MANUAL OF STYLE
The Manual of Style is the style guide for the DOORS Wiki articles, templates, categories and user pages. This page describes the guidelines that should be followed at all times, especially when there is confusion or doubt on what should be done relating to specific pages, categories, templates and user pages.
The Manual of Style was last revised on 22 February 2023. It is subject to change at anytime.
Orthography
The preferred orthographic (language) variation of English is American English. This applies to the spelling of words (center not centre and favorite not favourite) and grammar of sentences (burned not burnt). Vocabulary differences (such as autumn and fall) can be excused. For more examples refer to this guide on Wikipedia.
Wikitext
This is the markup language that makes up all articles, templates, categories and user pages on Fandom Wiki's, it is a mix of XML and HTML. For help on using Wikitext on the DOORS Wiki please see this article.
Templates
Templates make formatting pages easier, they are located within a separate namespace from the main articles they are being used on, to call a template you utilise two of each of the curly braces/brackets; { and }, you then place the name of the template you are calling between the curly brackets/braces and fill out the required information if the template has parameters.
Infoboxes
Infoboxes (also known as Portable Infoboxes) are specialised templates that display organised content on the right-hand side of a page with important information about the content on the page it's being utilised on, the required formatting for Portable Infoboxes can be seen utilised on this template page.
Documentation
Template Documentation is located on the /doc subpage namespace for a template (Template:Entities/doc not Entities/doc), these articles must always be organized as a "Non-article" template type.
Icons
Icons are a list of small icons, with each appropriate icon being chosen in the template's parameter from said list. They should be shown to the left side of the appropriate text. Additional parameters can manipulate the icon's size, link direct and hover caption. For more information about icons, see the {{Icons}} documentation.
Article Structuring, Titles and Subtitles
This section will go into detail about how articles should be structured and how sections and subtitles are to be properly formatted.
Typefaces
This section will go into detail about the usage of various typefaces. Mentions of typefaces can also be found later into the MoS. Any use that is not included in each typeface should be avoided.
Bold
Bold text ('''Bold''') is reserved for:
- The first mention of the title of an article
Headers are automatically bolded with the wiki's CSS, manually bolding is not necessary.
Italics
Italicized text (''Italics'') is reserved for:
- The name of the game DOORS
- Mentions of the title of an article, excluding the first bolded mention
- The game's soundtracks
Note that only the name of the article should be in italics (ex. Figure's instead of Figure's or the Hotel instead of The Hotel.
Links
To prevent articles from being orphaned and obscure, all mentions of possibly pre-existing wiki articles should be linked to said article to allow for more accessibility through the wiki. The only time where a link shouldn't be used is when a link has already been provided to the same article under the same heading to prevent multiple linking.
External site linking
Providing links to websites outside of FANDOM is heavily discouraged. You should try to look for articles in other FANDOM wikis and provide a link to there via interwiki links. More information about interwiki links can be found here.
Topic naming
The title of the article (hereafter 'topic' for this part) is to be mentioned and bolded in the initial description of the article. Any further uses of the topic's name is to be italicized.
Gallery
Whenever a relevant file is meant to be in an article, a gallery is where we put them in. The usual way of making a gallery is by calling the gallery tag and its intended width with the files inbetween and their respective caption separated with a pipe. The following is an example from the Seek article:
<gallery widths="190"> Seek Eye.png|One of Seek's eyes. Old Seek.png|The old model of Seek. SeekJumpscare.gif|Seek's jumpscare. SeekJumpscare1.gif|Seek's hands grabbing the player. </gallery>
Files should not have File: as usual, they are shown in the gallery regardless. In cases of videos, however, they should be put below the gallery. Galleries do not support any video format.
Section Headers
Page titles
Page titles (including infobox titles) are normally written in title case (List of Entities), not sentence case (List of entities) or proper case (List Of Entities). Only the first letter of a major word or proper-noun should be capitalised, unless specifically spelt otherwise in-game (such as Lock Puzzle Solution Paper).
Infoboxes
Depending on the type of page you are creating varies on the type of infobox you require. All values should correspond to one within the required infobox. For example, the Figure page:
{{Entities
|title = Figure
|image = Figure.png
|damage = {{Icons|Instakill}} Instant Death (Jumpscare)
|date_added = August 10th, 2022
|creator(s) = RediblesQW
}}
The title in the infobox must generally be the same as the title of the page, the only exception is when a page has a special character within its name or an underscore.
The infobox and its parameters should not be cramped into a single line, instead with each parameter spread out to allow easier reading of parameter values like the example above. A cramped infobox can be seen here:
{{Entities|title = Figure|image = Figure.png|damage = {{Icons|Instakill}} Instant Death (Jumpscare)|date_added = August 10th, 2022|creator(s) = RediblesQW}}
Headings
Headings (including sub-headings) are to be used the same way as page titles but written in sentence case instead of title case (Related achievements not Related Achievements). They shouldn't be lengthy as they can unnecessarily expand the Table of Contents. Each main heading comes with an icon that should be appropriate to what the heading entails.
References
References should serve as a source citation to certain details in articles that can be doubted or challenged by others, e.g confirmations by developers. They should be formatted in front of the citated text like the following example:
<ref>[https://twitter.com/DoorsRoblox/status/1566604418761605121 "Ambush ambushes."] – DoorsRoblox, Twitter</ref>
If a reference is present without a references header, one should be made below the article gallery like this:
== {{Icons|Gallery}} References ==
{{Reflist}}
