GreedFall Wiki Editing Guidelines

This page covers the guidelines editors should follow when working on the GreedFall Wiki. Failure to conform may result in your edit being adjusted by other editors, deleted, or in the most severe cases disciplinary action brought against the offending editor.

## General Editing

* All articles should be written in a formal but clear manner. Avoid speculation and complicated writing.
* For the purposes of the protagonist's perspective you may use "De Sardet", "they", "one", and "the player character". Avoid using "I", "we", "you", and "the player" except when writing about gameplay, in which case "you" and "the player" are permitted.
* As *GreedFall* uses various wordings for specific topics (such as "Natives" vs. "Islanders" vs. "Yecht Fradí"), editors are free to use any option that they are comfortable with using. Similarly, some nouns in the game have inconsistent usage of diacritics (é,á,ô,ñ,etc). These are also optional, but remember that sometimes consistency is key.
* Use full sentences.
* Linking to other pages should only be done the first time the related term appears on a page and subsequent appearances in tables/infoboxes and lists.
* Be courteous to other editors. If you feel that something someone put could have been worded better, leave a comment on their talk page or in your edit summary explaining that. The worst that can happen is bad blood between editors for some perceived attack.
* Do not insult, threaten, or belittle other editors.
* Edit-warring is frowned upon. If two or more editors disagree over an edit, please ask a Patroller, Content Moderator, Administrator, or Bureaucrat to look into the situation and arbitrate it. However, a staff member should never arbitrate over an edit war or conflict they are involved in.
* Editors are not allowed to plagiarize content from other sites. Plagiarized edits will be deleted and continuous plagiarism will result in a ban.

## Language

* American English is the preferred English variant to be used on this wiki. "Slang" is not acceptable.
* Use emphasis sparingly.
* Write in the present tense except when referring to events that have already happened in the game.
Example: In the article Kurt, "He trained De Sardet and Constantin in combat and travels with the two cousins from Sérène to Teer Fradee."
* Avoid over-capitalization. Words should only be capitalized if they begin a sentence or are a proper noun, even if in-game capitalization conflicts (except when referring to in-game statistics such as Talent). Species names remain un-capitalized.
* Bolding words should generally be reserved for highlighting the name of an article the first time it appears on the page.
Example: In the article San Matheus, "**San Matheus** is the westernmost region of Teer Fradee, dominated by Theleme."
* The names of in-universe publications and real-world games should be italicized, except when the name is bolded in the case of the above guideline.
Example: In the article GreedFall, "The world of *GreedFall* is a fantasy styled after seventeenth century Europe."
* In-game spelling is preferred over correct spelling, except in the case of improper capitalization.
* End quotation marks are always placed after a period.