Formatting Outlines

In order to appear uniformed, please follow these guidelines when editing this Wiki. If you have questions, suggestions, or concerns, feel free to reach out to an administrator (User:MaxmaxTK or User:Kurohaneshizumi). Exceptions can be made.

## Copyright Information

Try to use as many references as possible. Utilize MLA formatting when you can't link a webpage. If you'd like some copy/paste format, try EasyBib. You can select the media you want to cite, and then use their "**Create manual citation**" option to input the information on your own. Webpages generally don't need a lot of extra information, but if it's an abandoned page, please go through the Wayback Machine to ensure the page will be available to future viewers of this Wiki.

Pretty much all images are okay to use, so long as they are not in the work's entirety. For insistence, if you want to include a panel within the manga, try to crop the page to be just that panel. Try to use the highest quality images possible so that it can always be enlarged if necessary. DO NOT use the following:

* NSFW images
* Pirated/unpublished images
* Images of low quality/hard to see
* Images with watermarks
* Unauthorized images

## General Formatting

All books, including manga and light novel titles should be *italicized*.

Albums, including drama CDs, should also have their titles *italicized*.

Chapter titles or tracks on albums should have "quotes" around them.

Publishing companies do not need any special formatting.

If you are describing serialization and including the original anthology magazine the work was published in, please *italicize* the title of the magazine, but you do not have to treat the work as a chapter, so quotes are unnecessary—please continue to *italicize* the work as well.

Video game should be *italicized*, but board games do not have to be.

Illustrations do not often have titles, but if a title does exist, please "quote" it.

### Book Media

#### Does the light novel need its own page?

Most likely, a light novel will not need its own page since Takashima usually only participates in the illustration aspect. There's just not much to add that would warrant a full page. If Takashima has contributed to two or more volumes from the same author, or if only one volume was done, but additional materials (such as Drama CDs, anime, etc.) was made from it, it may be worth making an Author page (see that section below) or a stand-alone page. If it is a single, stand alone work, you should just add it to the Miscellaneous Light Novel Work page. Contact an administrator if you are unsure.

#### Page Title & Summary

When making a new manga or light novel page, please use the official English title as the main article's name, but in the summary starting paragraph, please immediately follow with the original Japanese in romaji, then, in parenthesis, the original Japanese in the native text followed by the translation (if at all different) in single quotes within the parenthesis. As an example, please see Mad Love Chase:

> ***Mad Love Chase***, originally known in Japan as **Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made: Mad Love Chase** (ハーレムビートは夜明けまで '**Harlem Beat Until Dawn'**)...
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Something notable should be added to describe the work to conclude. This doesn't have to numerical (ie: the first, the second, the third published manga) but can be something like, "first shojo manga," or "one issue work," or something similar. So long as it's a true statement, anything is okay. You should try to link Takashima somewhere so that readers can easily get back to her page and explore other works. You can also mention additional notable features in the summary such as original publication, or adaptations of the work.

#### Plot Summary

If the title is fully available in English in someway, please do not use a lot of spoilers in the summary. The summary should be no longer than one or maybe two paragraphs in length. If the title is unavailable in English, you may use more details to describe the plot and you do not have to worry as much about spoilers.

#### Characters

You may make a list of main characters using bullets. Try to keep the names in the main article as spoiler-free as possible, but each character's page (if one should/does exist) should be their proper name, and spoilers are okay. (See the Character Page Section for more information.)

#### Publication History

In this section, you can go into detail about the serialization of title, the creation of the tankobon or volume, and any other subsequent publication issues or reissues. You should include any information about English publication here as well. You can also include...

##### Other Versions

If the title has been published in other countries/languages, you can include them in a list here. You should use this format:

* [Language] by [Publishing Company] under [Title in New Language\*] in [Year of Publication].

\* The title should be as it appears on the cover or the publisher's list of works as is, and if a translation is necessary, can be followed in parenthesis. If the title is in a non-Latin script, you may include a romanization as well. For example: *ฮาร์เลมบีท ทะลุขีดความมันส์* (*Ḥār̒lembīth thalu k̄hīd khwām mạns̄̒*, lit. "Harlem Beat: Exceeding the Fun"). The original title is italicized, then the parenthesis contains the romanization first, followed by the translation in quotes. The translation is in quotes because it is not an official title; some translations can never be perfect, so we should never assume a translation is official.

The list should be in alphabetical order by language. Therefore, French should come before German, and Spanish should come before Thai.

#### Additional Possible Headings

##### Adaptations

If the adaption is large enough for its own page, you can still mention it on the page. Please include the following link before writing a summary of it.

> *Main Article: [Adaptation's Page Link]*
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Of course, if the adaptation is not large enough for its own page, you can include any information you do have on it in its section without a Main Article link. A summary should include basic publication/production information. If available, you may also include a Cast list in bullets and/or a Track list in bullets. If the track list is simply "Track 1", "Track 2", etc., do not list it, simple summarize with "includes 12 tracks" or something similar. Feel free to include an image of the adaptation as well.

##### Trivia

Most, if not all pages will have a Trivia section. This should be a bulleted list.

##### Gallery

Again, most if not all pages will have a Gallery section. This can include additional official images of the work, including additional volume covers, other language covers (multiple volume works should be grouped together, if possible), adaptation images that don't have their own pages, and easily available serialization images (such as cover illustrations done for magazines).

### Author Page

If an author has worked with Takashima two or more times, you can make an Author page for them. The summary should (as always) start with their name. Please use the Family name and then the Given name in romaji. In parenthesis, you can follow it with the kanji spelling and the kana spelling in single quotes after that. Here's an example:

> ***Kitazawa Jinko*** (きたざわ 尋子 'きたざわ じんこ')...
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Complete the summary by briefly describing the type of author they are, when they began writing, and any other biographical details related to their writing.

#### First Work

All featured works should be listed in chronological order. The heading should be the name of the work, and the plot summary should follow as it might in a regular article. You can then include all the other features as previously described.

### Other Records

Takashima has done additional work which can be seen on Category:Other Works. As you can see, this includes one-shot manga, four-panel comics, doujinshi, game art, and other, various illustrations. If you would like to add something, please check with an administrator to be sure where it should go.

## References

A list of references should always come at the very end of any and all articles. If an article does not have any references, it may not deserve to be there. Administrators will reserve the right to delete whole pages if there is not supporting references for it. There does not have to be any specific format for the list.