Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective Wiki:Manual of Style

The **Manual of Style** is a style guide for all articles on the Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective Wiki. As everyone can edit most of the pages on this wiki, predefined requirements for the layout and structure of articles are needed in order to acquire and preserve consistency throughout the wiki.

This guide is used to assist editors in producing articles with consistent layout, language, and formatting.

However, do not worry if you find the guidelines to be confusing. As this manual is still a work in progress, anything written here is subject to change, and certain exceptions may apply. If you are unable to follow the manual's rules, that's fine. Just keep in mind that your edits might be adjusted by an admin/different user to fit this guide.

However, remember that by editing this site, you are agreeing to our policies—and if you blatantly disregard them or repeatedly vandalize the wiki, your behavior will result in a warning. And if you, even after receiving a warning, continue to violate this wiki's policies and rules, you will be blocked.

If you have any questions, please contact an administrator.

## Format

* It is advised to switch to the Source mode editor for better and more effective editing as the Source mode editor allows easier and more precise editing than the VisualEditor does. Furthermore, pages with complex code can only be edited with the Source editor. To be able to effectively use this editor, please make yourself familiar with the Wikitext.
* For examples of the layout for this wiki's articles and information regarding how they should be written and what they should include, please see the sample pages: sample character article, more.
* Changes and/or additions to the layout of the articles should be proposed to and discussed with the site administration first. Only, then, the suggestion may or may not be implemented throughout the entire wiki.

## Names

### Manga vs. Anime

Because **the *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga is the primary source for the series**, the wiki will follow its official English translation by MangaPlus for all articles, except for anime-only content or anime quotes. The MangaPlus translation, thus, takes precedence over the English translations provided by official distributors of the anime (e.g. Netflix or Crunchyroll).

For example, the TV series featured in the Live Broadcast Murder Case was translated differently across various official English translations:

* Crunchyroll: "Psychic Abilities: Fact or Fiction?"
* Netflix: "Lies, Truth, or Something Supernatural"
* Bilibili: "Lie or Truth Superpowers!!"

However, because MangaPlus translated the show's name as "Lie or Truth? ESP!!", that is the article name and the name used for the show across the wiki. The anime names should still be listed on the page though, albeit in footnotes. To ensure that anime-only fans can find the correct page, redirects with the anime translations should be created too.

### Naming guidelines

As there are often multiple ways of romanizing names written in Japanese, spellings might vary, even across official translations. In case of spelling discrepancies, the following "scale" should be adhered to:

1. **Akira Amano:** As she is the mangaka and, thus, the highest instance when it comes to the *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* series, her romanized spellings supersede any other official spellings.
2. **MangaPlus translation**
3. **Official merchandise:** If something (a character, an object, an ability, etc.) was neither given an official name/spelling from either MangaPlus nor Amano, names/spellings from official merchandise should be used.
4. **Official English subtitles for the anime**
5. **Fan translations:** If there are no official translations of any kind for something, fan translation should be used.

**Examples:**

* MangaPlus romanizes the first name of BLUE's principal as "Eme" (and in later chapters as "Emme"). Amano, however, spells it as "Aimee." As her word supersedes MangaPlus', "Aimee" should be used on the wiki.
* Ron Kamonohashi's ability was not given a proper name in the manga and is only ever described (e.g. as "pathological culprit killing," "culprit-killing syndrome," "fatal flaw," or simply "illness"). Official merchandise, however, dubbed it "Kill on Sight." For lack of another term, that name should be used on the wiki.
* The one-shot has not received an official English translation yet. Therefore, the fan-translated name of "The Case of the Sandbox Murder at Dawn" should be used on the wiki.
* Some official merchandise and fan subs give Spitz's last name as "Fire." However, because MangaPlus translates it as "Feier," that romanization should be used on the wiki. The spelling of "Feier" can only be "overturned" by Amano romanizing his surname as "Fire" or anything else.

Amano, however, can be inconsistent with her spellings. If she has romanized the same name differently at different times, the romanization she used the *most* will be followed. Until a "consensus" is reached, the MangaPlus spelling will be used in the meantime.

**Example:**

* Amano spelled the name of the crime reporter that debuts in the Poisoned Latté Case as "Chikori" on the cover of Chapter 14. She later wrote her name as "Chicory" in one of the unlockable bonus sketches. Only when the release of Chapter 58 marked the second instance of Amano romanizing her name as "Chicory," was "Chikori" abandoned in favor of "Chicory" on the wiki and her page was moved from "Chikori Monki" to "Chicory Monki."

To ensure that pages using Amano's spellings can still be easily found, redirects should be created. (E.g. "Chikori Monki" redirects to "Chicory Monki")

### Names in articles

When referring to a character in articles, use their **most commonly used name(s)** without titles or formal addresses. If there is more than one "commonly used name," all of them can be used.

**Examples:**

 Last name
 Title and name
 More than one (name and nickname) | Totomaru Isshiki | Totomaru or Toto

## Content

### Official Language

As the translation by MangaPlus is written in **American English**, this wiki will use American English as well. However, the usage of it is only obligatory in mainspace articles (both in- and out-of-universe) and not on user pages, talk pages, discussions, or alike.

