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REWRITE FOR KHWiki:Manual of Style.

The Manual of Style (abbreviated as MoS or MOS) is the style guide for all articles on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki. This page covers general formatting and grammar rules to be used on the wiki. Additional policies and pages, which are cross-referenced here, provide specific guidance on specific topics such as image and media use.

The goal and purpose of the Manual of Style is to make using the Kingdom Hearts Wiki easier and more intuitive. It promotes clarity and cohesion and helps editors write articles with a consistent and precise language, layout, and format.

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki uses American English as the official standard and language for writing articles, as it is the form of English used in the games. Therefore, all grammar and punctuation in articles should follow American English conventions. This guide includes specific applications of grammar rules as they apply on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki.

The Manual of Style serves as a guide. Should exceptions occur, these should be discussed in the article's talk page. Changes to the Manual of Style should be discussed on the Manual's talk page.

General

Titles

• Use standard capitalization rules for article titles. Capitalize any and all proper nouns and any words officially capitalized in the games or other official canon.
• New articles should be named according to the subject's official name.

Example: An article on "Sora's Weapon" should be named "Keyblade".

• Use the original name of a subject as the title, and add any additional or later names as redirects to the original name.

Example: In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, the Surveillance Robot was renamed the Watcher. On the wiki, the Surveillance Robot remains the article name, and the page "Watcher" should redirect to that page.

• Articles (a, an, the) should be avoided in article titles except if they are used in an official title/name.

Example: "Way to the Dawn", not "The Way to the Dawn" or “Way to Dawn”, but “The 13th Struggle”, not “13th Struggle”.

• Do not use abbreviations.

Example: Kingdom Hearts II, not KHII or KH2.

• Use Roman numerals instead of Arabic numerals for titles except when it is the official name.

Example: Kingdom Hearts II, not Kingdom Hearts 2, but Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, not Kingdom Hearts CCCLVIII/II Days.

Content

• The first sentence in the introduction should briefly define the subject of the article, and the subject has to be written in bold. Use the definite article and refer to the subject as a singular entity, except as appropriate for certain cases.
  • Example: The Keyblade is Sora's main weapon. Sora received the Keyblade in Destiny Islands. Keyblades can destroy the Heartless.
• Avoid using circulatory definitions, because they do not explain anything to the reader.

Example: Do not do this: "Scar's Ghost is the Ghost of Scar".

• Avoid using the second person pronoun (you) in articles except when describing strategies in a Game-space article describing strategies or in the Walkthrough-space.
• It is proper grammar that a possessive term should drop the final "s" if it is plural. The “S” should not be dropped solely because the word already ends with S.

Example: Use Xemnas's, never Xemnas', and Ventus's, never Ventus', but Nobodies', never Nobodies’s.

• All game titles should be italicized, except in the article title (there's no coding for that anyway).
• Linking to other articles is limited to the first occurrence of the word or phrase. However, an article can be linked to more than once in the same article if the additional links link to individual sections of the article, rather than the article alone.
• The first letters of all original weapons must be capitalized.

Example: Keyblade, Buster Sword, Identity Disc.

• Component, minor, or insignificant items can be grouped by an identifying characteristic rather than each item having its own page as long as the details of each component are provided.

Example: Serenity for Serenity Shard, Serenity Stone, Serenity Gem, and Serenity Crystal. Gummi Blocks (KHII) for engine gummies, wing gummies, projectile gummies, etc..

• All buttons (except for the analog sticks) should be represented by {{Button}}, especially in ability, gameplay, and enemy Game-space pages.
• Interlanguage/interwiki links are optional, but encouraged. Note that once an interwiki link has been placed, it should not be deleted unless at least one of the following circumstances are fulfilled:
  • The interwiki link is a broken link, which means that it directs to an empty, unwritten page.
  • The current link is being replaced by another link, either after the renaming of a page, or to prevent redirection.

Trivia

Content qualifies as trivia if it is information that is not significant or vital to either the game or gameplay, does not fit in other places of the article, and is of interest to note. Examples include seemingly unintentional recurrences, real-world references, or seemingly unintentional but marked similarities between two subjects. Trivia must be true and verified; neither speculation nor opinion-based conjectures are trivia. Trivia is inserted as the final subsection in an article, before "References” and “External Links”.

• Do not insert redundant information into the trivia section, particularly when the information is already contained within the main article body.
• No distasteful information is to be put in the trivia sections, or in any other part of the character articles.

Game Articles

• Use the complete and official name for game articles.

Example: The article for the game "Chain of Memories" should be titled "Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories".

• All game articles should use the {{Infobox CVG}} template.
• Place relevant navigational templates at the bottom of the article.
• Games must be categorized under Category:Games.

