Goblipedia:Style guide

Hi this is me Sam I'm writing this

Due to a certain unfortunate chemistry with my body and my medications, I have become partially (for now) urinarily incontinent. I'm a little piss boy. I piss my pants easily. I piss my pants a lot. My pants are always soaking in pee. Sometimes I pee myself, and sometimes I don't even realize. Sometimes I pee myself from laughing, sometimes I pee myself in my sleep. Sometimes I pee myself when trying to actually pee in a toilet. The point is, I'm a little piss boy who pisses himself a lot.

Because of my piss-boyedness, and because I piss myself a lot, I have written a style guide for new content moderators of the wiki to follow when writing articles in the hopes that, just maybe, I piss myself a little less often when I read articles I haven't written.

## Overview

I like all the writing in articles to have some level of consistency between each other, basically, and am obsessed with the standard conventions of wiki formatting and writing.

For those new with Fandom or wikiing in general, all text is formatted either as paragraphs, headings, or sub-headings (for our intents and purposes). The differences in size between headings and sub-headings are not merely aesthetic, as headings and sub-headings serve specific functions. All paragraph text (the one you're reading right now) must be headed by a heading (the words "Overview" above this text) **UNLESS** it is the beginning text of an article, which will always be unheaded and directly below the article's title. All sub-headings (look at literally any article for example) must be below a regular heading, or else it's just a random sub-heading you put there cuz you felt like it. All sub-headings of sub-headings must be subordinate (in this case, smaller than) to their superior sub-heading. Luckily, Fandom numbers sub-headings as is done in webpage languages like HTML, so you know that Sub-heading 2 is subordinate to Sub-heading 1, Sub-heading 3 to Sub-heading 2, etc.; however, we generally do not subdivide a section of an article beyond second sub-headings.

The first usage or usages of a term referring to the subject of an article in its beginning paragraphs will always be in **bold**, which you will see in every single article on this wiki. Sometimes there are multiple names/terms for a subject of an article which are mentioned in the article's beginning paragraph, which are also boldened (see: Spite-muting article). I am breaking convention for the purposes of this article because it is a meta page, so do not bold anything but that specific piece(s) of text when writing actual articles.

## Internal and external links

Articles will contain internal and external references to things, **internal references** being references to things that are the subjects of articles in this wiki, and **external references** being references to information about something the wiki does not cover. Internal links are almost always required for an internal reference within a page; for example, reference to Gobcord will always be linked to the Gobcord wiki page. HOWEVER, only the first instance of an internal reference needs to be linked: If you mention Gobcord multiple times in an article, only the first time you mentioned it needs to be linked.

External links to external references are not required, but are preferred especially when referencing something not universally understood or to a degree that does not do justice to the complexities of the subject. Put yourself in the mind of the average reader of this wiki when determining whether something is universally understood or not.

Links are added to strings of text by highlighting the target text and pressing the link chain icon in the toolbar above (for visual editing), using [brackets] (for source editing), or by pressing Ctrl+K. Punctuation is never included in a link; If the word(s) you are linking are next to a period, comma, colon, quotation mark etc., make sure you are not highlighting those symbols and only the text.

Feel free to look at the source of preexisting articles to help with your own editing! I do it all the time.

### Missing citations or internal links

Like Wikipedia, some bits of information might need to be cited or internally linked but lack a source material. To denote this, "[citation needed]" or "[link article]" respectively are put in superscript (like this) and one space after the word or term needing to be cited or linked. To make text superscript, you can highlight the word or phrase and do it through the formatting menu (whose icon looks like a capital T with an arrow pointing down) in the toolbar above.

## Visual and source editing

**Visual editing** refers to elements of an article being visually re-arranged for easy and intuitive conversion into source code. This is how you will edit most articles, as it is the easiest way. Some advanced formatting, such as with images, slideshows, and tables, will require you to use **source editing** exclusively -- editing an article directly in its source coding. Fandom's built-in source is pretty intuitive (and color-coded!), so it shouldn't be too difficult, but it still can be intimidating. If you need help editing the source of an article, let me know and/or consult this help page on the Fandom Wiki.

## Language

Not only am I urinarily incontinent, but I'm also a Grammar Nazi. As a citizen of the United States, I use American conventions of English. If you are not from the US, you do not need to use this convention of written English, but you do have to use *a* convention. Most commonly, UK English is used to write English as a safe international lingua franca of sorts. Only break the standard conventions of written English when necessary, such as to discuss a fictional subject or for comedic purposes. Learn the proper uses of punctuation. If a sentence's punctuation is ambiguous or open to interpretation, that doesn't really matter, but blatant misuses of commas, colons, semicolons and what have you *will* make me piss my pants. Most likely though I'll just notice the mistake one day and fix it without saying anything lol

This article from "The University of Reading" is probably useful, but ignore when it says that commas are used for "pauses," semi-colons for "breaks" and so on. If you think of punctuation in terms of spoken language, you are going to write BADLY!!!!! THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, the Oxford comma, if you know what that is and the controversy around it, I don't fucking care about. I use it, but you don't have to.

### Numbers

All numbers fifteen and below are to be written out completely, unless they are represented using digits in the name of something or are a part of a date.

### Acronyms

Most of the time, the letters of acronyms (like "USA") are divided by periods/full stops/ellipses. We don't do that. Ever. (It's less confusing when ending sentences.)

### Tone

Tone is basically the personality of a written piece of work. Most of the time, the tone of this wiki is formal (as in, informational) with occasional informality. Pretend like you're writing an essay but about whatever you want it to be and not something lame like a book you had to read in school.

## Images

Images must first be uploaded to the wiki for use before it can be placed in a page. This is done by clicking the little photo icon in-between the link icon and the mass upload icon. When uploading an image to a page, you can search for a pre-existing image on the wiki or can upload your own. If you are writing entirely new articles, you will be uploading your own images most of the time. This process is easy and pretty intuitive, but make sure you name the image file something sensible when uploading it to the wiki so you can easily find it later. The names of images in source editing, where images are manipulated for advanced formatting, are case-sensitive and must have their names reproduced 100% correctly or else they won't work. There are two different kinds of JPEG extensions (JPEG and JPG), for whatever reason, so pay attention to those too, because the wrong one will also affect whether an image is loaded onto a page or not. Try to only upload PNGs or JPEGs. If you upload a WEBP file I will FUCKING kill you.

Captions of images do not need to be full sentences but must be correctly punctuated, all captions ending with periods. This isn't a big deal, but not having to do that myself makes me pee myself less oohhh gee I'm such a little piss boy!!! >~<

## Article protection

I'm unsure if moderators can do this, but most articles need to be protected from vandalism through the "Protect" option that can be found by clicking the three dots next to the Visual/Source editing tab in the upper right hand corner of the toolbar. Editing must be set to "administrators (you guys) only." If you can't do this, let me know please.

## Conclusion

idk ask me for help just make sure all the articles look and feel the same and we'll be good