LAPONE:Guidelines

To provide a clear and uniform appearance at LAPONE Wiki, please read through these guidelines before making any edits.

## Administrators

* Due to the wiki's infancy, all final decisions on the LAPONE Wiki will be and are decided by the wiki administrators. That means if an admin informs you of something, you must follow.
* Do not ask wiki administrators to promote you to any special roles. These are decided by the other admins only.

## Articles

### Layout

* Pages for people generally include these main sections in this order: Biography, PRODUCE 101 Participation (only if they were a trainee under PRODUCE 101 JAPAN), Discography, Publications (or Photobooks), Works, Personal Life, Trivia, References, External Links. If a section has no available content (like discography for a trainee), leave the section out.
* Pages for groups generally include these main sections in this order: Members, History, Discography, Awards, Total Sales Count, Trivia, References, External Links. For pages about a groups not fully under LAPONE Entertainment (like ZB1, a Gallery section may also be added.
* Pages for singles and albums generally include these main sections in this order: Tracklist, Featured Members, TV Performances, Concert Performances, Song Information, Trivia, Oricon Chart Positions, Videos, References, External Links. Additional sections to be added when applicable.
	+ The order for videos in the Video section is generally split into three tabs: Official, Choreography, and Extra. The official tab has the music video and teasers, choreography has any performance videos dance practices, and extra has fan-chants or any other promotional videos.
* Pages for concerts generally include these main sections in this order: Setlist, Featured Members, Concert Schedule, Oricon Chart Positions (for concerts released on video), Trivia, Gallery, Videos, References, External Links.

### Grammar

* Proper English grammar must be used on all main articles.
* This wiki uses American English; therefore, **member colors**, not *member colours*.
* Do not use contractions unless they are part of a title.
* The names of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean origin are formatted by the surname followed by the given name. For the long *ō* sound, one *o* is used (example: Kono Junki, not *Kouno Junki* or *Junki Kono*). In general, keep the name order as the native language.
* Names of releases and other such titles are named by their Japanese titles. The long *ō* sound is formatted as *ou*. を is *always* romanized as *wo*. English words are capitalized exactly as they appear in the official Japanese title (example: **The STAR**, not *The Star*). All Japanese words are capitalized except one-syllable particles (*no*, *wo*, *wa*, *ni*, *de*, etc.).

### Kato Cocoro

* Files and pages about Kato Cocoro prior to her joining ME:I (this includes her time on PRODUCE 101 JAPAN THE GIRLS) refer to her as "Kato Kokoro" instead of "Kato Cocoro". Files and pages about her after her joining ME:I refer to her as "Kato Cocoro" instead of "Kato Kokoro".

## Files

* When obtaining image files for releases or promotional material, only use those that are uploaded on official websites (like LAPONE Entertainment and PRODUCE 101 JAPAN) and official SNS accounts (like Twitter and Instagram).
* Do not upload YouTube videos on the wiki when possible! When adding a YouTube video to a page, please use the Player template to do so.
* Images must be at a reasonable size.
* Unofficial media, like fanart and unofficial fancams, are not to be used on the wiki.
	+ The only exception is fanart on personal user pages. Those are allowed.

## References

* References are to be used when information in the article is not easily found or for additional context.
* The general format for a webpage reference contains these things in this order: link (required), language (if anything but English), website name, publication date. (example: <ref>"[link] (in language). WEBSITE. 2020-03-04.

## Courtesy

* Do not re-upload pictures that have already been uploaded or posted.
* Do not engage in an edit war. If you have an issue on how someone is editing an article, please notify a wiki administrator.
* Use appropriate language. Do not use any language that could be interpreted as mean to others.
* Do not create pages that do not pertain to LAPONE Entertainment.
* User pages (including user blogs) cannot include categories.
* Leave the content of *other* people's user pages alone.
* Do not post comments in all caps.
* If you are unsure about something, feel free to ask a wiki administrator.
* Last of all, have fun with the wiki!!!