Emmy The Robot Fandom Wiki:Manual of style: Difference between revisions

The following '''manual of style''' aims to provide a set of standards and guidelines for writing and formatting articles on this wiki.

== Page layout ==

=== Introduction ===

==== Header templates ====

''To be added''

==== Infobox ====

Articles about certain types of subjects must include an appropriate infobox: a compact template-based table showing a quick overview of pertinent information in the top-right corner of a page.

At the moment, this wiki only supports infoboxes for characters. Please refer to [[Emmy The Robot Fan Wiki:Creating a page/Character]] for information and guidelines relating to their usage. Infoboxes for other types of content may be introduced in the future.

When adding an infobox, only fill the fields with known information. For example, if you are filling an infobox for a character whose full name and age are unknown, simply leave those fields blank instead of writing "Unknown" in them.

==== Lead ====

Article text should begin with an introductory part, also known as a lead, which should provide a short summary of the article's subject. For fictional subjects, this usually means a brief description or a quick summary of their history. As per the formatting guidelines above, the lead should include the name of the article's subject, as well as its known significant alternate names, in '''bold''' in their first usage.

Leads can be of varying lengths, but strive to make them concise. If the subject of an article has so little known information about it that it can be expressed in one short sentence, the lead may essentially serve as the entire article's main body, as further sectioning will likely be redundant.

==== Table of contents ====

A table of contents is automatically generated above the first heading if an article contains four or more sections. If an article is short despite having a lot of sections, you can remove the table of contents by including <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code> at the top of the page code before the header templates. However, long articles should keep their tables of contents in order to let readers easily navigate to any section that might interest them.

=== Main body ===

The bulk of an article should consist of text typically divided into sections and paragraphs. Sections are created by adding headings and subheadings as appropriate, starting at level 2 headings (<code><nowiki>== Header text ==</nowiki></code>). Do not use level 1 headings, as those are reserved for page titles.

Articles on certain types of subjects, such as characters, have established layouts, which can be found on appropriate [[Emmy The Robot Fan Wiki:Creating a page]] subpages. Typically, articles about fictional elements will have sections describing the subject and its history first, followed by sections like Behind the Scenes and Trivia providing additional real-world context.

Sectioning should be dictated by the information available, not the other way round. For example, if there is very little or no information about a character's biography, there is no need for their page to contain a dedicated Biography section. As stated above, in some cases it can be possible for the article's introductory part to also be its main body, with little to no sectioning.

=== Addendum ===

==== Notes and references ====

''To be added''

==== Categories ====

''To be added''