Fairy Tail Wiki:Manga Summary Guild

Manga Summary Guild
The Manga Summary Guild is a group of Fairy Tail Wiki Users who have the task of correcting and updating the chapter pages of our wiki, and writing new and correct chapter summaries as the chapter are released. These users are dedicated to the task of making sure the chapter pages within the Wiki are correct! All users should read our summary guidelines before you start writing summaries.

Guild Colors

 * Guild Colors: &
 * Guild Mascot: Gray Fullbuster
 * Guild Crest: Gray Fullbuster & the Fairy Tail symbol

Roles of the Manga Summary Guild
The following are the duties of the guild:


 * 1. To write the new chapter summaries as the chapter debuts.


 * 2. To correct and rewrite all old summaries.


 * 3. To fix the format of the chapter pages.

Supervisor

 * Has the right to promote and demote users.
 * Has the right to allow users to Join the Guild and add their name to the registry.
 * Has the right to check completed jobs and move them to the completed list.
 * Has the right to remove inactive users.
 * Has the right to take and complete jobs.

Guild Master

 * Is the primary contact for the Guild
 * Has the right to check completed jobs and move them to the completed list.
 * Has the right to remove inactive users.
 * Has the right to allow users to Join the Guild and add their name to the registry.
 * Has the right to take and complete jobs.

S-Class Mage

 * Has the right to report inactive users to the Guild Master.
 * Has the right to allow users to Join the Guild and add their name to the registry.
 * Has the right to check completed jobs and move them to the completed list.
 * Has the right to take and complete jobs.

Mage

 * Has the right to take and complete jobs.

Inactive

 * All users that go a month without doing at least two summaries will be tagged as "Inactive", and if you go two months without taking a job you will be excommunicated without warning.

Process
Here at the Manga Summary Guild, you pick up jobs from the Jobs section below, and write the summary for it. We do jobs by arcs, meaning that all the chapters from one arc should be on the job list at one time. If an arc is complete then the Guild Master will post the new jobs. All Jobs are worth the same amount of Jewels, and at the end of the month, IamJakuhoRaikoben will tally all the points and whoever has earned the most Jewels will be called the Mage of the Month. If you see a job that you want to take, simply put *taken* and your signature beside it. Once you are finished, place *jobcompleted* beside it, and it will be checked for completion.

When signing up for a job, please use instead of ~ so that you're timestamp isn't left.

Joining the Manga Summary Guild
If you wish to join the Guild, fill out the application below and post it on the guild's talk page, and after your application has been reviewed, I will add your name to the list of members. All users must not be anonymous users. If you wish to join the guild, you must create an account.

Excommunication from our Guild
Any users that go two month without taking at least four jobs or more, will be excommunicated from the Manga Guild. When you are excommunicated, you must take our Guild's Badge off of your userpage within two days of being notified of your excommunication. If you do not remove it, one of your fellow Guild members will. Excommunications aren't permanent and if you wish to rejoin the guild, simply re-apply.

Summary Guidelines
Now below are the Guidelines to keep in mind when writing summaries and they are also things that might be helpful if you writing a chapter summary for the very first time. They are also designed to comply with wiki best practice.

1. Please keep in mind that this is a wiki and so please do not speculate when writing the chapter summary. Just describe things as they unfold, and when in doubt, go for neutral tone and wording.

2. Links - please consider providing one where you think that the reader of the summary might want more information on either a character or a term.

3. Please do not forget to fill in the other chapter details when, before, or after editing the summary, such as the characters in order of appearance list and the powers and techniques list.

4. The Summaries should be written with in universe wording meaning terms such as the scene then switches or a flashback begins or the chapter begins with shouldn't be in the articles.

5. The articles should have a some pictures and the pictures should correspond to the text that is directly next to it. The pictures should alternate meaning if a picture is left in a previous paragraph then it should be right in the next. Also, our site policy is to use tankōbon images only so you should ask ChaosKnight for all images that you need, and if you upload your own images mark them with the category Needs Replacement by Tankōbon.

6. The chapter page should go in this order Introduction (the introduction should not have a header that says introduction), Summary, Characters In Order of Appearance, Fights, Magic, Spells and Abilities Used, and then Navigation.

