Joseph and Chandler: Artist Mayhem Wiki:Style manual

This is a guide on how to properly format, edit, and create pages on this wiki. This guide hopes to reduce poor-quality pages or edits and keep the pages of this wiki consistent with each other. If something on a page violates these guidelines, don't be afraid to fix it. Although many of these guidelines are not listed on the rules page, they may still be enforced as if they were rules, which means warnings or even blocks may occur if they are violated.
For some help with programming and wikitext, you can view the Help:Wikitext or Help:Formatting text/instructions pages on Community Central.
If there is a gap in this style manual, you may use Wikipedia's MoS for reference, but be aware that some guidelines listed here may contradict those shown on Wikipedia.
(Please note that this may make the assumption you are using Source Editor and that it is recommended you edit on a computer rather than a mobile device.)Style Manual
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#	Title 	Description 	Examples
1	Language 	All pages must be written in American English. Writing words in British English out of habit won't be punished but will be fixed. Formal language is expected to be used; informal language and slang should be kept to a minimum. Writing in other languages should also be avoided. 	
Favorite over Favourite
Color over Colour
Apologize over Apologise
Travelled over Traveled
This is a formal and grammatically correct sentence.
dis es totez formel and gremertickly corect sentence dood
[NAME] is a sky created by [CREATOR].
[NAME] es un cielo creado por [CREATOR].
[NAME] is a sky created by [CREATOR]. ([NAME] es un cielo creado por [CREATOR].)
2	Third Person 	Always write in the third person. Avoid writing in the first or second person. Avoid using first-person pronouns like "I" or "me" or second-person pronouns like "you" or "your." Please also avoid adding notices (whether hidden or not), including your or other editors' usernames. 	At the end, Faker Sky mauls Skyblue to death in front of NuSky and Skychi.At the end, Faker Sky mauls Skyblue to death in front of you.
3	Profanity/Swearing	Avoid swearing in articles. While yes, this wiki is for a mature audience, swearing when there is no need to is unnecessary and looks unprofessional or even rude and offensive. Exceptions apply in some cases, like if there is profanity in the name of the character (such as with Shitblue). Do not add slurs to pages. If part of a quote or image, the slur(s) must be censored. It is against FANDOM's community guidelines to have uncensored slurs in an article, and it is extremely harmful in general. 	She stole his soda, making him angry. Soon after, a terrible situation occurred.She fucking stole his soda, pissing him off. Soon after, a shitty situation occurred.
4	Bias 	Avoid biased writing. All articles should be as neutral as possible. It is important to maintain neutrality and avoid including personal opinions or subjective statements. This wiki is supposed to be informational and should contain factual information. Please be especially careful when writing about characters with controversy surrounding them. 	Billy has said he dislikes blueberries.Billy is an awful person! He hates blueberries! He should be punished for this abhorrent behavior.
5	Quotes 	When writing down a quote, most of the above can be disregarded. In most cases, quotes should be kept as-is without modification, besides the addition of [sic] in some cases, or a translation in some cases where the quote is in a language that isn't English. 	"Um, yes I am real sky, i am a very authentic true sky, stop all question s please now thanks [sic]""Yes, I am the real Sky. I am the authentic and true Sky. Please stop all the questions now. Thank you.
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#	Title 	Description 	Examples
1	Bare Minimum 	
*All pages must have at least one image, and the image can't be from a character creator, edited from someone else's art, or edited from a sprite.
*All pages must have at least 1,000 bytes. The byte count can be checked by hovering over the kebab menu and clicking "View history".
*All pages must have a leading section/article summary, which should contain the character's name (in bold), the character infobox, their creator, and their owners (Both current and former owners), with either links to their accounts or their name bolded (Please do not bold the owners' names if there is a link). More information about the character may be added as well, but this is optional.
*All pages should have an appearance section. Read "Appearance" under Section Order for more information on the section.	x
2	Page Structure	Pages should be formatted in a specific way so they can be consistent with other articles. It is recommended to reference other high-quality articles when creating your own. See the examples for good articles to reference.	
*Joseph
*Chandler
*Derek
*Oliver
*Denson
3	Section Order 	The following is a list of sections and other elements that may be added to an article. Besides what's mentioned in the Bare Minimum, all of these are optional but should be added when applicable.
===Notices===
The notice templates should be put above everything else. They should be put in the following order:
*Content Warning
*Controversial arc
*Major Spoilers
*Outdated
*Candidate for Deletion
*Stub
*Proofread
*Long
*Distinguisher ("Not to be confused with")
Remember to fill out the reasons why the template is on the page. This is especially the case for the CW, Controversy, and Delete templates.
