Difference between revisions of "Lylat Wiki:Quality Standards"

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: Event(s) are happening, that causes an article to repeatedly be out-of-date, and thus, will be changed many times over its course.
: Event(s) are happening, that causes an article to repeatedly be out-of-date, and thus, will be changed many times over its course.


=== trivia ===
=== unbalanced ===
=== unbalanced ===
In the event an article is largely one-sided, and can not easily be fixed by one editor, place {{tl|unbalanced}} on it, and work on fixing it with other on the relevant discussion page.
In the event an article is largely one-sided, and can not easily be fixed by one editor, place {{tl|unbalanced}} on it, and work on fixing it with other on the relevant discussion page.
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* {{tl|too-scientific}}
* {{tl|too-scientific}}


=== trivia ===
 
=== prose ===
=== prose ===
=== types of references ===
=== types of references ===
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# {{tl|too many quotes}}
# {{tl|too many quotes}}
# {{tl|too little quotes}}
# {{tl|too little quotes}}
=== plot ===
=== plot ===
We all like to know generally what happened in a game, but what if you are in the middle of playing you look up how to do something, and by accident, you read to much. When this happens, the plot has been spoiled for you.  
We all like to know generally what happened in a game, but what if you are in the middle of playing you look up how to do something, and by accident, you read to much. When this happens, the plot has been spoiled for you.  
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If you have vollunteered to mass rewrite an article, first '''THANK YOU''', from the entire {{LW:Admin}}. You have no idea how much work you are saving us, and we probably we'll never get to properly show you gratification. Second, please post {{tl|mass rewrite}} on top of the article, in order to give notice to other that a mass edit is going on, and in order to prevent edit wars, they may wish to wait on their contributions. But please remove the notice when you are done.  
If you have vollunteered to mass rewrite an article, first '''THANK YOU''', from the entire {{LW:Admin}}. You have no idea how much work you are saving us, and we probably we'll never get to properly show you gratification. Second, please post {{tl|mass rewrite}} on top of the article, in order to give notice to other that a mass edit is going on, and in order to prevent edit wars, they may wish to wait on their contributions. But please remove the notice when you are done.  
=== trivia ===
A trivia section should contain {{*}} bulleted lists of little tidbits of information. These each should still follow our spelling and grammar rules. There is just no need to put it in prose, unless it really does work out better that way.
* {{tl|prose}} - to recommend it be prose.
* {{tl|bulleted list}} - to recommend it be a bulleted list


=== needs reorganized ===
=== needs reorganized ===
Think an article needs to be reorganized? is it missing sections that you know should be there? Then mark it with one of the following templates:  
Think an article needs to be reorganized? is it missing sections that you know should be there? Then mark it with one of the following templates:  
# {{tl|sectionalized}}
# {{tl|sectionalized}}


=== list of non-notable stuff ===
=== list of non-notable stuff ===