Sections

• ’’’Development’’’ – Detail the events surrounding the game’s development, such as trailer reveals, interviews, and announcements up to the game’s final regional release.
• Story – The detailed and complete plot of the game
• Gameplay - a summary of the game’s gameplay, especially new gameplay elements.
• Worlds and Characters – A list if all the characters in the game, divided by the world they appear or reside in.
• Trivia - Real world references etc.
• External links - Links to official websites.

Character Articles

• Every character gets an article.
• Coverage in an article should focus on appearance in the Kingdom Hearts series. Limit detailing appearances in original works such as Disney movies and Final Fantasy games.
• Character names are as they appear in the Kingdom Hearts series.

’’’Example:’’’ Cloud, not Cloud Strife, and Mulan, not Fa Mulan.

• All characters use the now-universal character infobox {{Enemy}}.
• Where possible, use a quote before the article that best exemplifies the character's personality or role in the games. Due to the sometimes passionate debates resultant of changes to these, do not change the character's introductory quote without prior discussion on that article's talk page.
• A Kingdom Hearts original character's first appearance is the game in which they first play an active role in the franchise; appearances in secret endings, visions, trailers, and so on do not count.
• Use an appropriate quote from the character at the beginning of the page, before the Enemy template.
• Characters that are fought also get a page in the Game-space to detail battle strategies. More information under the Enemies section.
• Place relevant navigational templates at the bottom of the article.

Sections

• Story – Detail the character’s involvement in each game he/she appears in. Divide this section by each game, even if there is only one game.
• Personality – Detail the character’s personality, such as his/her demeanor, behavior, and reactions or habits.
• Appearance – Explain the character’s physical appearance, detailing things such as clothing. This excludes changes in appearance due to moving across worlds, such as changes to Sora’s appearance in Atlantica. These are covered in a separate article in the Form-space.
• Abilities – A summary of the character’s abilities. Further details are added on separate ability pages (for playable characters) and on battle strategy pages in the Game-space (for enemy characters).
• Origin – For characters with original appearances in other works, such as Disney movies, Final Fantasy games, The World Ends With You, etc. Briefly describe their appearances in these and origins in these other works, including similarities or differences from these to the Kingdom Hearts series.

World and Location Articles

• Every world gets an article.
• Key locations get their own articles, particularly when an event has taken place in a particular location. Other locations and settings should not have their own articles, and should be covered in their respective World pages under the section “Settings and Areas”.
• Limit details to in-game appearances. Do not detail information on worlds as they appear in their respective original works, such as Disney movies or Final Fantasy games.

Sections (World articles)

• Areas and Settings – Briefly describe all the locations and settings in the world, listing the names of each location in bold text. Each location name gets an article that redirects to the world page, with an anchor to the exact location of that place in the article.

’’’Example:’’’ Hall of the Cornerstone should redirect to the Disney Castle article with the anchor Hall of the Cornerstone. This is done by using {{a}}.

• Characters – A gallery of all the characters that reside in the world. This doesn't include characters that solely visit (such as Merlin in Disney Castle, or Mickey Mouse in Twilight Town).
• Story – Detail the story events that take place in the world.
• Enemies - a gallery of all enemies that appear in that world, including all bosses.

Enemy and Boss Articles

• Every enemy and boss gets an article, including every Heartless, Nobody, Unversed, and Dream Eater.
• Characters fought against, such as Maleficent, Ansem or Xehanort, get a separate article to detail battle strategies in the Game-space.
• All Heartless, Nobodies, Unversed, and Dream Eaters are genderless, classified as "it" or "its" when referring to possession.
  • YES : The Zip Slasher is a powerful enemy. It uses a powerful slash attack to deal great amounts of damage. Using Block to defend against its slash attack will knock it unconscious.
  • NO : The Zip Slasher is a powerful enemy. He uses a powerful slash attack to deal great amounts of damage. Using Block to defend against his slash attack will knock him unconscious.
• Any character of either enemy type with an obvious gender, such as the members of Organization XIII and Xehanort's Heartless, are an exception to this rule.
  • YES : Xemnas is the leader of Organization XIII. He wields dual Ethereal Blades in battle.
  • NO : Xemnas is the leader of Organization XIII. It wields dual Ethereal Blades in battle.
• Place navigational templates as relevant, such as {{HeartlessBossDirectory}}.

Sections

• Story – Detail any relevant story events that occur.
• Design - Describe the enemy's physical appearance. Include at the end, if applicable, the source or origin of the name of the subject.
• Strategy - Describe different tactics to defeating the enemy and list the enemy's abilities and attacks. This section isn't required for enemies which are also main characters. In such cases, describe these battles in the article's related Game-space article.

