Skull & Candy Wiki:Manual of Style

This manual of style page is to help give a guideline on making sure page layouts are consistent. If you feel something should be changed or updated, please open a discussion with an admin about it.

General
For general editing guidelines, please keep the following in mind:


 * Do not stylize (italics, bold, etc.) headers and subheaders unless it's normally written as such (like Skull & Candy is meant to be italicized).
 * Do not use custom HTML to edit article pages, such as, , , etc. as they can disrupt site wide CSS coding. For styles that are supported already by Wikia, please use their coding style instead (such as bold and italics using apostrophes).
 * For linking, please only link to a particular page once in the main text (links in infoboxes don't count here).
 * Only use tables for actual table information (example: you want to create a sheet of every character, their status, and affiliations). If trying to simply create columns (say a bulleted list of all locations) we have a div format in place to use so please ask an admin for help on this (don't worry, it's very easy to edit if you know basic source code).
 * As the author uses American English spellings in her comics and in her own posts, that's the version we use here so please do not change things over to British English.

Images
Various pages here use galleries and for certain ones, they have their own subpage for just images.


 * Before adding any new image, . For instance, if you want to submit an image from one of the comic strips, please check the Images Gallery first. If it's a cropped image of something we already have on file, do not upload and instead just link to the full image (exceptions include a picture that is going directly into an infobox or a logo).
 * For character infoboxes, please use an in comic image when possible. If they've yet to appear, concept images are fine.
 * Try to refrain from using images with dialogue in them for infobox images
 * Please refrain from uploading images just for the sake of uploading. While every panel in the comics are wonderful, we'd rather people visit the Tapas site to read the full comic in it's complete form than fractured versions here.
 * 1) it helps verify what you're uploading is official (i.e: not fan art) and 2) it gives proper credit to the creators and where it can be found.
 * Please not that if an image is in violation of Wikia's ToU, lacks proper citation, is fan art, or otherwise not relevant to Skull & Candy, it may be subject to deletion.

Page Layouts
To try and keep pages consistent, headers should follow the same order based on the type of page. (For example, References header should always be at the bottom of the page, never at the top). Note also that some pages may not have all headers; what's important is to keep the ones that are in use in order and with the correct header name.

Chapters

 * 1) Description
 * 2) Summary
 * 3) Synopsis
 * 4) Trivia
 * 5) References

Characters

 * 1) Description
 * 2) Design
 * 3) Personality
 * 4) Biography
 * 5) Synopsis
 * 6) Relationships
 * 7) Trivia
 * 8) Gallery (major characters will have their own subpage for this)
 * 9) References

Locations/Organizations

 * 1) Description
 * 2) Trivia
 * 3) Gallery
 * 4) References

Categories
Categories act as the "backend" of the wikia: while they may not be used to normally view and read on the wikia by most, they help keep everything from pages to templates to images neatly organized and, in the case of DynamicPageLists, easily setup lists and galleries. As such, it's important to make use of them when creating a new page/template, or uploading an image.


 * Unless it's extremely vital, do not create a new category if only one page qualifies. For example, Andrew's Motorcycle is a vehicle but it doesn't make sense to have a "vehicles" category as 1) there's only one known item and 2) vehicles aren't a vital part of Skull & Candy.