Emmy The Robot Fandom Wiki:Manual of style
- This page is a work in progress.
The following manual of style aims to provide a set of standards and guidelines regarding the style and formatting of articles on this wiki. For guidelines regarding the structure of articles, refer to the layout guide.
General
Grammar and spelling
Please take care to use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. You are not expected to be a professional writer with knowledge of all the intricacies of the English language, but you are still expected to write in a formal, clean, objective and coherent manner to the best of your ability.
Prefer to use American English, as it is the language of this wiki's main canon source material as well as the primary language of its fan community. The use of the Oxford comma is encouraged, but not mandated.
Capitalization
Use sentence case, not title case, in page names, section headers, table headers, captions, and lists. In other words, Don't Randomly Capitalize Second and Subsequent Words. Only the first word should be capitalized, except for proper names.
The terms "Nandroid", "Nandroid School" and "Botler" are to be considered proper names and capitalized accordingly.
Formatting
The name of the article, as well as any known significant alternate names its subject has, should be put in bold in their first usage on the page, and displayed as early in the article's introductory part as possible, ideally in the first sentence. For example:
- Emmy, officially designated 787-E881, is a Nandroid owned by the Delaire family.
Story titles should be put in italics, for example: Emmy the Robot, Three Nines Fine. In combination with the above guideline, the first usage of the title of a story on its page should be put in both bold and italics:
- Emmy the Robot is a webcomic created by Dominic Cellini.
Dates
When adding dates, please use the YYYY/MM/DD date format. Not only it is an easily understandable compromise between the various date formats used worldwide, but it is also useful for automatically sorting dates alphabetically should such a need arise.
Perspective
Do not mix in-universe and out-of-universe perspectives.
- "Emmy is a Nandroid owned by the Delaire family" is an example of a sentence written from an in-universe perspective.
- "Emmy is the main character of Dominic Cellini's webcomic Emmy the Robot" is an example of a sentence written from an out-of-universe perspective.
In-universe perspective
Pages for fictional elements such as characters, locations, or events featured in stories should be written from an in-universe perspective, with the exception of their Behind the Scenes, Trivia and Appearances sections.
When writing from an in-universe perspective, do not allude to the fact that the characters, objects and events described exist in a work of fiction and are observed by an audience. Avoid using phrases such as "The story follows Emmy doing...", "Emmy is shown to be..." or "We see Emmy doing...". Describe these characters and events the same way you would describe real people or events.
However, limited breaking of the in-universe perspective is acceptable in situations where it is necessary to specify which piece of information comes from where, in particular:
- When the page contains information from both canon and fanon sources, for example: "In canon, all Nandroids have blue optics, whereas in fanon, some Nandroids have green and other colors of optics."
- When the page contains information from multiple conflicting sources, for example: "In Stress Test Anon, Lulu and Anon live in a small house, whereas in Lulu the Nandroid, they live in an apartment."
Out-of-universe perspective
Pages for real-world subjects, such as published stories or real people, as well as the Behind the Scenes, Trivia and Appearances sections of pages describing fictional elements, should be written from an out-of-universe, i.e. a real-world, perspective.
Tense
Always use past tense when recapping events or biographies from an in-universe perspective. Use present tense to provide descriptions or factoids for fictional elements such as characters, locations and objects, unless the use of past tense would be preferable in the context (for example, when the subject is deceased or destroyed in their primary ongoing story, or when the description applies to the character's past).
The use of either tense is acceptable when recapping a story plot from an out-of-universe perspective, but should be consistent within the same page.
Neutral point of view
Strive to be fair and unbiased. Don't make judgements about characters being "good" or "evil", only present what is given in a story or a source. Don't make assumptions about characters or events on their pages. Any speculation or fan theories should go into the respective page's Trivia section.
Linking
If a subject has an individual page on this wiki, it should be linked to when it is mentioned in another article. In general, the subject should be linked once upon its first mention:
- in the infobox
- in the article itself
- in individual footnotes
Additionally, it is recommended that you link to the subject again upon repeated mentions at your own discretion. Use your judgement to determine if it has been long enough since the subject was last linked to warrant a new link.
Do not self-link, that is, do not link to an article within the same article, unless you are linking to a specific section or subsection of the article (for example, Emmy#Serving the Delaires).
More linking information to be added
Notes and references
To be added
Reference formatting
References should go immediately after punctuation and outside of quotation marks, with no space between the end of a sentence and a reference tag:
- This is correct.[x]
- This is not[y].
More reference formatting information to be added
Images
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