Item and Equipment Articles

• Each item and equipment gets an article.
• Place templates as appropriate.
  • For Keyblades there are Template:InfoKeyCoM, Template:InfoKeyKH and Template:InfoKeyKHII.
  • For non-Keyblade weapons, there are Template:InfoWeaponKH and Template:InfoWeaponKHII.
  • For accessories, there are Template:InfoAccessKH and Template:InfoAccessKHII.
  • For armor, there is Template:InfoArmorKHII.
• Categorize as appropriate. Equipments must be categorized as either Category:Keyblades, Staff, Shields or Weapons. Items fall under the Category:Items.

Sections

• ’’’Story’’’ – Detail any relevant story elements.
• Requirements – Describe how to acquire the equipment.
• Stats - for Equipment
• Recipe - for Item Synthesis, listing all possible.
• See also - linking to the Chain of Memories Card for said item, as well as the higher/lower tiers of the item in question.

Ability Articles

• Abilities should be grouped together in articles per game.
• All abilities for playable characters get their own pages.

Example: Sonic Blade, Strike Raid, and Glide.

• Categorize it as appropriate. The general category is Category:Abilities.

Sections

• (Lead): should list the games in which it appears and give a general description.
• Mechanics – Describe the type of ability and how it's equipped and/or executed/activated, if relevant.
• Learning [ability]: list of methods of obtaining, learning, or otherwise gaining access to the ability.
• Drops (for commands): enemy drop rates
• Recipes (for commands): synthesis recipes for the command
• Synthesized Commands (for commands): recipes that use the command

Music Articles

• Each individual music track gets an article. This applies to both tracks for the same character but with a different name and for tracks with a different name but similar melody, such as Kairi I and Kairi III, and Dive into the Heart -Destati- and Destati.
• Original soundtracks albums [OST] also get their own articles.
• Place the navigational template {{Music}} at the end of the article.
• Music track articles should include an infobox detailing the information as listed on {{InfoTrack}}

Sections (Individual tracks)

• Introductory sentence - Should use the following format: "[Track title] is a musical composition by [Composer] that appears in [game(s)/the Kingdom Hearts series]." Depending on the track, specific games may be listed or may be replaced with "the Kingdom Hearts series."
• Appearances - This is the first section. List any occurrences the track plays, including cutscenes, boss fights, and outside official sources- such as Square Enix official music websites.
• Composition - This is the second section. The first paragraph should describe in detail the: approximate length of the piece; tempo(s), noting how many beats per minute; key signature(s); if the piece has or lacks an introduction and/or conclusion; how many measures each loop occurs; and instrumentation. A separate paragraph may be designated for each game/variation, depending on the track. The second paragraph should be a complete and in-depth music theory analysis of the piece, containing thorough descriptions of all phrases, noteworthy rhythms/themes, any forms of musical expressions (i.e. ornamentation(s), ritardandos, accelerandos, etc.), changes in dynamics, and even chord analysis.
• Albums - The third section. Any soundtracks that specifically list the respective music track should be listed and linked to.

Sections (Soundtrack albums)

• (Lead) – Describe the soundtrack album, including the games the soundtrack covers, release dates, etc.
• Tracks – List all the tracks un the albums in tables divided by disc. All the tables should be coded in a tabber div.
• External Links – List any related official links, such as pages in the Square Enix store

KHWiki:Media Policy

(To replace KHWiki:Image Policy)

Using Media

For the policy on media files, seek Kingdom Hearts Wiki:Media

Images

• Head images for articles should be renders or in-game captures. If neither are available, artwork or scans from other sources are acceptable.
• Use as many images as possible to make the article visually appealing and successfully visually describe the subject, but be careful not to clutter the article with too many images. Additional images can be listed in a Gallery-space article. An image every five lines is good enough.
• New images should only be uploaded over old images if you are replacing the image with a better quality version.
  • Where an image is of poor quality, use the template {{Betterpic}} to alert the uploader and other users.
• The maximum number of images in a Gallery section (excluding the lists of characters and enemies) is 12.
• If there are no images whatsoever in an article, you can alert other users by using the template {{Images}}.

Videos

• Videos are only allowed in:
  • Walkthroughs,
  • Game-space articles,
  • Game articles, where trailers are often showcased.
  • Video-space articles, once there are too many videos (such as trailers for a game)
• Videos should be placed at the bottom of the article before Trivia, in their own section.
• Do not upload videos to the wiki. Instead, embed a video from YouTibe by typing <youtube>the code after watch?v=</youtube>.

Music

• Use music files in Music track pages and appropriate world and character pages.
  • Upload only a 30-second snippet of the track. Anything longer nay be a violation of copyrights, and will be removed from the Wiki.
  • Do not link to file-sharing sites, or sites offering illegal music downloads.