Manual of Style

This article is the **Manual of Style** of the Waddle Lounge Wiki. It is recommended that it should be fully read before editing. Take note that it can be edited, and new rules might be added.

## Grammar

* All mentions of game and TV show titles should be *italicized*. Waddle Lounge should always be written as *Waddle Lounge*. You can italicize by adding '' at the front and back of the game title. If you use punctuation, it should not be italicized.

Example Usage:

```
''Waddle Lounge''
```

* Avoid using slang or abbreviations, unless the title is officially abbreviated.
* Do not capitalize every word in a sentence. Do also capitalize conjunctions, prepositions or definite articles unless it is capitalized by the game.
* Make sure to use punctuations at appropriate times. This includes commas, full stops and apostrophes.
* When adding dates, include it in order like this:
	+ MM DD, YY

Example Usage: March 11, 2020

* + Take note not to use an ordinal indicator.

## Titles

* Titles are usually in singular form. Write them in plural only when the title is officially plural.
* Titles must always be an official one, as the wiki is meant to be factual.

## Templates

### Amboxes

* Article message boxes are always found on the top of an article.
* If an article has no infobox, separate the ambox from the first sentence of the article like this:

```
{{Hello There}}
Welcome to my userpage!
```

### Disambiguation Texts

* If an article is part of a list of a disambiguation page, you should insert the template between the ambox and the infobox like this:

```
{{Rare}}
{{DisambigText|Article (disambiguation)}}
'''Welcome to my userpage!
```

### Infoboxes

* Infoboxes are the third template in the article that should be used. Place them under the disambiguation text templates. If it does not have that or the ambox, this should be at the top.
* Make sure every field is answered. If there is no answer to the field, type N/A.
* Do not add File: in the image field.
* |title or |title1 should only be used when the article has a parenthesis.
* Make sure there are spaces between the field, '=', and the words after it.

Always lay infoboxes like this:

```
{{Custom}}
{{ItemInfobox
}}
The '''WL Party Hat,''' also referred to as the '''Beta Hat''', is a custom [[Head Item]] in ''[[Waddle Lounge]]''. It can be obtained at the [[Town]] during the [[Beta Test Party]].

```
DO NOT lay infoboxes like this:

```
{{Custom}}

The '''WL Party Hat,''' also referred to as the '''Beta Hat''', is a custom [[Head Item]] in ''[[Waddle Lounge]]''. It can be obtained at the [[Town]] during the [[Beta Test Party]].

```

### Navboxes

* Navigation boxes are always the last part of the article. This is mainly used to navigate to other related articles.

## Text

* Most articles should have a text describing the topic before the readers read the sections.
* This comes after the infoboxes.
* Always bold the word that is the article name. Do it only for one word, and don't do it for every word you see.

## Article tables

* Article tables should always use "wikitable sortable" or just "wikitable".
* There should always be a space between {| and class.
* Do not add |+ or |- before {| class="wikitable sortable" as they are useless codes.
* Here is an example of how an article table is laid out.

```
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Catalog
!Available from
!Available until

Take note this is just an example. Don't you dare copy the exact table and put it in some random article. This is how an article table is normally made. The '!' bolds the heading of the table. '|-' creates a new row for a table. '|' is put first before the actual words.

```
Or you can do it like this:

```
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Image !! Item !! Event !! Number of Visits

```

* Both methods are fine, and have different advantages.
	+ Method 1 can be used if you want to make things easier to edit and for presentation.
	+ Method 2 can be used for a more concise script.

## Links

* You can link articles other articles by using [[ and ]] on a name of an article that already exists.
* It looks neater than linking a URL.
* When you want to solely add any letters or punctuation marks to the word, make sure they are outside the link.

Here are examples of how to link words properly:

```
[[Waddle Lounge|''Waddle Lounge]] (Wrong)
''[[Waddle Lounge]]'' (Correct)

[[Penguin|Penguins]] (Wrong)
[[Penguin]]s (Correct)

in [[Waddle Lounge|''Waddle Lounge''.]] (Wrong)
in ''[[Waddle Lounge]]''. (Correct)

```

## Sections

* The purpose of sections is to organize the article, to make it more presentable and represent what each content is about, just like how this Manual of Style is presented.
* When writing sections, write it like this ==Section==. Do not make spaces. Also, when writing the section, make sure to leave a line between the name of the section and the last line.

### History

* The history section is always the first section to be written, and is normally seen on items.
* The section will include where it is found, and what party it was available in (if applicable). It will also include when it was available to when it was not.
* If the item is still available, write ''Still available''.

### Trivia

* This section should be below all other sections.
* Things that do not belong on any sections and are fun facts to know should be listed here.
* Do not add obvious facts.

### Gallery

* Galleries should be placed below trivia.
* Images in galleries should be .png files, unless you can't find a better image.
* Make sure not to replace spaces with underscores in the file name.