Animation Wiki:Manual of Style

This is the Manual of Style for the Animation Wiki.

Sections and headings

 * Capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest in lower case. (Saiyan-Tuffle war instead of Saiyan-Tuffle War.)
 * Section names should not explicitly refer to the subject of the article, or to higher-level headings, unless doing so is shorter or clearer. For example, Early life is preferable to His early life when His means the subject of the article; headings can be assumed to be about the subject unless otherwise indicated.
 * Headings provide an overview in the article's table of contents and should be nested appropriately. The article title is automatically H1, all other headings should be nested inside of it. (, followed by ,   and so on.)

Perspective
All articles are written in an out-of-universe perspective. This means that all fictional entities must be treated as fictional per se.

Language and spelling
This is an English-language wiki. We primarily use American English. However, direct quotes should never be altered, even if they do not use American spelling or the English language at all. For non-English direct quotes, English translations should also be included.

The chart is provided below, comparing American English to other variants of English.

Words with multiple acceptable variants in American English (i.e. canceled and cancelled; the latter is mostly used in British English and non-US countries) are allowed on this wiki. Other exceptions include proper nouns (i.e. Grey DeLisle)

Translations
When using foreign languages, particularly in the lead, the English name always goes first, then followed by foreign-language text in the parentheses, and the romanized Latin name.


 * Examples:
 * Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir (Miraculous, les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir)
 * My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro)

Bold
When a text is in bold, it appears like this. It can be accomplished by typing three single quotes (') on both ends of a word or phrase.


 * The name of the subject of the article must be bolded in its first mention.
 * Alternate names for the subject of the article must be bolded in their first mention. This includes names of titles that redirect to said article.

Italics
When a text is in italics, it appears like this. It can be accomplished by typing two single quotes (') on both ends of a word or phrase. Using double quotes will not make the word or phrase italicized.


 * Italics must be used for the titles of works of art and literature, such as films, short films, television series, episodes and comics.
 * The proper names for a vehicle must be written in italics (e.g. Lemurian Star, Maribel del Mar).

Quotes
Quotation marks should be used around the names of television episode titles (i.e. "The Hand That Rocks the Mable", "Beck's Beginning", etc. However, when using quotes on an episode name in bold, do not type the quotation marks in bold. Quotes can also be used to quote a source (movie, episode, character line, interview) or songs in exact words.'

Abbreviations

 * The country United States should be abbreviated with "U.S." and not "US", "U.S.A.", or "USA".
 * The country United Kingdom should be abbreviated with "UK" and not "U.K."