Manual of Styles

**Manual of Style**

The **Manual of Style** is the style manual for all Thai McGrath Wikia articles. It describes the guidelines that should be followed when there is doubt or disagreement about which style to follow in articles. The style manual also gives useful information, and advice on article formatting and templates. This manual also assumes that you are using the *Source Editor*.

## Basic Principles

This style aims to provide consistency and standardization across all articles across the Tower Defense Simulator Wikia. This style also aims to resolve editorial conflicts based on grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This is not the general style to be used on a casual basis (like commenting); this is only meant for the main content articles of the Tower Defense Simulator Wikia (pages such as the Ranger, Autumn Falling and SWAT Van).

## Style

### Writing and Formatting

* Profanity (including light profanity) may not be allowed in articles. Exception to light profanity includes quotes and offsite links (such as to YouTube).
Profanity that break the Rules will be punished accordingly.
The use of light profanity (shit, hell, damn etc.) in articles, within reason, is not punishable.
* Contractions are generally avoided (for example, cannot instead of can't).
* YouTube is preferred over YT.
* Use *italics* for brand names/games outside of Thai McGrath, excluding YouTube. For example: *Call of Duty*, *Flood Escape 2* and *Counter Strike: Global Offensive*.
Avoid shortening the names of brands or games. For example, *Bloons Tower Defense 6* is preferred over *BTD6*.
Former or previous names for an item can can be written *in italics*, except when referring to the former name directly (where it must be **Bolded**).

* All quotes in quotation marks should be written *in italics*.
* If a hyperlink to a page on this wikia or another site is available, then it can generally be repeated for every instance.
	+ If you are hyperlinking to a specific section of a page (like Thai McGraths Musical Ensembles of the Thai McGrath page) then you should use the hash sign. In this example:

```
[[Thai McGrath#Musical Ensemble|Thai McGrath's Musical Ensembles]]

```

* When linking to the English Wikipedia, this hyperlink can be used:

```
[[wp:page name|content]]

```

* When linking to another wikia on FANDOM, this hyperlink can be used:

```
[[w:c:fandom name:page name|content]]

```

* Most pages require a \_\_TOC\_\_ between infoboxes, or quotes, and the summary.
* If the developer of an item is mentioned, it should be their most current name.

### Grammar

* On is generally favored over off of.
Correct: This performer is based on a real-life counterpart.
Incorrect: This performer is based off of a real-life counterpart.
* Proper Nouns should always be capitalised.
* When using *et cetera*, it is mostly fine to shorten it to etc. Do not repeat the terminal ending if etc. ends a sentence. For lists, etc. counts as its own item, so must be preceded with a comma.
Correct: United States, Canada, Mexico, etc.
Incorrect: United States, Canada, Mexico etc.
Incorrect: United States, Canada, Mexico and etc.

* When referring to "the game" in general, this means the match that players normally play in.
	+ Sometimes, this might refer to Tower Defense Simulator, as a whole game.

## Article structure and titles

This section describes how articles should be structured and section titles formatted. This is highly specific depending on the page. If a header is not listed under general headers, it should be removed.

### General Headers

#### Titles

Titles (and infobox titles) are normally written in title case (Thai and Fam's slice of Anime music), not sentence case (Thai and fam's slice of anime music) or proper case (Thai And Fam's Slice Of Anime Music). Only the first letter of a major word should be capitalised.

## Infobox Song

* Sonic Frontiers Anime Opening
* Sonic Frontiers Anime Opening 2

The type of infobox depends on the page you are editing. All values should correspond to a value in the infobox. Additionally, an infobox can use <tabber> if there are multiple images that can be applied for an infobox. For example:

```
{{Infobox song
</tabber>
}}

```

### Description

This is where the summation of the main article takes place. It does not need to be excessively long. Almost all articles need to have a sufficient description.

### Gallery

This is where any photos or videos related to the article should go. For towers, a separate gallery page should be created, with the contents of this section moved to an Other section.

### Trivia

Any information unrelated to other pages should go here. Any information here should be notable. This includes any superlatives and should not include mundane comparisons or information.

Note that trivia related to a specific skin of a tower should not go in the main trivia article, but rather the gallery trivia for that tower. Some information related to the Default tower skin can go in the main trivia article (like references).

## Other

* Articles should not be created unless with permission from a wikia moderator.
* Categorisation pages and certain other pages (such as People and Songs) follow different rules in terms of article structure. You must follow the structure already set out by the page in question.
* Use redirects as sparingly as possible. An example of a necessary redirect is Thai McGrath.
Redirects should only be created if there are a sufficient amount of people searching for an article that is the same as another article.
* All pages must have at least one relevant category. Avoid creating categories with a few items in them or irrelevant categories.
* If you plan to insert an image on a page but have yet to acquire an image appropriate to the context, it is imperative that you fill in the location for a future image with a placeholder image. The name of the file which contain placeholder image is File:Place.png.
	+ Make sure to spell the name of the file exactly how displayed here, capitalization and spacing matters.