Editing Guidelines

As our community is still growing and not so big yet, the chances of our articles getting messed up keep increasing. A lot of the rules regarding editing has been covered on the Rules page, but we would like to emphasize more of that here.

## General

* Please use correct grammar. People reading text with poor grammar is similar to a reading a language you've taken a couple lessons on.
* Don't use abbreviations that are unrecognized by people. However, common units like cm (centimeter) or kg (kilogram) are allowed.
* Please use the correct genders. For example, TapZzee's PC has an unknown gender, so using "it" would be the correct use.
* No biased edits or assumptions. An example of a biased edit would be saying "If Levi is your favorite character, people will think you're weird". An example of an assumption is saying that "TapZzee's gonna get a Gaming PC soon".
* Don't add pointless trivia. It's better for a page to not have a trivia section rather than contain a fact that is painfully obvious to anyone with a mind.
* Please link the whole word if you are linking a plural noun. This looks better for the article, makes short words more clickable, and also, why would you not?
* When linking a page, link it only once on the page, unless readers only look at one section of the page.
* Please use formatting when creating pages. Using headers, subheaders, identation or bullet points to organize the information. Use tables, tabbers or infoboxes to spice it up.
* Always bolden up a page's title.
* If you quote a description from TapZzee's videos, make sure to include everything word to word.
* Remain objective. Avoid stating anything that could have different opinions.
* Write from a 3rd Person POV. Avoid using pronouns like "I", "we", us", you" or "your" unless they are absolutely necessary.

## Adding/Removing Categories

While categories will help organize the wiki to look better, please be careful of what categories you add to certain articles. Follow these guidelines to ensure that a certain page indeed belongs in the category you added.

1. Make Categories **General**- A nonexample of this would be creating a category called "Levi", as this is too specific. A better option would be creating a category called "Characters" and adding the Levi page to it.
2. Category Size- A category is meant for holding many pages. If you find trouble adding multiple relevant pages to the category, consider changing it as it may not work out.
3. Only add relevant pages to categories.

## Creating Pages

It is important to understand the different criteria to determine whether a page should be created.

1. Avoid too specific pages. Pages are meant to hold lots of information, and thus should remain general.
2. Avoid overly general pages.
3. Do not create meaningless/useless pages.
4. Do not use pages for comments, remarks or blogs.
5. Move pages only when necessary.
6. Avoid creating copy pages.

## Examples of Poor Editing

### Grammar Mistakes

#### Incorrect Punctuation

i waS outsiDe wHen all of a suDden, tapzZeEs mOm was hitTiNg hiM? I dont knOw why? tHey ignOreD me!

##### Explanation

Use periods, commas and the punctuation correctly.

#### Incorrect Spelling

i swa uotdesi nehw lal fo a ddusen, patezezs omm saw hitingt mhi? i ondt wonk wyh? yeht oregnid em!

#### Incorrect Tense

I were outside when all of a sudden, TapZzee's mom were hitting him. Me don't known why. Them ignored I.

#### Run-on Sentences

I was outside, when all of a sudden, TapZzee's mom was hitting him, and I don't know why, and they ignored me.

##### Explanation

Don't squish several clauses into a long sentences. Seperate them by a period.

#### Capitalization

i was outside, when all of a sudden, tapzzee's mom was hitting him. i don't know why. they ignored me.

##### Explanation

Capitalize the "i" or the first letter of a word starting a sentence.

#### Subject-Pronoun Agreement

TapZzee is a gamer who likes to play video games on their PC.

##### Explanation

TapZzee is singular, but "their" is PLURAL. Replace it with "his". If you don't know the person's gender, use "his/her".

### Content Mistakes

#### Unorganized Information

TapZzee goes to Max's house to play Cricket with him. Also, Max lives nearby TapZzee. Max is one of TapZzee's friends, like I just said.

##### Explanation

You should start off by saying that Max is one of TapZzee's friends.

#### Irrelevant Information

Max is one of TapZzee's friends. Max likes to play cricket with TapZzee. And yeah, cricket is a game where you play with a bat and a ball. A cricket bat isn't a baseball bat but a bit rectangular. A ball is round.

##### Explanation

You are covering way too much info that's supposed to be on other pages or isn't even supposed to be in pages at all.

##### Explanation

In this quote, I don't know much about him.

#### Overdetailed Information

Max is one of TapZzee's friends. He is always happy and judging by his height, he's younger than TapZzee. His mouth is curved to the left while smiling. Since he has yellow hair, he is possibly the twin brother of Ben from Axzyte, and probably adopted too.

##### Explanation

The information is too wordy and unnecessary.

##### Explanation

The statement isn't confirmed, and it's considered vandalism.

#### Theories

Max and Ben are probably the same person because they both have yellow hair. In the TapZzee and Axzyte collab video, Ben is just a speed mirage of Max because Max and Ben are the same person, and the speed mirage of Max might have had plastic surgery.

#### Assumptions

TapZzee will collaborate with Leo Kun after Axzyte.

##### Explanation

Unless this is confirmed, don't assume things.

#### Biased Edit

If you think Max is better than TapZzee, you're weird.

##### Explanation

First of all, this is unnecessary, Second, you don't know what people think of you for thinking that.

#### Wrong POV

You were outside when all of sudden, TapZzee's mom started hitting him. You didn't know why. They ignored you.