Suspects Wiki:Manual of Style

This is the **Manual of Style** for the Suspects Wiki. This is an article to explain to new users on how to correctly edit an article specifically on this wiki.

## Basics On How to Edit

To edit a page, you can click/tap on the "EDIT" button that has a pencil icon next to it. This is usually on top of the page.

Note that sometimes you can't edit an article, this can be because the article is good quality or important. You'll need to be an "Autoconfirmed user" to edit such pages; you can earn it once your account is 4 days old and have 5 article edits.

## Editing Rules and Expectations

As with all wikis, on Suspects Wiki, we strive for grammatically correct English (specifically U.S English), and any opinionated and biased tones or/in text is prohibited. We recommend Grammarly to be able to give articles with more better grammar.

If there are multiple spellings of a word, that would should consistently be written with the same spelling across all pages on the wiki.

### Specific Rules

* When referring to a player being killed or voted out, never type "defeated" or "attacked". "Killed", "voted out", "murderered", and "kicked out" are more specific as to how the player died. With this said, "defeated" may still be used when referring to a team losing.
* Sentences which contain "season pass" should not be capitalized as "Season Pass". Nor should the rarities of characters or skins. Such as "rare" or "common".
* Always use the present tense unless the referred content is no longer available or valid.
* Trivia should list things about the subject which is not very well-known.
* When adding trivia to a Trivia section, the trivia added should only be one that is specific and intentional, and not just a coincidence that's related to an outside thing, or unrelated. (e.g: instead of something such as, "Jade is also the same species as Tigress from the *Kung Fu Panda* franchise", write something less unrelated, like "Jade is canonically Paolo's rival.")
* When an image is a part of an icon such as the no advertisements icon in Advertisements, the image should always wrap to the right and be a relatively small image, like between 200x200 to 350x350 pixels. (e.g: [[File:Icon.pnc|300x300px|right]])
* When an image is something large like the meetings image in Meetings or the Creators banner in Content Creators, the image should always be 500x500 pixels and placed to the center.
* When working on a page for an animation, there should be at the very least one image in the Plot section. The Plot should also describe the video almost word-to-word.
* Avoid using the same word more two or three times in a sentence unless that word is the name of a game mechanic like Kill, or Inspect.
* When writing numbers, using letters to write them (e.g: zero, two, twenty-seven, etc.) is suggested, but if it's a number value which is heavily related to game mechanics, such as the amount of Pass Points a Quest gives, should be using numbers themselves (1, 60, 300, etc.) is more recommended.
* Do not change characters' genders unless you have evidence from the developer, otherwise your editing ability might get blocked.

## Template Tips

* The template name for characters is {{Animal}}.
* The template name for game updates is {{Update}}.
* The template name for skins is {{Skin}}.
* The template name for animations is {{Animation}}.
* The template name for characters shown in animations is {{Character}}.
* The template name for roles is {{Role}}