The Unwritten Rules

## Summary

This document is the comprehensive guide to everything formatting, writing and grammar wise, to help improve consistency and general quality across the wiki. These are not hard rules per say, but I'd encourage everyone to follow them to help things flow and stay consistent in formatting. Incredibly significant quality problems may be put to Pages that need working on. This page is constantly being updated.

## In Character

Pretty much any of the below changes can be completely bypassed for the sake of the pages in universe content. For example, if your Pokémon hates capital letters with a passion, go ahead and address them exclusively in lower case. If your character is dumb as shit, go ahead and misspell every word on the page. These things contribute to the page far more than adhering to grammar rules do, and as such are completely acceptable and encouraged.

## When to Capitalize

The names of individual Pokémon, the word Pokémon itself, the names of abilities and the names of moves are all proper names and should be capitalized whenever they appear, including capitalizing the second word in two word names, abilities or moves. Same thing goes for the names of buildings, people and locations.

Page names should also always be capitalized when referring to the page itself. Words at the top of charts, except for connecting words (of, is, and) should be capitalized as well.

The names of stats should be capitalized, such as Attack, Defense or Evasion.

The terms physical move, special move, status move, contact move, multi-hitting move and sound-based moves do not need to be capitalized.

## Spacing

Make sure charts are not directly touching one another top to bottom, and put a space between the bottoms of charts and the tops of text.

## Chart Formats

Anything below appearing in square brackets [] will not show up on the actual page. Triangle brackets <> are used as the placeholder, and the actual content inside should be replaced contextually. Unbracketed text will appear as is, unless it is optional and not applicable.

If any chart is too wide for the page, consider changing all of the text on the top boxes to small text, instead of regular size. This is especially useful for certain index pages and move data boxes, where the titles can be longer than the contents themselves, and unnecessarily stretch the page.

Charts only applicable to one page will not be listed.

Abilities [On Pokémon pages]

Ability Data [On Ability Pages]
 Hidden <(Pokémon name)> [Only for use on abilities with Ability Hidden Abilities. If there is one, hyperlink the Ability Hidden Abilities page over the ability text]

Applicable Pokémon [On Ability Pages]

Move Data [On Move Pages]

### Movepool Charts

Movepool charts should have no header cells, and be divided into Physical, Special and Status in that order. The pieces inside should be arranged in alphabetical order. Width is up to the author, but should try for as few empty slots as possible, and cut no words off mid-word.

## Page Formatting

Different pages should try to consistently stay in an order. However, some pages may require additional charts, placement of which will be at the discretion of the author.

### Pokémon Pages

1. Summary- The name, type, pre-evolutions, legendary status, and game introduced, if relevant. Any other vital information.
2. Lore- The Pokémon's interactions with humanity and historical significance.
3. Gameplay- Gameplay stats in the order of
	1. Base Stats
	2. Physical Movepool
	3. Special Movepool
	4. Status Movepool
	5. Abilities
4. Trivia-Anything else you may want to say about the Pokémon.

### Ability Pages

1. Summary- Name, generation introduced, if it's a signature ability and a basic description of what it does.
2. Ability Data Chart- See Above
3. Applicable Pokémon Chart- See Above
4. Trivia- Anything else you may want to say about the Ability

### Item Pages

1. Summary- Name, description of effects, summarization of limitations and special rules, location to obtain
2. Chart- Detailing how the effects of how it changes how a Pokémon operates. This varies heavily.

### Game Pages

1. Infobox- An Infobox filled with as many areas as possible
2. Summary- Basic description of the game, generation, remake status, tangential games
3. New Features- Summarize the major changes from the earlier games and link to any relevant Index Pages. This section should be heavily hyperlinked. Does not include a list of every new Pokémon.
4. Plot- The story of the game
5. Map- A picture of a map, and/or a list of locations of interest.

### Index Pages

1. Summary- Explain the need for the chart, and the first generation where major changes happened to require the chart. Provide a brief history.
2. Chart- All Index Pages are built off of one or more charts.