SideMeta:Manual of Style

Formatting
See SideMeta:Formatting

General

 * Articles should be written in the present active voice, not the passive voice.
 * ✔︎ : "Ken caused the error."
 * × : "The error was caused by Ken."
 * Articles must be written in the third person and must avoid second person. References must always be made to "the player" or "Producers", but never "you".
 * Names should be written in Western order (Touma Amagase). Use Japanese order only when referring to someone in Japanese (天ヶ瀬 冬馬).

Numbers and Dates

 * Numbers under nine should be spelled out. 10 and above use numbers.
 * Dates must be given in the American order, Month first.
 * March, April, May, June, and July should not be shortened. All other months can be abbreviated into each respective first three letters, with the exception of "Sept."

Preserving Kana and Kanji

 * For the most part, the game itself uses halfwidth Katakana. The exception seems to be during animations, which use fullwidth Katakana (Receiving Air during Business・エール, announcing a Live・ライブ開催, etc). When copying text over, keep the halfwidth Katakana.

Transliteration and Romaji

 * Whenever Japanese text is used on this wiki, the Romaji transliteration must be inserted using the template. This should be done in the Classic Editor. For more information, please see the Template:Tt page.


 * Use the Hepburn standard for turning Japanese text into Romaji. The following mini-guide was lifted from Bulbapedia's Manual of Style:
 * I-macron (Ī ī) and e-macron (Ē ē) is to be used when romanizing Japanese words of foreign origin, hence kōhī for コーヒー but Iizuka for いいづか. A hint to look out for is whether or not a bō (ー) is used to lengthen it.
 * O-macron (Ō ō) is to be used for both おう (as in しんいちろう Shin'ichirō) and おお (as in おおづか Ōzuka)
 * E-macron (Ē ē) is rarely used, except with the interjection ええ and some foreign loanwords.
 * Please take note that verbs such as 思う omou and 呪う norou do not have long vowels.
 * However, subjunctive forms such as 思おう omoō and 呪おう noroō do have long vowels.
 * zu is to be used for both ず and づ; ji is to be used for both じ and ぢ.
 * With ン/ん, there is some free choice whether to use n or m when followed by labial consonants p, b, f and m. Follow popular or established convention on a word-by-word basis, hence, Namba for ナンバ but Hanba for はんば.

Magazine Page Formatting
Currently, keep the name of the event the chapter comes from (if applicable) in English somewhere around/in the chapter titles.


 * In the tables, you must leave empty lines between each line of text as spacing so that they properly show up as separate lines once you publish the edit.


 * If there is something you want to mark with an asterisk and explain in a Translator's Note, remember to copy/paste this  instead of using a regular asterisk so that it doesn't become a bullet point due to the wiki's formatting. May opt for footnotes or escape wiki markup later because on some mobile (or app-specific?) browsers that asterisk just turns into an emoji. Use four   (simply equal signs) on each side of the Translator's Notes heading, under the chapter table itself.


 * Quotes  go around what people say and think.


 * For thought bubbles, the words other than the characters' names are in parentheses  (and quotes can stay. See previous bullet point).


 * When more important words are outside of bubbles and can be assumed to be spoken, the whole line is in parentheses (so, including character name).


 * For things like background signs, have parentheses around the line but no quotes, as may be obvious (since outside of special cases, that text is not meant to be spoken). You can be fancy with it and use square brackets or other characters and stylings instead of parentheses if they would suit the visuals of the magazine panel/page itself better.


 * Periods are not necessary (for the end of a sentence a character is speaking/thinking), so leave them out ❌


 * instead of, is how the original pages have it, so keep it like that.


 * Sound effects, if translated, are just  (without capitalization, unless emphasis is needed, and without any containing asterisks). Also the optional character name should not have square brackets around it.


 * When multiple characters are speaking the same line use  rather than   between their character names.


 * When the character speaking/thinking/etc is not named, or not visible yet, you can use things like  or   or   to introduce them, but it's a case-by-case thing as to what works best for the scene.


 * Don't change/add s in words (like colour, neighbour, etc.) if you are editing someone else's translation. For your original translations, feel free to do whatever with the u's. Many (but not all) English-speaking users of this wiki may be more familiar with American English stylings.


 * Currently, Sora's haikus will be italicized on his magazine page. You have to put the formatting around every line.


 * Sora uses tildes.


 * Replicate Pierre's broken speech as best as you can. You can look at this guide for tips, and follow it as closely as you want.


 * If you are copy-pasting a translation into the wiki that is originally from a Google Doc/Drive, take care to edit the one-character ellipses into three separate periods, and the tick apostrophes into proper ones.
 * Another formatting guide as a starting point if you are stuck.