7. Chapters must have a one line summary. Which is essentially a two to three sentence recap of the entire chapter that goes in the introduction.

Characters In Order of Appearance
To list characters, use the wikitext #Character Name

For example...
 * 1) Natsu Dragneel
 * 2) Lucy Heartfilia
 * 3) Mirajane
 * etc.

Fights
Each chapter should have a "Fights" section between "Characters in order of appearance" and "Powers and Techniques used."

Fights should be listed chronologically (in the order that they happened or began in that particular chapter) and organized using bullets by typing an asterisk ( * ) before the name of the fight. They should be set to default size, not bold or italicized, and should be linked to the appropriate fight page. When a fight concludes, add "(concluded)" to that particular chapter to indicate that the fight ends in that chapter. If there are no fights in an chapter, put "None" in the Fights section. If a fight begins and ends in the same chapter simply put that it (started and concluded) however if it simply started in that chapter then (started) is not listed.

For example, a proper listing for Chapter 1 would look like:
 * Natsu Dragneel, Lucy Heartfilia, & Happy vs. Bora (started and concluded)

What is a fight and what's not?
 * 1) A "fight" will be considered to be the time from the initiation to the end of physical combat between at least 2 opponents in present time. They must be considered serious contests. Training sessions, petty brawls, and flashbacks to previous fights will not be listed as fights.
 * 2) If opponents physically engage in combat during an chapter, it should be listed in the section as a fight.

Special circumstances
 * 1) If opponents physically engage each other (i.e. clash swords) moments before an chapter ends, add the appropriate fight to the list. If opponents are talking or moving to engage without making contact and the chapter ends just before they clash, do not add it to the fights list.
 * 2) If a fight (or the conclusion of a fight) carries on to the next chapter, list it on the next chapter summary as well, and so on until the fight ends.
 * 3) If a fight concludes but a winner/loser or draw is not clearly established or is uncertain, continue the fight into the next chapter summary and add "(concluded)" after the name of the fight.

Magic, Spells, and Abilities Used - Example
To aid you in writing the powers & techniques section, here is an example of what it should look like. If there are no powers or techniques used, just write "None" under the heading. A couple of points that need clarifying:

The Magic, Spells, and Abilities Used sections should follow the example below, like the character pages follow the Layout Guide:

Magic used:
 * (Summoned the Water Bearer, Aquarius)
 * (Summoned the Water Bearer, Aquarius)
 * (Summoned the Water Bearer, Aquarius)

Spells used:

Abilities used:
 * Hand to Hand Combat
 * Swordsmanship

Armors used:

Weapons used:

Items used:

Guild Template
For use by members ONLY!

Type   on your user page; this mark is a symbol that you're a Mage of our Guild. If you are excommunicated from the Guild, you must remove it from your user page, or another user will remove it for you. For use of former members ONLY!

However, you can replace it with  , which is a symbol of you being a former Mage of our guild.

Jobs
'''MEMBERS MAY ONLY WORK ON TWO JOBS AT ONCE. YOU MAY ONLY TAKE ANOTHER AFTER AT LEAST ONE JOB IS COMPLETED.

Phantom Lord arc
 * Chapter 49 *taken*
 * Chapter 50 *taken*

Oración Seis arc
 * Chapter 134 *taken*
 * Chapter 155 *Job completed*
 * Chapter 156 *Job completed*
 * Chapter 158 *taken *
 * Chapter 159 *taken*
 * Chapter 160 *taken*

Edolas arc
 * Chapter 178 *Job Completed*
 * Chapter 183 *taken* Theblahman (talk)
 * Chapter 184 *taken*
 * Chapter 187 *Job completed*
 * Chapter 188 *taken*
 * Chapter 198 *taken*

Completed Jobs
List of jobs that were properly summarized this month. For all the others, please view the completed archive to the right.

Oración Seis arc
 * Chapter 131 completed by

Edolas arc

Monthly Total
This is the spot to tally all the Jewels that all our current mages have. At the end of the month, whoever has the most Jewels is named the Mage of the Month.

LEGEND:
 * Mage of the Month is colored
 * Excommunicated/Former Member is colored
 * — (em dash) indicates that the user was not yet a part of the guild on the corresponding month.