Wiki Guidelines

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**Guidelines** to follow when contributing to the wiki are as follows. This includes notes on language to use and consistency.

1. **Always categorize new or uncategorized pages. If you cannot decide on a category, add it to the Soul Knight Wiki category.**
	* The Soul Knight category should hold all other content pages/categories/media under it.
		+ This excludes user pages, unless they are part of a Wiki group (e.g., Admin Team, Content Moderators).
2. **Always bold the first use of the page name, in the introductory sentence on a page.**
3. **Clearly and simply document changes in the summary box whenever you edit pages.**
4. **Add an appropriate title to images/videos when uploading them.**
	* Sprite images should be named "Sprite\_[Name]".
5. **Make sure all self-made videos are:**
	* Simple with no added music or graphics.
	* Under 10 minutes long.
	* Demonstrating the subject clearly.
	* Not self-promotional.
	* Showing at least one room cleared if it demonstrates in-game entities.
6. **Always capitalize names of Characters, Weapons, Enemies, Bosses and Skills.**
7. **If you would like to add an infobox, use the "Soul Knight \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Infobox" presets.**
	* Always use infoboxes for Weapons, Characters, Enemies, Bosses, and Mounts.
		+ For these infoboxes, please use in-game sprites with a transparent background or no borders.
8. **Follow the weapon, enemy, character and boss templates when making new pages for this content.**
	* Please ensure you add a link to the corresponding pages when mentioning "weapon," "enemy," "character" or "boss" in the introductory sentences.
9. **Attempt to use correct terms consistently throughout the wiki.**
	* Use the term "Living Room" instead of "Base."
	* Use the term "Skill" instead of "Ability" when referring to the character-specific specials.
	* Use the term "Armor" instead of "Shield," unless actually referring to Shield.
	* Use the term "Cellar" instead of "Basement."
	* Use the term "Energy" instead of "Mana."
	* Use the term "Character" instead of "Hero."
	* Use the term "Enemy" instead of "Monster."
10. **Use singular names for titles of enemy pages (e. g., Dire Boar instead of Dire Boars).**
	* Enemies that go by a plural name, such as the Baby Dragon Bros, are an exception.
11. **Use a reasonable number of links when the same word/phrase is mentioned multiple times on a page.**
	* This is usually a single link on the first mention of a word/phrase (that is not in a header) for the whole page.
12. **Make sure you include the entire word when linking to a page.**
	* For example, linking "Paladin's" to the page Paladin should look like: *Paladin's*
	Instead of: *Paladin’s*
13. **Do not link the text in a heading.**
	* For example, do not link "Buff" in "Notable Buff Effects" but rather the first occurrence of the word "buff" under the header.
14. **Write in third person.**
	* Do not use personal pronouns, such as "I," "me," "our," "we," etc.
	* Use "the player" and "the player's" rather than "you" and "your."
15. **Do not recommend characters in weapon pages.**
16. **Do not add information about Soul Knight Prequel.**
	* This wiki is dedicated exclusively to the roguelike game, Soul Knight.
	* Although Soul Knight Prequel may cover the same content as Soul Knight, the connections between the two games are not well-defined.

Feel free to leave a comment below or message Astral Torus to discuss these guidelines, including suggesting new ones.