Platinum End Wiki:Style Guide

Style Guide Behavior Policy Image Policy

To keep articles consistent in terms of writing and formatting, the Platinum End Wiki provides its own style guide for contributors. Note that this generally follows Wikipedia’s Manual of Style.

Subjects

1. Article subjects and their corresponding information should be factual. This means that rumors, speculations, theories, or any fan-made media and information have no place in the wiki and therefore shall never be added.
2. Page creations must have a clear topic to stay on the wiki. Any page that does not concern the Platinum End universe or has an extremely broad topic will be deleted.

Grammar

Language

1. Use American spelling. Viz Media, Crunchyroll, Funimation, (Platinum End’s official English translators) and FANDOM are American companies, so the wiki uses American English as its official language.
   • Use words like “afterward,” “forward,” “toward,” “anyway,” “gray,” instead of “afterwards,” “forwards,” “towards,” “anyways,” and “grey.” The latter set of words are more common in British and Canadian spellings while the former are more common in American English. The wiki will follow the former.
2. No usage of profanity unless necessary. Profanity will only be accepted on a case-by-case basis. Chapter and episode titles and any other official name are exempted from this rule.

Punctuation

1. Use serial comma.
2. Use "straight" quotes, not “curly.” The same rule applies for single quotes or apostrophes: 'straight', not ‘curly.’ Quotation marks and apostrophes in imported material should only be changed if necessary.
3. Use the "logical quotation" style. Include terminal punctuation within the quotation marks only if it was present in the original material. Otherwise, place it after the closing quotation mark.
4. The titles of the manga series and its anime adaptation should always be in italics, e.g. Platinum End. Chapter and episode titles should be in quotes, e.g. "Gift from an Angel".
   • To assist correct linking and styling for chapter and episode titles, use templates {{ch|<chapter number>}} and {{ep|<episode number>}}, respectively.
5. Dates are written in "month day, year" format. Use cardinal numbers. For single digit numbers, do not add a 0 before it.
   • For cardinal numbers: write "May 10, 2017," NOT "May 10th, 2017.”
   • For single digit numbers: write "February 5, 2022," NOT "February 05, 2022."

Images

Images are used to enhance the appearance and quality of articles on the Platinum End Wiki. Therefore, all images must follow a format for the purpose of uniformity.

• When inputting images in articles, they must always be 200px in size.
• Images in an article must alternate positions. If Image A is right-aligned, then Image B must be left-aligned. Consequently, Image C would be right-aligned, Image D left-aligned, and so on and so forth.
• Always add appropriate captions. The image caption is usually the image’s file name.

For more information regarding file naming, usage, and uploads, see Image Policy.

References

References are used to justify and prove information. Hence, adding citations to one’s contributions is very essential. References may either come from manga chapters, anime episodes, or credible external links. For the proper citation of references, see {{Ref}}.