Help:Wiki/Style Guidelines

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This Style Guide has the simple purpose of making things easy to read by following a consistent format. The following rules do not claim to be the last word on style. One way is often as good as another, but if everyone does it the same way, the wiki will be easier to read and use, not to mention easier to write and edit.

In this vein, editors of new and existing articles should strive to have their articles follow these guidelines.

Contents 1 General 1.1 Article Titles 1.2 Headings 1.3 Capital Letters 1.4 Italics 1.5 Punctuation 1.6 Acronyms and Abbreviations 1.7 Pictures 1.8 Captions 2 Sections 2.1 Creation of Sections 2.2 Table of Contents (TOC) 2.3 Lead Section 2.4 Body Sections 2.5 Appendix Sections 3 Categories 4 Japanese Language 4.1 Romanisation 4.1.1 Alphabetic Order 4.2 Japanese Terms 4.2.1 Template 4.3 Names 5 Web Links 5.1 YesAsia Links 5.2 Tokyo-Nights Links 5.3 External Links 6 Page Templates 7 Reviews 8 Lyrics Pages 9 Audio Samples

General

Article Titles

If possible, make the title the subject of the first sentence of the article. The title should appear as early as possible in the article — preferably in the first sentence.

The first time the article mentions the title, put it in bold using three apostrophes — '''Article Title''' produces Article Title.

As a general rule, do not put links in:

• the bold reiteration of the title in the article's lead sentence.
• section titles (the only exception being lyrics pages).

Also, try not to put other phrases in bold in the first sentence.

Headings

Use the == (two equal signs) style markup for headings, not the ''' (triple apostrophes) used to make words appear bold in character formatting. Start with "==", add the heading title, then end with "==".

• Avoid links within headings. Instead repeat the word or phrase in the first sentence and wikify there.
• Avoid overuse of subheadings.
• Avoid "The" in headings.
• Avoid repeating the article title in headings.
• If at all possible, avoid changing spelling of section titles, as other articles may link to a specific section.

Capital Letters

Initial capitals and all capitals should not be used for emphasis. Use italics instead by adding the '' (double apostrophes) used to make words appear italic

Italics

Generally italics should be used for the titles of works of literature and art. Therefore they should be used when discussing music in our wiki - that means album, single, song titles etc.

Punctuation

Simply follow the usual rules of English punctuation.

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Do not assume that your reader is familiar with the acronym or abbreviation you are using. The standard writing style is to spell out the acronym or abbreviation on the first reference and then show the acronym or abbreviation after it. This signals to readers to look out for it later in the text and makes it easy for them to refer back to it.

Pictures

Articles with a single picture are encouraged to have that picture at the top of the article, right-aligned.

The current image markup language would therefore be this:

[[Image:picture.jpg|120px|right|thumb|caption]]

When uploading a picture be sure to provide as much information about the picture as you can in the summary box.

Captions

Photos and other graphics should have captions unless they are "self-captioning". Captions should not be italicised. The caption always starts with a capital letter.

Remember the full information concerning the image is contained in the image entry, so people looking for more information can click on the photo to see the full details.

Sections

Creation of Sections

Sections are created by creating their headers as follows:

==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====

Please do not use only one equals sign on a side (=text here=); this causes a title the size of the page name; which is taken care of automatically.

Table of Contents (TOC)

For each article with more than three headings, a table of contents (TOC) is automatically generated from the section headings, unless:

• (for a user) preferences are set to turn it off
• (for an article) in the edit box the code __NOTOC__ is added

The TOC is put before the first section header unless it is placed manually with the code __TOC__.

Lead Section

The lead (technically "lede") section is the section before the first body section. It is shown above the table of contents (for pages with more than three headlines). The appropriate lead length depends on the length of the article, but should be no longer than three paragraphs in any case.

The title or subject should almost always be part of the first sentence. If the subject of the article has more than one name, each new form of the name should be in bold on its first appearance. Avoid links in the bold title words.

Body Sections

When a section is a summary of another article, it should have a link before the text (but after the section heading):

{{main|Utada Hikaru}}

Which produces:

Main article: Utada Hikaru

Appendix Sections

Appendix sections (in the preferred order) are:

• Purchase This Release (see Links section below)
• See Also
• Refrences
• Tokyo-Nights Links
• External Links

Categories

You must include category details on new pages for the following:

• Artist Pages - include in category Artists
• Album Pages - include in category Albums
• Single Pages - include in category Singles
• Review Pages - include in category Reviews
• Lyric Pages - include in category Lyrics

This is important as without your articles will not be included in the category contents pages linked to on the main page.

