Difference between revisions of "Lylat Wiki:Quality Standards"

Articles should be written in an encyclopedic tone. Any of the following tones should be considered in appropriate unless there is a specific reason why it is that way, and the reason is clearly marked or visible. Feel free to mark it with {{tl|inappropriate-tone-or-style}} or a more specific template bellow, when you see an article be more less encyclopedic  

# advertisement - {{tl|like-a-advertisement}}

# biased - {{tl|biased}}

# biography - auto, unreliable citations - {{tl|like-a-biography}}, {{tl|like-an-autobiography}}

# written like a travel guide - {{tl|like-a-travel-guide}}

# like a resume - {{tl|like-a-resume}}

# a howto - {{tl|like-a-how-to}}

# essay - {{tl|like-a-essay}}

# reads like a story - {{tl|like-a-story}}

# colloquial terms or jargon - including gaming terms, scientific, or slang, without an appropriate link to explain the meaning. - {{tl|colloquial}}, {{tl|jargon}}

# containing weasel words - Words that appear to be specific, but aren't. - {{tl|weasel-words}}

# wording promotes subject - is written in such a way that it promotes the subject, rather than inform about it. - {{tl|promotes-subject}}

# unencyclopedic - {{tl|unencyclopedic}}

# first-person or second-person - {{tl|wrong-narative}}

# fiction vs. fact - {{tl|fiction-v-fact}}

# in-universe - {{tl|in-universe}}, {{tl|out-of-universe}}

# globalize - {{tl|globalize}}

# not neutral - {{tl|not-neutral}}

Articles need to be written in such away that doesn't cause it to conflict with itself. It should also not be written by the person it is written on. Please mark {{tl|conflict-of-interest}} on articles you see having this problem

Articles should be written in a clear and precise manner. - {{tl|confusing}}

Articles need to contain only the information related to the title, and nothing outside of the articles context. A problem with the contect, can be marked with {{tl|context-problem}} and then discussed on the related talk page.

An article should not say one thing in part, and then say the opposite in another. Should this happen, please put {{tl|contradiction}} on the article, possible in the section where the contradiction is.

If you are trying to do an experiment, please keep it to a subpage of your userpage, or [[Lylat Wiki:Sandbox]]. If you see a page exisitng for no other reason than being an example farm, then please mark it with {{tl|example-farm}}.

Because an article can be written by anyone, and since we are all individuals, Not every article will be up to someone's spelling and/or grammar. If you find an article that needs some linguistic love, please either edit it yourself or mark it with {{tl|SandG}}. If the clean-up needed is more general, please mark it with {{tl|clean-up}}

; {{tl|recentism}}

; {{tl|proseline}}

; {{tl|updated}},  

; {{tl|current events}}

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 has little to no citations, please put {{tl|Missing Citations}} at the top of the article, and {{tl|Citation needed}} near any statement that you believe needs citing. This should be done, even if the entire article is to your knowledge of the truth, since it may not be to someone else's.  

If one or more references in a #References section are of the wrong style (e.g. references an archived website, but instead is styled for a print article, or is even not styled at all), please place {{tl|Wrong Citation Style}} along with the ref #'s, if available.  

In the event a piece of text has a reference ^[number], but the supplemental information doesn't really verify the statement, please place {{tl|cmnvt}} at the top of the article, and give more details as to why you believe this to be so on the article's respective talk page.  

If an article presents the opinion of a critic, copies or features a criticism of the subject, then it must not be written to be a critic of the criticism, nor a critic of the subject matter itself. Presenting the criticism helps develop a fuller understanding of a topic, but it should not change the tone or point of view of the article. If you find a section that does so, please tag it with {{tl|criticism-section}}

* Please do not use the wiki to try and predict the future - please use {{tl|upcoming-event}} & {{tl|future-events}} on something that contains information about an upcoming event.  

* Please do no edit the wiki to forecast future events - {{tl|future-edited}}

* Please only put information about planned future events (in universe or outside) when you have evidence to back it up - use {{tl|speculation}} to mark an artilce with unverified perdicitions, and use {{tl|future-events}} and {{tl|upcoming-event}} to mark articles with perdicited events that can be verified.  

* {{tl|future-events}} is to be used for marking articles with in-universe perdicted events.  

* {{tl|upcoming-event}} is to be used for marking articles with out-of-universe perdicted events.

Think an article contains unlikely statements? Think it says something that needs needs more references, even if there are some already there? Calling the accuracy into question, for these or any other reason, happens when you place {{tl|Accuracy Disputed}} on top of the article.  

Feel a page needs more verification? in doubt of an article's related scientific or game-play knowldge? Think we should bring an expert in on the subject? Then place {{tl|Expert Needed}} on the article, and maybe a expert will get to it... if they aren't to busy be an expert :P.  

* If you see a page providing false information among true infomation, please tag it with {{tl|info-maybe-false}} near the false information, and {{tl|article-contains-false-info}} at the top.  

* If you see a page providing nothing but false information, please place {{tl|hoax}} at the top of the page.  

* If any references you check out prove to be fictionalized (e.g. doesn't exist, from a april fool's website, etc.)  please place {{tl|references-fictionalized}}. Please do no put {{tl|fictional-refernce}} as this may be a first party reference. For more, please see [[#Types of References]].