Other text notices can be added after the leading section/article summary before other sections. They should be on a separate line from the rest of the leading section/article summary, bolded, and in parentheses.
===Infobox===
The infobox is a quick summary of information about a character, similar to fact sheets or sidebars found in magazine articles. The following should be kept in mind for infoboxes:
*Putting "N/A" (Or similar words) should be avoided and may be removed.
*In the "appeared in" section, avoid putting unofficial, fan-made, or unapproved appearances.
*For putting multiple images, use <gallery>. Like below:
{{Character
|image=<gallery>
Example.jpg|Current
Example.jpg|Old
</gallery>
}}
===Leading section/Article summary===
This contains basic information about the Sky. See Bare Minimum.
This should be put below the infobox, not above it.
===Appearance===
This section describes the physical appearance of a character as well as alternate appearances (if applicable), such as their manifest form or alternate outfits. This section is useful for people who rely on screen readers.
For alternate appearances, a subsection should be used. In some cases, like with O!Sky, many alternate appearances with old versions may be separated by a tabber.
===Personality===
This section describes the personality of a character. This describes how the character acts and the characteristics they have.
===Biography/Story===
This section describes the character's biography and story. Can be used to describe the character's past or what happens to them in the events of a mod that is canon to their story.
===Powers/Abilities===
This section describes the powers and abilities a Sky has.
Each power or ability should have its own subsection. Powers and abilities should not be in a bullet-point list.
===History===
This section describes the history of a character. This is not to be confused with the Biography/Story section, as this is not for the character's lore or past. This section is used for documenting information like the character's creation and the reason why they were created, how the character changed over time, ownership changes, community reception of the character, etc.
===Other (Official) versions of Sky===
Some characters may have official AUs or alternate versions of them, and this section contains information about them. Some examples of AU or alternate versions of a character may be a D-Sides AU, a Minus AU, a genderswap AU, etc.
Replace "Sky" with the Sky's actual name. For example, the section in Skyblue's article is called "Other (Official) versions of Skyblue", and the section in V!Sky's article is called "Other (Official) versions of V!Sky".
To separate each version, a tabber should be used.
===Trivia===
This section is meant to contain trivia or other information that wouldn't fit elsewhere about a character.
The trivia should be in a bullet-point list, like below:
*This is one piece of trivia.
*This is another.
**This is adding to the trivia above.
*This is even more trivia.
===Gallery===
This section is for containing a gallery that contains several images of a character. Usually, there is only 1 gallery, but if a page has more than 20 images, the art may be sorted in a tabber.
===References===
This section simply contains the references list. In most cases, nothing but a reference list should be put in this section. In some cases, however, a notice may be put up, like if there may be sensitive or inappropriate content or the creator has a DNI for certain people in place. In most other cases, however, nothing needs to be done and all references used in a page should appear here.
If help is needed for citing, see Help:Cite on community central.
Avoid adding new sections not mentioned here or naming the sections above something different.
Look at Help:Formatting text/instructions on Community Central for some help on creating sections.	x
4	Page Titles 	Avoid having more than one name for the title of the page. The most commonly used name by the owner(s) should be enough.
Fan-made names for characters should also be avoided, but in cases where they are especially popular, a redirect for the name that redirects to the character's actual name is allowed.
If a character is renamed, the page should be moved. A redirect to the new page title should be left, however.
If a character has the same name as another character, then put the authors name in parentheses besides it, to help distinguish it from other characters with identical names.	NuSkyNuSky/Skylar
Sky VEP EditionSkycho/Keithna
Faker SkyFeika
Fanon O!Sky (redirects to Mod!Sky)
Ground (CLF)CLF’s Ground
5	Links 	To link a page, you can put two brackets around the page name you want to link.
For an external link that is within the FANDOM network, put "w:c:communityname:pagename" (Replace communityname with the wiki's name and pagename with the page's name).
To link to an external website not within the FANDOM network, simply put the link in the article without any brackets (Including the "https://" or "http://").
See the examples on the right for more help for links.
(See also: Help:Links on community central)	[[Characters]] - Links the characters page. Characters
[[Characters|Skys]] - Links the characters page, but will show up as "Skys" instead of "Characters". Skys
[[Characters#S]] - Links the characters page and jumps straight to the "S" section. Characters#S
[[Characters#S|Skys]] - Combination of the two above. Skys
[[w:c:fridaynightfunking:Sky]] - Links to Sky's page on the Funkipedia Mods Wiki (You can do the above with this as well). w:c:fridaynightfunking:Sky
https://youtu.be/1as80BqQXek - Links to gameplay of Blue from NuSky + Skyverse. https://youtu.be/1as80BqQXek
 - Links to gameplay of Blue from NuSky + Skyverse, but instead of the link, it will show up as a blue "[#]". 