One of the following should therefore be used for each and added at the end of your article:

[[Category:Artists]]

[[Category:Albums]]

[[Category:Singles]]

[[Category:Reviews]]

[[Category:Lyrics]]

Japanese Language

The wiki is an English language encyclopedia of Japanese Music. As such an English loan word or place name with a Japanese origin should be used in its most commonly used English form in the body of an article, even if it is pronounced or spelled differently from the properly romanised Japanese. For example: use Mount Fuji, Tokyo, jujutsu, shogi, instead of Fujisan, Tōkyō, jūjutsu, shōgi.

Romanisation

The Hepburn romanisation system should be used because it is generally accepted by scholars and it gives a fair indication of Japanese pronunciation to the intended audience of English speakers.

Take care with these points:

1. Long o and u are written as "oo" and "uu" respectively.
2. は, ヘ and を as particles are written wa, e, and o respectively.
3. Syllabic n ん is generally written n.
4. Syllabic n ん is written n' when followed by a vowel or y but not when followed by another n.
5. Article titles should omit apostrophes after syllabic n.
6. Article titles should use proper romanizations of long vowels except in cases where a shorter spelling is in common usage in English-speaking countries (e.g., Tokyo, Osaka, Sumo and Shinto, instead of Toukyou, ousaka, Sumou and Shintou).

The original version of Hepburn used m when syllabic n ん is followed by b, m, or p. While generally deprecated, this is still allowed in titles for cases where the official romanisation continues to use m.

Alphabetic Order

Lists of romanised words should be ordered in alphabetic order, A-Z, instead of the common Japanese ordering system which is based on the kana characters. In the case of names, alphabetise by surname, not by given name.

Japanese Terms

Give the romanisation for any name or term written in kanji or kana when the Japanese pronunciation is different from the English pronunciation. Use the pattern:

English (Japanese characters rōmaji)

Then you can use the English term in the rest of the article.

Template

There is a template (Template:Japanese Romanisation) to help standardise the entries for Japanese terms.

Usage example:

{{Japanese Romanisation|New Meikai Japanese Dictionary|新明解国語辞典|Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten}}

appears as

New Meikai Japanese Dictionary (新明解国語辞典, Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten^?)

The first entry appears before the brackets, the second is the Japanese term in Kanji and Kana, the last is the reading in Hepburn romanisation. The question mark ^? is a link to Help:Japanese Language.

Names

Japanese artists should be referred to by their surname first and then their given name. For example: Utada Hikaru as opposed to Hikaru Utada and Hamasaki Ayumi as opposed to Ayumi Hamasaki.

Where applicable also include their name in kanji and kana in brackets the first time they are mentioned in your article. For example: Utada Hikaru (宇多田ヒカル).

Web Links

Links are to be broken down into 5 categories:

• Purchase This Release - links to a purchasable product on YesAsia's website (see below).
• See Also - wiki links to other articles.
• References - hyperlinks to source information used in your article.
• Tokyo-Nights Links - hyperlinks to other sections of T-N; for example: the gallery or forums.
• External Links - any other hyperlink pointing away from T-N.

They should be shown in your article as per the above order.

YesAsia Links

To help support the running of T-N please ass the following code on any article concerning a product that can be purchased at YesAsia. The links use our associte credit link that provide us with a small commission from YesAsia whenever a product is purchased through the link. By adding the links it will help raise supporting funds to keep this site running. The following code should therefore be used:

==Purchase This Release==
<div style="float:left;">
[[Image:YesAsiaUSA.gif|YesAsia USA]] [http://us.yesasia.com/assocred.asp?0179PWCJ+(add product URL here)|YesAsia USA]

[[Image:YesAsiaGlobal.gif|YesAsia Global]] [http://global.yesasia.com/assocred.asp?BGFQIHWX+(add product URL here)|YesAsia Global]
</div>

This produces the following:

USA

Global

==Tokyo-Nights Links==

*[http://www.tokyo-nights.com/forum/showthread.php?t=(thread number) Official Forum Discussion Thread]
*[http://www.tokyo-nights.com/photos/browseimages.php?c=(category number) Image Gallery]

Review:Artist_-_Title_(Member_Name)

==[[Artist Name]] - [[Release Name]]==
'''Review by [[User:Member|Member]]'''


(review text here)


Discuss this review in the forums [http://www.tokyo-nights.com/forum/(add thread) here]

[[Category:Reviews|Artist Name - Release Name (Member Name)]]

Lyrics:Artist_-_Title

==[[Artist]] - [[Title]]==
'''Lyrics by [[User:Member|Member]]'''


(lyrics text here)


[[Category:Lyrics|Artist - Title]]