Wiki Formatting

The following are guidelines for consistency in wiki article formatting and presentation.

General

• Placeholders in formulas and other areas should use curly braces around the term.
• All sentences should end with proper punctuation if possible.
• Digit grouping (thousands separator) should use commas.
• Lists use serial commas.

Date/Time

• Whenever the year is irrelevant use abbreviated shorthand Mmm. DD (e.g. Jan. 29).
• Whenever the day is irrelevant use abbreviated shorthand Mmm. YYYY (e.g. Jan. 2008).
• Otherwise dates should follow the ISO 8601 standard YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2008-01-29).
• Times should be in 24-hour format.
• Relative times should use UTC.

Links

• Links to galleries must be in g.e format (Multi-Page Viewer and Lo-Fi notwithstanding).
• Any text which is naturably linkable to an article should be linked (e.g. any mention of the word equipment).
  • Exceptions:
    • Terms such as "gallery" due to multiple contexts.
    • Any instances which would lead to articles linking to themselves.
    • Redundant linking; e.g. the same term mentioned 2+ times in one sentence.
• Links to external sites should use HTTPS whenever possible.
• References should use the linked text (Ref) and are in superscript; footnotes are unnecessary.
  • Pages with multiple references may abstain from using any link text.

Tables

• Should use the wikitable class.

Formulas

• Should use the <pre> template (<pre<includeonly></includeonly> style="overflow: auto;{{{style|}}}">{Formula}</pre>).
• The term being solved (if shown) should be at the beginning and bolded.
• Explanations for terms should be kept outside the <pre> area (unless also a formula).

Unconfirmed Data

• Information that is estimated should be marked with (?)
• Conflicting or obsolete information should be hidden if not removed.
• Opinions are to kept in discussion pages.

Language

• All phrasing should be in the neutral third person.
  • Exceptions exist for newbie-friendly articles such as Main Page, HentaiVerse, FAQs, Technical Issues, and Advice.
• All non-English articles use the same titles as their English counterparts appended with forward slash and the language used (e.g. Credits/Spanish).