Fae Tales Verse Wiki: Editing Guidelines

The following are editing guidelines that the Fae Tales Verse wiki follows. If anything is unclear, please contact one of the wiki's administrators or use the discussion page.

## Introduction

If you create a new page that doesn't fit somewhere, please add a hyperlink to the article on the World page. As always, don't forget to add any other links within the text that you think others may find useful. If you see a character who is missing, feel free to add them to the list of characters on the Characters page, with a hyperlink to their page (most at this point should go in the Extras section, where they're organized alphabetically). The same is true for the Settings and Species pages.

If you add any quotations, please also footnote them with a citation.

If you wish to write about AUs, please limit that information to the AU's page. Do not include that information on general character/setting/world pages (e.g., The Raven Prince's character page would only contain information about his canon persona; his *The Lone Wolf* persona should be contained in pages specifically for that AU).

For help with editing, see fandom university, search through the help communities, or contact a fellow editor. Both admins and all other active editors are on the Fae Tales Discord, so we can easily be reached there.

## Writing Guidelines

### When to edit

You are welcome to edit whenever you see an article that needs improvement, or when you want to create a new page or article. It can be for something as simple as a spelling or grammar mistake, or to increase uniformity on the pages, or to add content (remember to reference your sources if you are adding quotes or speculative information from Pia). However, please be circumspect when editing any templates, or infoboxes, and consider consulting an administrator if you want to make any major structural pages. Adding pages that follow the structure of pre-existing pages is welcome. Removing large amounts of content is discouraged, and generally against the spirit of Fandom Wiki.

### What tone to use

Tone is not expected to be academic, but some formality is preferred.

### What spelling to use

As the Fae Tales Verse is written in Australian English (closest to UK English), and people editing this wiki are from all over the world, both British and US English are accepted. Please refrain from editing articles to change them from UK English to US, or US English to UK, as they are still easy to understand, and one form of English is not better or more accepted or superior than the other.

### When to use the edit summary

Whenever you have made a change to an article. Please tick the 'This is a minor edit' box when you're changing grammar or spelling, or adding correct hyperlinks. Explanations are not necessary in cases like this, though you're welcome to leave them. If you are adding content, please use the edit summary box to explain what you have changed. If you are undoing a user's previous edits and they are significant, please leave a detailed summary as to why.

### When to use spoiler tags

At this stage the Fae Tales Verse wiki uses no spoiler tags for any of its content, and you do not need to use them.

### Citation Formatting and Use

When sourcing the actual *Fae Tales* canon: not\_poignant. "[Book name]." [*Series name, if one exists, in italics*]. *Archive of Our Own,* [Day of publication] [Month of publication] [year of publication]. [HTML link]. Chapter [#] [: Chapter name, if one exists].

If a story is one chapter, no chapter # is required. This uses a slightly modified version of recommendations from Ao3 for increased accessibility to specific chapters.

Examples:

not\_poignant. “There Are Flowers.” *The Fae Tales Verse - canon extras. Archive of Our Own,* 12 January 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/3166064.

not\_poignant. “As Green as the Ragged Grass.” *Fae Tales - AUs, Oneshots and More.* *Archive of Our Own,* 7 August 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/15596679/chapters/36211611. Chapter 1.

not\_poignant. “The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 6 September 2018. https://archiveofourown.org/works/12036105/chapters/37093806. Chapter 28: Like Batteries.

Unless you are rewriting text (at least in summary format), it should be in quotes, and even if you are summarizing rather than directly quoting, it should always be cited. If you are quoting something but cutting out parts of the the quotation (e.g., 'The boy ran up the blue hill covered in raspberries before visiting Emma' > 'The boy ran up the hill . . . before visiting Emma') you can simply put in an ellipses over the cut text. Simply cutting out a segment of a quotation is not usually the same as summarizing. When you replace a word in a quotation (e.g., 'The boy spoke with her' > 'The boy spoke with [Emma]'), simply use square brackets around the replacement text. Only replacing a couple words in a quotation also does not usually count as summarizing.

### Formatting Guide for various terms

A list of terms that should be spelled like so, with the same capitalization (unless in certain cases like at the beginning of a sentence, where the first letter should be capitalized, or as a title, where often the first letters of all words are capitalized). These spellings have been chosen by the number of times they appear in the canon and canon extras, as well as recent usage, such as in *The Ice Plague*.

* An Fnwy estate
* Aur forest
* blood-oath
* each uisge (except in the case of spelling Augus Each Uisge's name, or referring to specific incarnations of each uisge)
* glashtyn (except in the case of spelling Ash Glashtyn's name, or referring to specific incarnations of glashtyn)
* human-form
* hybrid-form
* King-in-Waiting
* marid-djinn
* Soulbond
* true-form
* Queen-in-Waiting

## What pages should not include

### Speculative content without sources

Sometimes Pia Foxhall - the author of the Fae Tales Verse - is known to talk about worldbuilding content outside of the canon writing. Please only add this information when you're able to source it, and be circumspect, as the author themself has said these speculations are not officially canon until they're written into the canon. Speculative content on the future of plots, or character development, is discouraged.

### Personal comments

Please use the relevant talk page, or the discussion section, if you have personal comments to make. Some personal comments in the edit summary box are okay, as these are not shown on the main page.

## Minimum standard for pages

### Character pages

Character pages are encouraged for all named characters. Please see pre-existing character pages for a sense of the encouraged structure that already exists.

### Settings pages

Settings pages are encouraged for all named settings. Please see pre-existing settings pages for a sense of the encouraged structure that already exists.

### Species pages

Species pages are encouraged for all named species. Please see pre-existing species pages for a sense of the encouraged structure that already exists.

### Other pages

For all other pages relating to events, or articles, please check similar style pages and utilise the pre-existing structure that exists.

## Images

### Sourcing

Images should be sourced whenever they are uploaded, including the name of whoever made the image, what/who is in the image, and a link to the creator's page where the image came from, if at all possible.

### Image content

* Please avoid uploading explicit images, to remain in compliance with fanwiki rules on explicit content. If you have questions over whether an image is okay, please reach out to an admin.
* Please avoid putting AU fanart on canon pages, or other AU pages. AU fanart is allowed, but it should go onto the appropriate AU page (e.g., *Falling Falling Stars* fanart would go onto the *Falling Falling Stars* page).
* It is perfectly acceptable if you wish to post your own fanart (in fact, this is preferable). If you feel uncomfortable doing so yourself, or need help posting, please reach out to an admin, either on fanwiki or the discord.
* Infobox images are meant to reflect as close an approximation of the character's canon appearance as possible, so while everyone may have their own favorite piece of fanart for a character, and everyone may interpret characters how they please, and galleries may contain images that do not use canonical character features, sometimes certain images have been chosen for that spot to better reflect a character's canonical appearance (but sometimes it's simply the only piece available), so please be mindful of this when trying to change the infobox image.

## Accessibility

Where possible, please use sub-heading 2 as the smallest heading option to help with visual readability. While images are permitted, the Fae Tales Verse series is first and foremost a written work, so images should not be selected to replace written summaries except in the case of infobox images and image galleries.

## References

1. ↑ Hellekson, Karen. “How to Cite Fan Works In Academic Contexts.” *Organization for Transformative Works*, https://www.transformativeworks.org/how-to-cite-fan-works/.