Blue Gameplay - Links to gameplay of Blue from NuSky + Skyverse, but will show up as "Blue Gameplay" instead of how the link actually looks. Do not add the "|". Blue Gameplay
For YouTube links, you can also use Help:EmbedVideo.
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# 	Title 	Description 	Examples
1 	Tabber 	You can copy and paste the following code to create a tabber, replacing "PLACEHOLDER" with the title of the tab:
{{#tag:tabber|
{{!}}-{{!}}PLACEHOLDER=
{{!}}-{{!}}PLACEHOLDER=
{{!}}-{{!}}PLACEHOLDER=
}}
There are other ways to create a tabber, but this is the most common way it is made on this wiki. 	x
2 	Unneccessary Templates 	Avoid using certain templates on pages that don't need them. For example, the Content Warning template should not be used on every page with even the slightest hint of maturity. 	Good and bad examples of usage for the CW template:
*Abuse of any kind
*Bigotry of any kind (Racism, queerphobia, ableism, etc.)
*Disturbing/Mature source material
*Intense gore
*Sexually explicit
*Mental illness (Unless a minor part of the character, this does not include neurodivergencies)
*Etc.
*Creator stuff that doesn't also apply to character (Such as controversy or being an NSFW artist, the former should be put in the controversy template and the latter should have a text notice in the article summary)
*Anything seen in Vs. Sky or the vanilla FNF game besides flashing lights
*Mild creepiness
*Mild gore
*Mild sexuality
*Murder (In most cases, especially if as a joke)
3 	"Funny"/"Troll" edits 	"Funny"/"Troll" edits are not allowed. It will be counted as vandalism. Such edits will be undone, and there will be consequences. 	x
4 	Bringing back or duplicating deleted/protected/banned pages	Don't attempt to bring back or duplicate a deleted, protected, or banned page. Pages are protected, deleted, and banned for a reason. If you want to edit a protected article, ask an admin to do the edit on your behalf. 	x
5 	Non-Canon Information 	Don't put non-canon information about a character on the page. For example, if one Sky is friends with another character, but it's only canon for one of the characters and not the other, only put that they're friends on the character it's canon for. 	x
6 	Art Credit 	Specify who created the art for a Sky if it was not created by the Sky's creator. Crediting an artist's art is important, so please do this even if the artist has a signature or watermark, and especially if they don't. 	x
7 	Character Names 	In most cases, a character's most common nickname should be used rather than their real or full name. Their real or full name should be in the leading section and the infobox, but you can use the name they normally go by in every other case where their name is used in the article. 	SkyblueRosamaría Blue
8 	Sandbox 	If an editor is still not confident in their editing abilities, or perhaps they want to start working on a page for their Sky but don't want to make it an actual page immediately, they can use a sandbox. 	x
9 	Using Discord image/file links as citations 	In Q4 of 2023, Discord changed the way file links work, making them expire after 24 hours when linked outside of the Discord client. Unless you can put up with copying and pasting a new link every 24 hours, it is recommended to use an actual filehost such as Imgur or Catbox. 	x
10	Art by other notable Skyverse creators 	When adding fan-art of a Sky in their gallery, only add fan-art from notable creators or other people involved with the character, such as voice actors. "Notable creators" refers to people whose Skys are featured on the front page, or made popular FNF mods related to Sky.The only exception is if the creator of a Sky requests a specific fan-art to be included, or if they add said fan-art themselves.	Notable creators include:
Page specific
*Art by people who are officially associated with the Sky, your adding art to, such as voice actors.
*Fan art that’s requested of the Sky’s owner to be on the page, or fan art put by creator of the Sky themselves, on the page.
Various pages
*Art by other creators/owners (Former or not) of front page Skys.
*Art by other creators/owners (Former or not) of Official Non-Sky Characters, such as Brandon, Cloud and etc.
*Art from creators of popular Skyverse mods, using the following list. (Bbpanzu who made Vs. Sky), (Art by the various artists of the Official Skyverse mod), (Art by the various artists of Sky Remanifested), (JeremiahAnimates who made Skyverse Saga Legacy), (SoniverseU, the main artist for the Ski Sings for You! mod).
11	When in doubt, ask! 	Even with the style manual, sometimes users may not fully know how to edit or may not know how to handle something specific. If, at any point, a user is unsure, they can ask an administrator. 	x
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