Furthermore, all mainspace articles should be written in an objective, neutral, and formal style.

This means any...

...comments/remarks/ratings/opinions...
...biases...
...usage of phrases like "I think," "I believe," or "I liked/hated" and such...
...usage of phrases like "some people" or "certain fans/readers" and such...
...are prohibited in the aforementioned mainspace articles. Please, only voice your opinions in discussions, your user page, or on message walls.

### Present Tense

With exception of the "History/Early life" sections, every other article section has to be written in **present tense** (literary present). This still applies even if the article's subject is deceased.

### Capitalization

* Please, avoid unnecessary **capitalization**. If the word(s) or the phrase is not a title or proper name, it should not be capitalized.
* Proper names, titles, as well as terms capitalized in the novels themselves always have to be capitalized.

### Punctuation

Please, always use the straight (or typewriter) apostrophe ( ' ) and not the typographic (or curly) apostrophe ( ’ ) as well as the straight quotation marks ( " ) instead of the typographic ones ( “ ” ).

### Italicization

* The manga title as well as the titles of other artistic work from the real world like mangas, novels, plays, or movies have to be italicized in articles.

### In-universe writing

On this wiki, you can find:

* In-universe articles which focus on the fictional world of *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective*, such as Ron Kamonohashi, Bloody Field Trip Case, BLUE, and M. Family.
* Out-of-universe articles which focus on the real-world, such as Akira Amano and Shōnen Jump+.

In every in-universe article, it is obligatory to write in an **in-universe perspective**, meaning that the breaking of the fourth wall is prohibited.

**Examples:**

 At the end of Chapter 2, Ron declares it is "Puppet Establishment Day." | As their teamwork was a success and to cement their partnership, Ron declares it is "Puppet Establishment Day."

## Pictures and videos

*Main article: Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective Wiki:Policies#Image policies*
**This wiki does not accept any images in .jpg format.** Images uploaded in .jpg format will be promptly deleted and replaced by the same image in .png format.

## Linking

Under every heading and subheading, link **only the first instance** a certain character/place/object/etc. is mentioned. If, for example, the Bloody Field Trip Case is mentioned multiple times in Ron's Early life or Locked Room Piggy Bank Theft subsection, provide only a link to the Bloody Field Trip Case's page when the event is *first* mentioned.

**Internal links** can be created by using double square brackets around the word(s) you want to link to.

**Example:**

```
[[Ron Kamonohashi]]
```

If the displayed name and the page to which you want to link do not correspondent with each other, use the following code:

```
[[(the page's actual name)|(the displayed name)]]
```

**Example:**

```
Kiku tells Totomaru about [[Ron Kamonohashi|an odd detective]] who was expelled from [[BLUE|school]].
```

Furthermore, make use of interwiki links which can be created by using the following code:

```
[[w:c:(the name of the wiki to which you want to make an interwiki link):(name of the page on this other wiki)|(Link's display name)]]
```

**Example:**

```
Michiyo shares her name with a [[w:c:eldlive:Michiyo|character]] from ''[[w:c:eldlive:ēlDLIVE (manga)|ēlDLIVE]]''.
```

instead of

```
Michiyo shares her name with a [https://eldlive.fandom.com/wiki/Michiyo character] from ''[https://eldlive.fandom.com/wiki/%C4%92lDLIVE_Wiki ēlDLIVE]''.
```

For more information on links, please click here.

## References

When editing, please provide references to prove the accuracy of what you have written. If you need help adding references to articles, please refer to this guide.

Furthermore, this wiki uses a special template for manga references: {{RKRef}} This template is to be used as following:

**When referring to one page:**

```
<ref>{{RKRef|[chapter number]|p|[page number]}}</ref>
```

Example:

```
<ref>{{RKRef|1|p|1}}</ref>
```

This would create a reference to Chapter 1, page 1 of the *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga.

**When referring to multiple pages:**

```
<ref>{{RKRef|[chapter number]|pp|[starting page number]-[end page number]}}</ref>
```

Example:

```
<ref>{{RKRef|1|pp|1-2}}</ref>
```

This would create a reference to Chapter 1, pages 1-2 of the *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga.

## Copyright

*Main article: Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective Wiki:Copyrights*
## Fanfiction and fan-art

Fanfiction, fan-art, personal head-canons, and the alike are forbidden in all articles as this wiki, just like every other, should be built on facts.

Fan-art, personal head-canons and theories, however, may be added to your own user page. Fanfiction, as it can be rather long and excessive, is prohibited in user pages as well. You may add links to your works, though, but only if it is properly marked and labelled.

Of course, you are allowed to talk about your theories and opinions in discussions and on message walls.

## New categories

As the creation of a **new category** requires the linking of said new category to another, the procedure may or may not be rather complex. Therefore, every suggestion for a new category has to be discussed with an administrator first.