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
For an example of an up-to-date magazine page, see Genbu Kurono/Magazines.

Currently, write event/chapter title like below. This is to ensure easy linkage to the magazine sections without worrying about what the title of the magazine itself is

===Event Title=== : Event: Event Title : Original title: To add translator's notes, put a * after the part you want to explain further (you can use **, *** for multiple TN). Then put this code at the bottom of the table, before the ending   tag. |- | colspan="2" |  Translator's Notes  &lt;nowiki&gt;*&lt;/nowiki&gt; One translation note. &lt;nowiki&gt;**&lt;/nowiki&gt; Another translation note! (You can remove this one if not needed, or add extras).


 * 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.
 * Dialogue is to be written in    format. Don't put in periods at the end of sentences if the original text didn't have them. Also don't use quotation marks around character names unless that character is acting.
 * Brackets can be used in three ways:
 * Thinking, e.g:
 * Text that appears outside of the bubble but is assumed to be spoke, e.g;
 * Text that appears outside of the bubble but around the same time the same character is talking, e.g:


 * For things like background signs, you can be fancy with it and use normal brackets, square brackets, or other characters and stylings if they would suit the visuals of the magazine panel/page itself better.


 * 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.


 * 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.

List of Decided Translations
See Glossary for other translations not ont his list.