Help:Editing Guidelines

Welcome, Future Wiki Contributor! Please make sure you also familiarise yourself with the Rules of Conduct and To Do!

This page serves as a guide to help editors get started on this Wiki. '''Please read this article all the way through before making any edits if you are new! It will ensure that the edits you make are of the highest quality!'''

You are encouraged to join the Wiki Discord where contributors of the Wiki have a better line of communication. To Do: On this page you can see what tasks are being done by whom and also where help is needed. If you wish to contribute, feel free to pick a task and mark it as yours by adding your name to it.

General "Rules" of Thumb

 * DO use the Source Editor and please refrain from using the Visual Editor - it tends to messs up the Wiki code on pages. If you're not sure how to do something, ask for help!


 * DO ask before making new pages, most missing pages have already been made or are already planned by someone.


 * DO ask questions if you need any help or advice or if you can't find anything.


 * DO add links ONLY to the first instance of each topic mentioned in an article.


 * DON'T add new categories to pages. These are being handled by the admin/mod team.

Formatting and Design
Please keep to the formatting that is already in on pages that are done. If you have any questions, ideas or suggestions, please contact The Embraced One on the Wiki or on Discord: The Embraced One #6059.

Spelling

 * The wiki uses British English.

Terminology
Try to keep terminology and descriptions consistent throughout the wiki, using formal and impersonal language. '''Avoid using "you," "we," and other second-person terms, and do not use slang or colloquialisms. Avoid terms like "probably," "looks like," "clearly," "really," etc.'''

The following is a list of terms as they should be consistently worded (more to be added later): (to be updated once the game is out)


 * Enemy attacks: Use the present and imperfect tense when describing enemy attacks and behaviour (e.g. "Charges forward, spinning into a ball"). Only use future tense if the attack is circumstantial (e.g. "Will jump back if the Knight gets too close").


 * Controls: Always in all caps. Because the game supports both controller and keyboard inputs, button prompts are not denoted by their relative name but by the naming convention in the options menu: JUMP, ATTACK, CAST etc and the directions UP, DOWN, LEFT, and RIGHT.


 * Trivia/Lore: Unless stated in the game or by the developers, all correlations and references are possibilities, not absolutes. Preface trivia with good evidence as "likely" or "presumably" true. Please keep lore-related content on the Lore section (to be added) of the Wiki.

Lore
Lore can be in a specific section of a page or on its own page within the Lore category. Generally, lore does not belong in trivia sections. All lore sentences should have an appropriate reference added at the end which provides evidence. See citation below.

Speculation and claims with no evidence have no place on the wiki.

Trivia
Anything about a specific subject that does not fit into any other section on a page is considered Trivia and should be put under the Trivia heading for that page. If no Trivia section is present, you may add it to the bottom of the page. Please refer to other pages that have trivia sections for its format.


 * DO only add trivia if it is verifiable. If it is verifiable, then it should include a citation link to the source where it is mentioned.

What is trivia

 * Information about changes in game design while the developers were creating the game.
 * Inspiration that the developers took from the real world, other games, or literature.

What isn't trivia

 * General information about the game world that could fit in other sections of the article.
 * Possible inspirations that were never mentioned by the developers.
 * Coincidental similarities.
 * Personal speculation.

Screenshot Requirements

 * Screenshots need to have a resolution of exactly 1920x1080.
 * PNG files are preferred over JPG files.

Citation
Where applicable, include citations with links to sources such as interviews. To do so, after the entry that the reference supports, add with a short sentence or link, for example:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. makes:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

which shows up at the end of the page as follows, by adding the template: