Custom Bionicles:Manual of Style

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This is how all articles on this wiki should be written.

Contents 1 Basic Template for an Article 2 Language 3 Title 4 Headings & Capitalization 5 Amendments 5.1 Categories

[edit] Basic Template for an Article

1. Title (already included in a article at the top when first creating a page)
2. Templates other than NavBoxes(ie:Character infobox,location infobox,etc.)
3. NavBox(such as Location NavBox,if applicable)
4. Main Article
5. Secondary Articles (optional)
6. See Also (optional)
7. Appearances (optional)
8. Trivia (if applicable)
9. Categories

[edit] Language

Articles on Custom Bionicles should be written in American English in order to prevent mistranslations. There should be appropriate language (i.e:No offensive comments,racial slurs,etc.,etc.).

[edit] Title

If the name is about a character, their full original name is needed. If the character has a nickname, include it within the article, not the title. If the article is about a species, it is to be singular, although most of the species in Bionicle are the same word for singular and plural, so this shouldn't be much of a problem. Also, titles for characters should not be included in the title of the article (e.g: Lewa not Toa Lewa).

[edit] Headings & Capitalization

Headings should be used as opposed to Bold markup. This will help with reading and editing as a table of content will automatically appear. Capitalization should go along with grammar and spelling of American English but there can be a few exceptions such as specific titles for characters (e.g: Toa Tahu, Turaga Vakama. Toa and Turaga are a title for Tahu and Vakama.) Species should also always be capitalized. Also,do not put horizontal lines (----) below the title/subtitle or the bottom of the paragraph. There is no need,since titles automatically generate one. Don't put a second title,either,as the title of the page is already there.

[edit] Amendments

[edit] Categories

As of October 16, 2008 every page MUST have a category.To help us put this amendment into affect,please see Uncategorized Pages and Categories.This amendment does not affect pages whom are under the Category of Deletion; or User pages, User Talk pages,sub-User pages (i.e. User:Somebody/Sandbox), talk pages, or System (MediaWiki) pages.

For more information, see Custom Bionicles:Manual of Style/Categorization.