Style Guide

The **Style Guide** provides information on how to format pages on this wiki.

If you are not yet familiar with wikis, please use the following links:

* Welcome to Fandom, for absolute beginners.
* Editing 101, to learn about editing a wiki.

### Basic Formatting

Two line breaks should be used between sections, **no more**! All wikitext should be kept simple, to make future edits and copying as easy as possible. Please refrain from adding unneeded parameters.

### Minimising Edits

While mistakes happen, please try to minimise the number of times you edit and publish a page. Do **not** create blank pages, and do **not** click save to preview the page. I recommend the use of multiple tabs, keeping this Style Guide open in another tab for reference and copy/pasting. Use the Preview link to check your work, you can also use the preview to click links from the article and open them in new tabs. Please only save a page when you are finished with it.

## Notices

Notices are placed at the top of the page, before everything else. Notices let contributors know where pages are in need of work.

 {{CleanUp|Issues}}
 {{Delete|Reason}}

## Warnings and Disclaimers

Similar to notices, these templates provide important information. Warnings go at the top of the page, after Notices, and should appear in the order shown below.

 {{Spoiler}}
 {{Warning|Content}}

Disclaimers go at the bottom of the page.

 {{Disclaim-Med}}

## Adding a New Video Page

New videos can be added to the wiki after they are published publicly on YouTube.

Titling pages is complicated. Titles should be distinct enough to identify the video, without being unwieldy or redundant. As there is no convention for the video names, there is no one guideline on how to title video pages. Please use title case (even if the original title does not).

 Apostrophe

## Page Templates

The following templates should be used to format new pages. It is recommended that you use the Source Editor, rather than the Visual Editor. Copy the appropriate template below and paste it onto the new page. All fields should be filled out, but if a field is not needed (for example, "related" videos) it should **not** be deleted, but left blank.

When video titles include the pipe character | you will need to use a special template in order to get the wiki to read the format correctly. This is because most templates are based on tables, and use the pipe as part of the markup. Replace any pipes in video titles with the following wikitext: {{!}}.

### Videos

```
{{Spoilers}}
{{VideoBox
}}
{{Quote | REPLACE this sentence by copy and pasting the relevant part of the video
description, usually the first paragraph.}}

== Synopsis ==
REPLACE this sentence with a 2-3 paragraph description of the video's contents.

[[Category:Videos]]
```

```
{{SeriesBox
}}
{{Quote | REPLACE this sentence by copy and pasting the relevant part of the video
description, usually the first paragraph.}}

== Synopsis ==
REPLACE this sentence with a 2-3 paragraph description of the video's contents.

[[Category:Videos]]
```

When writing a video synopsis, it is important not to get bogged down in detail. Direct transcriptions should be avoided unless they provide vital context. The purpose is not the describe the video in detail, but to inform the reader of the most salient information. Think about what you would like to read: what information would be important if you hadn't seen the video? what should be included for people refreshing their memory of what occurred? Remember that readers don't want to tackle a wall of text, they want to quickly find what they are looking for.

### Categories

This wiki utilises a lot of categories that should be added to video pages. Please see Style Guide/Categories for more information on how to use categories.

### Characters

```
{{Spoilers}}
{{CharBox
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' REPLACE this sentence with a short summary of the character.

== Description ==
REPLACE this sentence with a physical description.

== About ==
REPLACE this sentence with stuff about this character's dealio.

== Source ==
REPLACE this sentence with a brief description of the character origin
(or delete this section entirely for original characters).
See the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/linky Wikipedia page] for more information.

[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Original Characters]]
```

As with videos, brevity is the name of the game. Character pages are **not** the place to describe what occurs in videos. Instead, refer back to the video with a link. See Chief Medical Officer Roberts as an example of a quality Character page.

 Description
 About
 Source

### ASMRtists

```
{{InfoBox
}}

PLEASE write something here about this ASMRtist.

==Video Collaborations==
* [[Link to Videos]]
* [[Bulleted List]]

{{ASMRtists}}
[[Category:ASMRtists]]
```

ASMRtist pages are for showing a little love to other wonderful creators in the ASMR community. Collaboration videos must have a link to the other ASMRtist(s) who contributed (see Up To Yer Neck In Tingles, Your Knight No More, and Mad Hatter's Tea Party for example of three types of collaborations).

Images of ASMRtists *can* be cropped and should be representative of the creator, their YouTube avatar is a good place to start. See Jimち for an example of a high resolution avatar image.

## Images

Three types of images are utilised in this wiki: video thumbnails, video screenshots, and merchandise designs. Video thumbnails can be obtained using Thumbnail Save; right-click the 720p resolution version of the video thumbnail and save it to your computer with a suitable file name.

Images of characters should be in-focus, and serve as a good representation/illustration of that character. They may be edited (brightness, contrast, etc), but should not be cropped. Where the same character appears in multiple videos, additional screenshots should be added to a character's page as a gallery.

### Galleries

For character pages with galleries, use the following wikitext.

```
<gallery>
NameofFile.JPG|[[Link to Video]]
AnotherFile.PNG|[[Linky Linky]]
</gallery>
```

### Naming Images

Images should be in JPG or PNG format. Use of UpperCamelCase is preferred. Thumbnail file names should be similar to the video title, but can be abbreviated. File names may also be numbered, if using the same file name is unavoidable.

### Uploading Images

Go to Special:Upload. You do not need to fill out the destination filename or summary, but you **must** select the appropriate license from the drop-down box. Jimち has given permission to use thumbnails and still from his images, and the first option (permission granted) should be selected.

Once the file has been uploaded, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on ADD CATEGORY. Please do not forget this step!

 [[Category:Character Images]]
 [[Category:Merch Images]]

## Redirects

Common search terms may have pages created for them that redirect to the correct page. You can copy-paste the following text:

```
#REDIRECT [[Destination Page]]
[[Category:Redirects]]
```

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