Guidelines

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## Editing Guidelines

1. Keep information on this wiki **correct** and **accurate**. This isn't a place for headcanon, or speculation. You can make blog posts about your headcanons in the Community tab, or use the comments section on the pages to discuss speculations.
2. When writing pages, **reference** everything. You can do this by inserting a Reference after the block of text you are writing about that uses that source, writing the source (make sure that it forms a link if you are using a link), and then creating a References List at the bottom of the page. You can use Discord message links to the beginning of Red talking about the subject, twitter links, and links to the comic. See the Tahraim page for a good example of use of References. Don't just copy and paste though, try to summarise in your own words the information.
3. **Link everything**. A good web of information has many links between pages, to allow people to easily continue their path of enlightenment. You only need to link something the first time it is mentioned, but if it has been a section or two since it was last mentioned you can link it again. See Kendal for a good example of linking.
4. Use **infoboxes**. It can be unintuitive at first, but it's not too bad. A wiki page without an infobox doesn't look like a wiki page. If you need help, feel free to ask in #wiki-work in the Aurora Fan Server. When editing character infoboxes please also reference the instructions on the Optimized Character Template 1.1 page.
5. Most importantly, add information! No page is considered "complete", particularly not when there's new information just out! Use the Discord channel, the Twitter, the comic itself, the Tumblr page, and the official Lore pages. Also please refer to Word of Red to access the Searchable World Library.

Don't think of these guidelines as any kind of strict rules, just how to make your additions make the biggest difference! Any additions are welcomed. 1 and 2 are the main two that should be followed, as it can be difficult to reference something you don't know the origin for.

## Capitalization Guidelines

Naturally, proper English capitalization should be used (proper nouns, first letter in a sentence, etc). Red is very loose with her capitalization, for the sanity of editors we are implementing more consistent capitalization rules.

things that are capitalized:

* Titles and headers, connecting words like "or", "and", and "of" don't need to be capitalized
* Fantasy proper nouns, that includes names of *specific* people, primordials, places, and organizations

things that are never capitalized

* Elements, stone, fire, water, etc (unless you are referring to a primordial in which case its a name and proper noun and should be capitalized).
* Fantasy nouns that aren't proper nouns, lacrima, rune, mage, ferin, human etc.

## Referencing/Citing Guidelines

For now, as above, these are not strict guidelines, and may also be subject to change.

All information on the wiki should be based either directly on Webcomic pages, answers to questions on Tumblr or Discord, or other information given in some way directly by Red. In this vein, all information on the wiki should be traceable to some source, and referencing should ideally be standardized. These are quite close to the automatic formatting when pasting links into the visual editor from, say, MS Edge.

Additional footnotes can always be inserted as citations or alongside a reference when needed.

### **For comic pages and other pages on comicaurora.com:**

or
The Seventh Element (comicaurora.com)

### **For Tumblr posts:**

In general, these are going to be Tumblr asks. Put the first sentence of the ask, or part of the first sentence if it's too long. End the sentence with an ellipses.

### **For Twitter posts:**

Automatic formatting will likely try to just paste the entire tweet into the visual editor, so try and make sure that the hyperlink isn't too long.

### **For Discord posts:**

or

*"Only one human has ever become a god..."* to *"your boi"*: messages in #aurora-discussion in the OSP discord server (discord.com)

Notice that this reference comes in three parts.

The first is a short quote directly from the message being referenced. If the reference is attributed to multiple messages, then take a snippet from the first and last relevant messages.

The second, of the form 'message(s) in #channel', specifies the channel in which the message was sent, and is a hyperlink with a direct link to the first message sent by Red that contains information used in the wiki page. It can be attained using "Copy Message Link" by right clicking on a discord message (or using the context menu: 'More').

The third part specifies which server it came from, and links to the invite link to that server.

This ensures that any user of the wiki is able to easily access the source.

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