp.png instead of Tokuma residence ThumbsDown.png
 * Wubbzy's house ThumbsUp.png instead of Wubbzy's House ThumbsDown.png
 * Stinky Burger ThumbsUp.png instead of Stinky burger ThumbsDown.png
 * Names of items:
 * Tara's mop ThumbsUp.png instead of Tara's Mop ThumbsDown.png
 * The Golden Rules ThumbsUp.png instead of The golden rules ThumbsDown.png

Page formats

 * ''Main article: Cartoonia Wiki:Manual of Style/Page formats