Guidelines

Note: These guidelines are still work in progress. Feel free to discuss them in the talkpage.

Before editing a page, please keep the following guidelines in mind

Usage of spoiler tags

• The inline spoiler tag should only be used when spoilering one word or part of a sentence. It should only be used when no alternative would allow a spoiler alert to be displayed in a convenient way.
• For paragraphs or pages, use Template:Spoilers instead. This will display a boxed spoiler alert relative to the whole page/section
• Pages or section relative to a specific chapter/episode do not need an alert. If people read the page about Episode 12, they might figure out that the ending is likely to be revealed. Adding a warning in the introduction is acceptable though.

Scanlations, fansubs and copyrighted material

• Please do not provide links to episodes subs, manga scanlations and other borderline legal content. This is a wiki, not a rapidshare server.
• Uploading of official art, screenshots or specific scanlated pages is acceptable if they serve a specific purpose (illustrating an article, showing something, etc.). Obviously you won't start uploading a whole book just for the heck of it.
• When uploading a fanwork, please states its source (if available) as file description.

Page structure

Image galleries

• The galleries should be split up into the following three categories when applicable: "Official Art," "Screenshots," and "Fanart." When a page doesn't have any images that can fit into one of the galleries, that gallery will be omitted: for example, the Episode 12 page will only have the "Screenshots" and "Fanart" galleries, whereas the Madoka Kaname page will have all three.
  • "Official Art" contains concept art, promotional images, Ume Aoki's doujinshi and illustrations, manga images, and so on.
  • "Screenshots" includes screenshots. Please try to keep the screenshots as relevant as possible to the page.
  • "Fanart" contains illustrations, comics, and anything else that was generated by fans. Please identify your source prior to uploading; if you can't find out who made it, don't upload it!

Character pages

• Character pages may be adapted depending on the needs, but should somehow respect the following layout:
  • Personality
  • History (or "Backstory")
  • Power, weapons and abilities
  • Trivia
  • Speculation
  • Galleries
• When setting up a gallery, do not forget to observe the guidelines above
• Do not forget to properly tag the speculations (see below)
• Do not forget that character pages have a talkpage, so discussion shouldn't occur on the page itself

Episode pages

• The usual layout is:
  • Summary
  • Runes
  • Observations
  • Speculation
  • Images
  • See also/external links
• You may add additional section/subsections, but try to keep the general structure clear
• Do not forget to split the image galleries as explained above
• The "speculation" section should only be used to explain theories, their variation(s), and what makes them right/wrong. Please do not use this section as a talkpage.
  • Also, please tag the theories properly: a "confirmed" theory must have at least one element from the franchise that goes in the same direction; a "debunked" theory must have at least one contradiction with canon; all other theories are "unknown".