Super Baxter Wiki:Manual of Style

The ***Manual of Style*** is a style guide for articles on the Super Baxter Wiki. Please read through the policy below to familiarize yourself with common practices and rules. If you have a question, suggestion, or a complaint, please post them on the talk page. Please do not introduce or alter guidelines on this page without consensus.

## Article titles and etc.

### Article titles

* Titles can start with The, but cannot have a or an in the beginning. (Ex: The Great Sider War).
* The first letter in an article's title should be capitalized.
* The titles of articles about individual characters should be the name by which the character was most commonly known, with later names preferred to earlier names, and full names preferred to partial names or nicknames. Titles, such as military ranks or titles of nobility, should be omitted.
* Articles about planets should use the planet's name as a title.

### Section headings

* Capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest in lower case.
* Section names should not explicitly refer to the subject of the article, or to higher-level headings, unless doing so is shorter or clearer.

### Linking to sections

* When linking to a section, as a courtesy, go to that article's section and leave an editor's note to remind others that the title is linked. List the names of the linking articles, so that if the title is altered, others can fix the links without having to perform exhaustive searches.
* As well, consider a preemptive measure to minimize link corruption when the text of a heading changes by inserting an `{{anchor}}` with the old name with which to link to that heading section.

### Layout

All articles should conform to the following basic layout:
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* *Body*

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#### In-universe

##### Characters

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* Appearance
* Personality
* Biography (Series)
* Video games
* Transformations
* Techniques
* Fusions
* Major battles
* Voice actors
* Other media

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##### Places and objects

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* Description
* History
	+ Series
	+ Movies
* Video games
* Other media

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##### Techniques and transformations

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* Description
* Usage
* Variations
* Video games
* Other media

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#### Out-of-universe

##### People

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* Description
* History
* Other work

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##### Arcs

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* Summary
* Characters
* Major events
* Major battles
* Quotes

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## Canonicity

In in-universe sections, there are several sources of information that can be used. They are arranged in order of authoritativeness. If a more authoritative source directly conflicts with a less authoritative source, the more authoritative source is used, and a separate side note should be made about the conflict. If a less authoritative source includes information that was absent in more authoritative sources but that does not directly conflict with those sources, that source is used and a note should be made about the omission in the more authoritative sources. The usable sources, in order of authoritativeness are as follows:

1. *Super Baxter* material written by Baxter Ewers
2. Video games made by Baxter Ewers

## Naming convention

The following order of preference is used for names referring to characters, techniques or places. The first name on the list should be used if available. If not, preference shifts to the second choice, and so on.

1. English title (e.g. Gunthxter)
2. Official English video games
3. Other English authorized guides
4. Official English website URLs and code

## Family connections

Within the family connections portion of character infoboxes, this basic structure should be applied. There should be the name of the character followed by the relation in parenthesis. The relation within the parentheses should not be italicized.

If there are family connections that are not applicable, such as an unknown mother, then relation should be skipped and order continued as followed.

* (*Alternate timeline counterpart **(if applicable)***)
* (*Father*)
* (*Mother*)
* (*Brother*)
* (*Sister)*)
* (*Brother-in-law*)
* (*Sister-in-law*)
* (*Grandfather*)
* (*Grandmother*)
* (*Husband, Wife, or significant other*)
* (*Father-in-law*)
* (*Mother- in-law*)
* (*Son*)
* (*Daughter*)
* (*Son-in-law or adoptive son*)
* (*Daughter-in-law or adoptive daughter*)
* (*Grandson*)
* (*Granddaughter*)
* (*Cousin*)
* (*Mentor*)
* (*Student*)
* (*Fusee*)

The appearance of alternate timeline counterpart characters calls for a specific order in which to approach editing. Editors should follow this basic structure.

* Connections between normal characters and alternate timeline characters should only be listed if the original connection existed before the events leading to the timelines' divergence.

## Dates

The use of the official year it happens in should be used in correlation to any dates given.

* For example, Baxter and Drasine were born in 1999

## Trivia

Trivia should be accurate, interesting, not fundamental to the body of the article, and preferably little known. Character comparisons should be avoided.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ This section describes work that does not relate to Super Baxter. If present, it should be kept brief.