Welcome to the Arsenal Wiki. This is the Manual of Style, a general guideline to follow when creating or editing articles, whether they be weapons or maps, made in order to standardize the place's writing.
To find the general rules of the wiki, go here.
General
Our editors should strive to abide by these guidelines. If you want to get a head start on editing, at least read through these.
- Use proper grammar and spelling within any article directly related to the wiki.
- Seek to write in an objective, passive voice when writing articles.
- Create new pages as new content is added to Arsenal.
- Update pages as relevant to any updates to Arsenal.
- Remove and replace opinionated and immature writing from wiki articles.
- Assist our staff in correcting vandalism.
- Help replace incorrect information.
Wording and Grammar
To deliver a consistent experience throughout the wiki, these set of guidelines have been created as a reference to write articles. Again, editors should strive to write in an objective, passive voice.
- Editors should refer to readers in the third-person, often as "players" or "users". They should never write their articles in a first or second-person perspective.
- First-person is a subjective way to write an article, and second-person is an informal way to write an article.
- An exception is made for the Tips and Tricks sections in articles pertaining to Maps.
- Editors should remain impersonal in their writing.
- Avoid adding your own experiences with the topic and write down factual information instead.
- Editors are to familiarize themselves with the use of the words "its" and "it's".
- "Its" is correctly used as a possessive ("Its magazine size is high compared to other guns in its class.")
- "It's" is a contraction meaning "it is" ("It's an assault rifle." ["It is an assault rifle."])
- Editors should never use subjective statements, such as calling weapons or maps trash/terrible.
- While some guns may have objectively lower stats than others, present the weapon's statistics to let readers draw their own conclusion of the weapon.
- Editors should limit their use of pronouns, and should use gender-neutral and third-person pronouns within their article. (They, them, their)
- Editors should not add jokes to the pages, and also not include things such as, "The firerate is as slow as heck."
- Editors should avoid using abbreviations, as readers may not be well-versed in terminology as an editor.
Weapons
- When referring to a weapon's magazine capacity, editors should use the format "(rounds in magazine)-round magazine". For example, "The M9 fires from a 15-round magazine."
- Please avoid adding any real-world information about a weapon outside of the first paragraph of the General Information section. Readers come here for information about the weapon in-game, including its stats and various strategies on how to use it.
- Leave real-world information to a single sentence at best. Any more information should be moved to the weapon's trivia section.
- An example page has been created for weapons. Find it here.
- If obtaining imagery for weapons, the Delinquent skin should be used, due to its iconic status and lack of any gloves and such will not detract from the image, as well as not having a weapon skin equipped.
- Editors should also be on the blue team if possible, as it is generally considered the main team of Arsenal.
Quotes
- Editors should keep in mind that quotes should be a small phrase, possibly humorous, or maybe a reference to something that relates to the gun, such as a video game quote or an existing, real-life quote.
- Editors should not change any existing quotes, unless they go against the guidelines. Even if editors may not think it's a very good quote, that's up to the staff to decide.
- There should not be more than one quote on any given page.
- Editors should not reuse quotes from the same source for an extreme amount of pages (EX. A TF2 quote for 7 pages). If editors are not aware of said multiple quotes on the wiki, it is fine; it will be changed for them.
Images and Videos
- It's preferable to upload in MP4 rather than GIF if creating animated elements in a page.
- If only gifs are available, however, those are okay.
- PNGs are always preferred over JPGs. Same note from above applies.
Formatting
In order to assist in the standardization of articles within the wiki, editors may use these formats in the creation of new articles for the wiki. All formats here can be copy pasted into the source editor.
Remove the <pre></pre> tags when in use.
Pros & Cons
Used in weaponry articles.
<span style="color:green">'''Pros:'''</span> * Pro example goes in here. <span style="color:red">'''Cons:'''</span> * Con example goes in here.
Page Notices
These notices are applied to the very top of a page to inform users and editors of a specific situation concerning said page.
- Template:Stub Notice - Used in unfinished pages that require more information.
- Template:Delete - Used when a page is marked for deletion.
- Template:Upcoming Content - Used if an article is about upcoming content.
- Template:Cleanup Notice - Used if an article requires cleanup.
- Template:Removed Content - Used if an article is about a removed piece of content.
- Template:Revamp Notice - Used if an article still contains outdated info about a revamped content.
- Template:Exclusive Content - Used if an article is about a content that was mainly exclusive to developers and staff members.
- Template:Recently Released - Used if an article is about a recently-published update. Will be removed when the update is two weeks old.
- Template:Promotional Content - Used if an article is about an environment that only appears in the game's thumbnails.
Headers
Used to create a box around content, with a title.
General use header template.
Header template for use in the Update Logs.
Infoboxes
- Weapon articles use Template:Arsenal_Weapon_Template.
- Map articles use Template:Arsenal_Map_Template.
- All articles have a corresponding navigation box.
- Weapon articles use the Template:Weapon_Navbox.
- Map articles use the Template:Map_Navbox.
- Articles under the main page hub use the Template:Navigation_Navbox.
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