As tempting as it may be, please do not write an article to be a review of the subject matter. The wiki needs to present information as is, including all information without judgement. Sourcing outside reviews, from reputable authors and/or editors, helps develop an understanding of the subject matter, but the section or article should not be a review itself. If an article is written in such a way, please mark it with {{tl|like a review}} at the top of the page or section.

This is one of the biggest problems a wiki faces, mostly due to the nature of anyone being able to edit. There will be times where a use has put in something not that they found in an official publication, but something they came up with themselves. Unlike a piece of fanon, or fanfiction, this information looks highly reputable, as if it did come from a  official publication. Please tag {{tl|Original Reserch}} if you see anything.  

An article has at least three references? good. Does it need more? if so, attach {{tl|needs-more-resources}} at the top of the article and encourage others to add them.

If it has 3 of less citations, then please place {{tl|Missing Citations}} on top instead.

External links that are part of an Article, or in a #External Links section, need to be related to the subject of the article. In the event that they don't, please mark it with {{tl|elcg}} if you feel this is so, but wish to see if others agree.

If you find an article that that does have too many details, please mark it {{tl|over-detailed}} and/or reduce the details yourself. If you are removing them yourself, please do not mass edit the article. Instead, edit in a incremental or iterative fashion, taking time to make sure the article still has its key information, and that the quality of the article is improving with each step.

* {{tl|too-narrow}}

* {{tl|too-technical}}

* {{tl|too-scientific}}

* {{tl|prose}} - to mark it should be in prose

* {{tl|timeline-to-prose}} - to mark a timeline

* {{tl|poetry-to-prose}} - to mark poetry

* {{tl|table-to-prose}} - to mark a table

* {{tl|list-to-prose}} - to mark a list

* {{tl|unprose}} - to mark it should be out of prose

* {{tl|prose-to-timeline}} - to mark that is should be a timeline

* {{tl|prose-to-poetry}} - to mark that is should be poetry

* {{tl|prose-to-table}} - to mark that is should be a table

* {{tl|prose-to-list}} - to mark that is should be a list

# {{tl|first-party-sources-missing}}

# {{tl|second-party-sources-missing}}

# {{tl|third-party-sources-missing}}

An article has one or more resources, but predominantly relies on one of those resources for all its citations. As each statement becomes strong with each verification, an article becomes stronger with a mixture of different sources, each being used appropriately. if an article comes appears to use the s\ame source too often, please mark it with {{tl|r.t. m.o.o.s.e.}}

# {{tl|intro-too-short}}

# {{tl|intro-too-long}}

# {{tl|intro-missing}}

# {{tl|intro-rewrite}}

# ''{{tl|OOUHI|Out of Universe}}'' - What was the creator thinking when he came up with a character?  

# ''{{tl|IUHI|In-Universe Info}}'' - how did a character get to where they are? how did a ship get designed? how did the item [[bomb]] come into existence?

# {{tl|too many quotes}}

# {{tl|too little quotes}}

# {{tl|too much info}} - in the event too many details are given, and it detracts from the quality of the article.  

# {{tl|too little info}} - if there is little to know information of the plot, and it is important to the article.  

# {{tl|spoiler}} - a template to hide important plot details you don't want people to know, should they care for something like this.  

#* If it is needed, one could mark {{tl|unmarked spoiler}} to a page that needs edited to either hide or remove the spoiler information. Please discuss on the related talk page after a marking, to see how and what should be hidden and what should be removed.

If an article is really, really bad, please put {{tl|rewrite entirely}} on it. this will prompt users (hopefully) to rush in, trying to edit the article to make it better.  

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.  

* {{tl|prose}} - to recommend it be prose.  

* {{tl|bulleted list}} - to recommend it be a bulleted list

# {{tl|sectionalized}}

In the event an article has decrease in quality to the point of not containing anything notable and being no more than a list, please place {{tl|list-of-non-notable-stuff}} on it.

* A page without links going to out to other pages is known as a dead-end. Please mark it with {{tl|deadend}}.  

* A page without linking going into it is know as a Orphan. Please Mark {{tl|Orphan}} on any page you find that you believe needs more links towards it.  

A disambiguation page exists to guide visitors of the wiki to specific articles, that have similar titles to other articles. Disambiguation pages aren't meant to be the receiving end of a link from another page. If you find a page that has one or more links to a disambiguation page, please place {{tl|Links-to-disambig}}  on the page or fix the links to the proper page yourself.

If a page needs some help linking to others, please place {{tl|wikiy}} on it.  

An article is missing a rather large piece, or maybe many small ones. this could be Walthough missing a stage, a gallery missing screenshots, whatever. If feel this is so, then please, place {{tl|incomplete}} on the article, and place why it is so on the talk page of the  

Should an article be part of the wiki? place {{tl|notability questioned}} and find out....*evil laugh*

Should it be, that an article has multiple issues within it, that placing all the templates would take up to much content space, please remove all addition maintance templates, and place {{tl|Multiple issues}} on it, and be sure to preserve the dates the article was originally marked for each marking.