Fairy Tail Wiki:Manual of Style

Hello, and welcome to Fairy Tail Wiki. Please take your time to read this page as you start edit, to find more about this page, as well as some rules to follow in order to maintain organized and clean articles.

Policies listed here are for usage in articles. Unless stated, they must be followed across the wiki, without exceptions.

Other important pages to note when editing articles:

Project:Layout Guide - A guide to layout and structure of articles.

As you know, all wikis have a manual of style which they follow in order to maintain clean and neatly organized articles. Fairy Tail Wiki has a style that it uses to keep pages looking in a similar fashion. Below are some of the guidelines that we use here for such purposes. Please take your time to read and follow the guidelines as closely as possible as you edit any and all pages.

Perspective

 * In-Universe: Articles should be written with In-Universe wording. Phrases like "in Episode 7" or "in the S-Class Trial arc" out of sentences. These articles include all characters, locations, and ability articles. Basically, any article that has information based around the contents of the site, is an in-universe article.

Pictures and Video
For specific, detailed guidelines regarding the upload and use of images and videos for this wiki, please see the image policy.

Official Language
The content of this wiki is expressed in English. This is an English language wiki and all edits are expected to be carried out in English (with exception to the Japanese content required via technique, powers or skill names determined by the content of the series). This includes articles, forum posts, blogs and talk pages. If a users second language is English and they are not apprised of correct grammar and sentence structure we can only ask that you have someone help you with the content you wish to provide here as editing will be extremely difficult if you can not properly understand or converse with others in the community. Such edits would likely end up undone as they cannot be understood.

Trivia
The Trivia section is for actual relevant proven facts related to the article. Fan speculation and “what ifs/maybe” as well Junk Trivia type of information is not to be included in this section.

Talk Pages
The talk page is for conversations on maintenance and article correctness only. General conversations, questions and speculations are to be only placed in forums (see Forum).

Quotes
The quotes section is for relevant quotes that showcase the character's personality or personal feelings. Not for random words that anyone could have said in the same situation. Also while there is cursing in Fairy Tail, it is only necessary to use it in the quotes section in use with relevant quotes. Adding non-relevant quotes with random curse words and or just putting down random curse words that may have been said is not acceptable.

Page Edits

 * There is only one format to be used on the site, which a simple paragraph format. The formats of other styles including tiered or numbered styles are to complex and prone to disorder and are not supported here.


 * Please refrain from adding ambiguous content to the articles. While there is possibly more reason to believe where the information is going to lead, until confirmed it is not supported. In other words while we as users may have a reason to logically believe where a story is going or what someone in the story will do, we in fact do not know until it has happened.

Magic & Abilities

 * The terms Master Magician and Expert Magician are speculative and should not be used in our articles, they should remain Caster Magic User and Holder Magic User.


 * Please refrain from adding speculative content into the ''Powers & Abilities section. While the section is based on the skills and talents seen and spoken of we as users cannot take liberties with content. Such as assuming someone has skill in something without possibly knowing the truth of it as they have yet to either use it or the information has never been spoken of in series.

Fan Fiction & Fan Art

 * 1) Fan fiction is Not Permitted on the articles. Keep all fanfiction on user pages, blogs, or go to the [Fairy Tail Fan Fition Wiki].


 * 1) Fan art is not permitted in any article page, however certain pictures may be added as long as they are not used in any article other than your own user page. No pornographic images may be added.

Appearances in Other Media

 * 1) All information from Fairy Tail movies and video games that conflicts with the main canon established by both the manga (and supported by the anime) will be paced the Appearances in Other Media sections of the pages, not in any other section.

Vandalism & Language

 * 1) Removing referenced and proven content from the pages is considered vandalism.
 * 2) This is a encyclopedia of information on Fairy Tail; we use official and correct terms in explanation on appearance. vulgar and or slang terms are not the preferred forms to use.
 * 3) This wiki is not tolerant of inappropriate language in the wiki articles or forums or anywhere else on the wiki. Violators can and most likely will be quickly blocked.

Speculation

 * 1) Do not speculate on the article pages. (Meaning if it is not stated or shown and cannot be properly referenced it is not a fact). Refer all speculation to the Watercooler.

