Manual of Style
This manual of style is meant as a general guideline for contributors to help unify writing styles across the wiki, and is expected to be followed for all articles written for the wiki.
General grammar
- Use en dashes
–for ranges (e.g. "She's around 8–9 years old.") and em dashes—for parenthetical clauses, clauses which interrupt a sentence to explain something further (e.g. "My coach — Jun Yodaka — promised to take me to the olympics.").
Formatting
- Use Heading level 2
==Section title here==as the highest level heading in an article. Never use Heading level 1=Title here=, which is reserved for article titles. - For quotations, use a blockquote tag, then write the quotation in italics, and include quote marks. Put a linebreak after. The source of the quote should use a quotation dash
―, followed by the source of the quote (character names, if mentioned, should be linked).
"It's okay... I'm going to be fine. I want skating to be win or lose. I want to become a medalist... an athlete [...] so watch me. I'm gonna do my best to look cool."
― Inori to Nozomi and Tsukasa, Chapter 4.
- This is easily done by using the Quote template. As an example, the following code will yield the above quote block.
{{Quote
|quote = It's okay... I'm going to be fine. '''I want skating to be win or lose.''' I want to become a medalist... an athlete [...] So watch me. I'm gonna do my best to look cool.
|source = [[Inori Yuitsuka|Inori]] to [[Nozomi Yuitsuka|Nozomi]] and [[Tsukasa Akeuraji|Tsukasa]], [[Chapter 4|Chapter 4]].
}}
- Japanese name clarification should always be written as such: The name in Japanese script with a space between the surname and forename, then a space (no comma), followed by the name in the English transliteration, italicized. Example: Inori Yuitsuka (結束 いのり Yuitsuka Inori).
Article sections
- Articles should be uniform in structure for each of its categories. Some basic guidelines on what to write in each section:
Images
- Remove all text when taking screenshots/crops of manga panels. Disable your subtitles when taking screenshots of anime episodes.
Transliteration and Terminologies
- For Japanese transliterations, we should use modified Hepburn romanization.
- For English translations of names, if a name is written in the Roman alphabet in the original Japanese release, defer to that (e.g. the spelling of Reilly Foxx's name, written in Volume 12). Otherwise, defer to the spellings used by the official English translation by Kodansha US and YKS Services.
- The following table should be consulted for consistent terminology usage.
| JP | EN |
|---|---|
| Classes | |
| 初級 | Prelim/Preliminary |
| ノービス | Novice |
| ジュニア | Junior |
| シニア | Senior |
| 強化選手 | Designated Skater |
| 特別強化選手 | Top Skater |
| 強化選手 A | Junior Skater A |
| 強化選手 B | Junior Skater B |
| Competitions | |
| 全日本フィギュアスケートノービス選手権 | All-Japan Novice Figure Skating Championship |
| 全日本ノービス | Novice All-Japans (note the switch of word order between the long and shortened name) |
| 全日本フィギュアスケートジュニア選手権 | All-Japan Junior Figure Skating Championship |
| 全日本ジュニア | Junior All-Japans |
| 全日本フィギュアスケートシニア選手権 | All-Japan Figure Skating Championship |
| 全日本選手権 | All-Japan Championship |
| 全日本シニア | All-Japans |
| 名港杯 | Meikoh Cup |
| 西日本小中学生大会 | West Japan Youth Tournament |
| ジュニアグランプリ(シリーズ) | Junior Grand Prix (Series) |