AddictedWiki:Manual of Style

The Manual of Style is a style guide for all articles on the wiki. Anyone can edit the wiki, and it is important to note that the wiki needs to be consistent for people to read.

This guide establishes a house style for the wiki. This is to help editors produce articles with consistent layout, language, and formatting.

Don't worry if you find this page confusing, or if you are unsure of how to format parts. This isn't a set of rules, if you are unable to follow this then that's fine. Just be aware that your edits might be adjusted by an admin/different user to fit this guide.

Format

• To edit effectively, you should be familiar with Wikitext
• For examples of the layout for this Wiki's articles and information regarding how they should be written and what they should include, please see the following sample pages: sample character article, sample book article, more.

Title of the article

• The article title should be clear and concise. For each article, the most common name should be used.
• If the name of the character/location/etc. is conjectural then use a short description as the title.
• It is not always possible to use a desired title for an article because it has different meanings, and thus is being used by a different article. If this occurs, add additional meanings to the title.
• Use title case, not sentence case.

Text formatting

I assume Krista & Becca Ritchie write in American English, but this wiki is written in Canadian English.

Point of View

Neutral Point of View

All encyclopedic content on this wiki must be written from a neutral point of view' (NPOV), which means you should write fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias.

This means that you should avoid including any of your personal opinions such as 'I love Charlie' or 'I think.' Instead state facts, and be neutral while you write.

Third person

Write in third person. Every article on the wiki (besides pages like this one) should be written in third person. While you write, use he/she pronouns instead of 'I' or 'you.'

In-universe and Out-of-universe

There are two types of pages on this wiki:

• In Universe - articles d which focus on the fictional world, such as Connor Cobalt, Fizzle, Hells Kitchen Apartment
• Out of Universe - articles which focus on real-world topics, such as Krista & Becca Ritchie

In an 'In Universe' article, you should write in an in-universe perspective. This means you should imagine that the events of the novel have happened, and you are an archivist who lives through the events as they occur and documents them. You should avoid writing, 'Kinney Hale is a fictional character in the Like Us series' and instead write 'Jack Highland is a producer of We Are Calloway doc- series'.

State what happened as if it were real.

Save for the occasional mention of out-of-universe elements in infoboxes, categories, and the "Trivia" and "References" section, the rest of the article should be (mostly) in-universe.

While an out-of-universe article will be written from a real-world point of view. This is the opposite of an in-universe article as it is written from "our" perspective, and there is acknowledgement that the characters and locations in the series are fictional.

Links

Under every heading and subheading, link only the first instance a certain character/place/object/etc. is mentioned. If, for example, Ryke Meadows is mentioned multiple times in Daisy's history section, provide only a link to Ryke's page when he is first mentioned.

Internal links can be created by using double square brackets around the word(s) you want to link to.

Example:

[[Lily Calloway]]

If the displayed name and the page to which you want to link do not correspondent with each other, use the following code:

[[(page's true name)|(display name)]]

Example:

"Charlie calls his [[Connor Cobalt|dad]]."