Source Referencing

 * 1) The wiki's information should only come from manga, anime, official guide books, official material, officially proven interviews and from Tite Kubo.
 * 2) The primary source for references would be the manga. The secondary source is the anime. While anime can be included alongside the manga references to supplement them. Manga always takes precedent in references except in cases of anime only material and to showcase color and movement that only can be expressed via anime.
 * If you are referencing a manga chapter or an anime episode, there is no need to describe your references. Simply put the reference, and the reader can go to the chapter or episode themselves.
 * Do not just put the chapter for a reference, put the page it happened on as well.
 * Once a page has at 8 references, a small small scroll box must be added to the references. This is done so the references don't take up too much space on the page.
 * Most users tend to have problems with the scroll boxes, so just copy and paste this code onto the pages exactly like this:

'''
 * The References should be in this style:
 * '''For Manga References:
 * For Anime References: 


 * For Omake References: 
 * For OVA References: 

Note: Some things on the same page will have the exact same reference in that case use this format.


 * For Duplicate Anime References: 
 * For Duplicate Manga References: 

  The next Duplicate References can just be  .
 * If you use the duplicate manga reference, the two or more things being referenced must have the exact same chapter and page.
 * Also, once you place the initial Duplicate Reference:

Outside References

 * 1) References to other manga/anime series is not encouraged. Fairy Tail wiki is exclusively about Fairy Tail. With the exception of the Rave Master, and Monster Hunt Orage pages.

Capitalization of words
In this wiki many words will appear in capitals letters. Do not change them.

A list of such words are:
 * Magic
 * Mage
 * Caster Magic
 * Holder Magic
 * Lost Magic
 * Guild Names
 * Organization names
 * Magic names
 * Character names
 * Location names

Plagiarism
Do not provide works, data, and/or images of other sites to Fairy Tail Wikia if it may/will violate the terms of the Use and Policy of both the Wikia and the site in question. As the editors of their respective sites worked hard on their articles, it is unjust to copy and claim the information as their own without contributing credit to the original contributor. If anyone is caught plagiarizing from other sites without contributing their sources and/or violating their policy, the content will be removed. The user responsible for the content will be subjected to punishment depending on the severity of the plagiarized work. The punishment can range from a warning to permanent removal from Fairy Tail Wikia. Exceptions to the case include: the material contributed is by the original contributor that provided the information to both the sites, or have some form of approval from the site in question. Original artwork and anime images that are not claimed and/or distributed by any other sites (e.g. images edited from public distributed files, such as raw scans, manga Tankōbon, or images from the anime) are excluded. In addition, official sites and shopping sites, such as auction sites or direct sale sites, and Fairy Tail Wikia sites of an alternative language are excluded as well.

If anyone finds any information that is potentially plagiarized from sites other than the exceptions given in the last paragraph, please report to the active Admins. While stating why it is considered to be plagiarized and providing proof of plagiarized works is optional, it would greatly speed up the process of checking and allow the making of the final decisions. If you wish, you may also remove the plagiarized content yourself, but please do report and remove the plagiarized content only.

Wikia Users
Becoming an user on this Wikia won't take more than a minute! An user can provide many benefits in the Wikia and can contribute to create more partnership with other active users, which will make Fairy Tail Wikia grow. Do not use the information on this Wikia for personal gain or for vandalism. If there's a need to know how to create an account, this page will help. If there's a need to know how to edit the user page, this page will help, as well as the Fairy Tail Wikia users.

Tense
All portions of the articles should be kept in present tense with the exception of the History and Trivia sections.

Categories
No useless or redundant or frivilous categories are allowed.

Creating an Article
Any user may create a new page; please keep this manual in mind when doing so.

Character page
Any and all characters in the Fairy Tail series, whether it is an anime, manga or video game only character, may have his/her own page, as long as they meet the following criteria.
 * Must be involved in the story-line, meaning no background characters. In other words, if a character is only seen standing or sitting but does not interact or have any lines it is not worthy.
 * May have only been referred but never featured. Any character who is mentioned by name and has an impact on the story line (i.e. Mavis Vermilion).

Locations
Any location that has been named or at least mentioned, can have its own article. It must use the Location Template.

Organizations
Any organization that has a relevance to the storyline will have an article. This includes guilds, dark guilds, neutral organizations (such as the Magic Council) and groups of people who are considered as one (such as the Ten Wizard Saints).

Chapters and Episodes
All chapters and episodes will have their own articles, and they must maintain the same format that all other episode pages and chapter pages have. An example of each one are the first anime episode and the first manga chapter.