Editing Guidelines

A set of guidelines and tips for those who want to edit the wiki. Keep in mind that, in order to edit, users must be LOGGED ON.

## Page Formatting

### Character pages

Every character page should follow the same style in order to maintain consistency within the wiki. Here is the order you should put your headings / other information.

1. Title / Infobox
2. Introduction
3. Table of contents
4. Biography
5. Personality and traits
6. Trivia

A character's introduction should be a brief description of the character, containing the character's name as well as the person who plays them (if they are played by someone). The first time the character's name, as well as any of their aliases, are mentioned, it should be **bolded**. Names should not be bolded thereafter that.

## Infobox

When creating an infobox, make sure to fill out the information to the best of one's ability. Certain sections may be left blank if needed, such as the death date section of a character who has not yet died. Blank sections will not show up on the actual infobox.

Please refrain from putting large globs of information, like full sentences, in infoboxes. These are meant to be easy and quick to read, and should provide a brief synopsis of the character.

### Using the Right infobox

Typically the infobox provided will be self explanatory, but here's a table for each corresponding infobox template.

 Organization
 Location
 Event

### Indenting

When there is more than one subject in one section of an infobox, such as multiple aliases, make sure to separate them by using <br /> after each set of information. This will make the list easier to read.

### Linking to another page

When an event, organization, or character is mentioned within a character's infobox, make sure to place two brackets on each side in order to form a direct link to its page. This can be done within the visual editor as well as the source editor.

Here is what that would look like: [[subject name]]

Here it is in action, with the subject name being Big Boss with: Big Boss

### Linking to a page with different name

Keep in mind, in order for it to actually link to a page, the subject name in the brackets must share the same name as the page you are linking to. If the subject is known by a different name than what its page is known by, you can link it to the page while giving it a different display name by typing the pages real name followed by a "|" and then the name you want to display in the infobox.

Here is what that would look like: [[subject name|display name]]

Here it is in action, with "subject name" being Big Boss and "display name" being Naked Snake: Naked Snake

If you bracket a name that does not have a page attached to it, the word will show up red. It is generally a good idea to bracket names of people whether they have a page or not in order to avoid wasting time re-adding them later once a page has been made.

### Relationships

This is optional, but when writing the relationship status between a character and their status to another person / organization, make sure to use the </small> command. Make sure you put a space after the command and to put parenthesis around the status.

For example, Big Boss has a son named Solid Snake. To write this in the infobox, you would put under the relationship category: [[Solid Snake]]</small> (son)

Big Boss was also formerly part of FOX. This would be written in the affiliations category as: [[FOX]]</small> (formerly)

## Usage and Spelling

American English will be used as the standard in spelling, grammar, punctuation and word usage.

### Tense

When writing about events or details about a character's story, one should always use past tense. For example, use "He helped them escape" rather than "He helps them escape". It is easy to forget this, so make sure to check often if you are using the correct tense.

## Index of Tip and Tricks

### Tabbed Image Gallery

When a subject has multiple "looks", such as a character's appearance changing over time (example, Raiden), use the <gallery`>` function to create different tabs that can be selected. Usually, tab names will be of a certain time period or year. Keep in mind, tabs will not show up on mobile, but will instead be shown as the title of the image when clicked on. The code for this can be directly placed into the image section of an infobox, but it is recommended that the source editor be used instead.

Here is the code for an image gallery.

<gallery>

First image.png|First Tab

Second image.png|Second Tab

Third image.png|Third Tab

</gallery>

### Quotes

Quotes are optional and should be placed after the infobox but before the introductory sentences on a characterThe template for a quote can be found by searching in the template section under the "insert" tab or by using this code below.

{{Quote

}}