The Manual of Style is the style manual for all Roblox BIG Paintball Wiki articles. It describes the guidelines that should be followed when there is doubt or disagreement about which style to follow in articles. The style manual also gives useful information and advice on article formatting and templates.
Principles
This style guide has multiple purposes. One of them is to resolve conflicts among editors. Another is to suggest good style: some style guidelines are subjective preferences, but others are preferable for objective reasons, either because they are standard and commonly accepted or because they have advantages such as resolving ambiguities. The most important purpose of this style guide, though, is consistency among Roblox BIG Paintball Wiki articles and inside articles; thus it is preferable for an article to use the wrong style everywhere than for it to use the right style in one place and the wrong style everywhere else. This is why whenever you write an article, you should pick one style and stick to it throughout the article, and whenever you contribute new content to an article, you should follow the style currently adopted in that article.
In case of doubt
For all of the matters not discussed on this page, you should refer to the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style or to the simplified version. This manual is too large to memorize and is meant as a reference in case of disagreement between editors or doubt about which style to follow in an article. Just like you're not expected to memorize the entire dictionary before you start writing in English, you don't have to memorize the entire manual of style to contribute to articles on this wiki.
Article structure and titles
This section describes how articles should be structured and section titles formatted.
Titles
Article titles and section titles should be written in sentence case.
Dates, numbers, currencies
This section deals with formatting of dates, numbers, and currencies.
Dates and time
Dates should be formatted like October 3, 2016 or 3 October 2016, not October 3rd, 2016, October 03, 2016, 2016/10/3, or any other format. The ISO 8601 format yyyy-mm-dd can be used in tables and other locations where the dates need to be short: 2016-10-03. In templates, the #time parser function can be used, while mw.language:formatDate can be used in Scribunto modules.
Numbers
Numbers should be formatted with a comma as the thousands separator for digit grouping and a period as the decimal separator. In templates, the formatnum parser function can be used for this purpose, while mw.language:formatNum can be used in Scribunto modules.
Numbers smaller than ten should usually be written as words instead of digits in article text.
Style
Since the Roblox BIG Paintball Wiki is an encyclopedia, standard English should be followed in articles. American English should be preferred to other variants of English.
- Avoid comma splices. That is, independent clauses should be separated by a semicolon, a period, a colon or an em dash, but not by a comma.
- Profanity should not be used in articles, except where its use is appropriate in an encyclopedic context, such as in quotations.
- Avoid contractions like wasn't and it's in articles.
English and correct grammar should be used at all times when creating or editing articles.
The article name should be written as it appears in game, including punctuation, capitalization, and spelling errors.
Any text directly from the game or description should be directly copied and not be changed (including typos).
All article content should be in a neutral tone, as the wiki is for information and not opinions.
- Opinions should be left for article comments and the discussions page.
Articles should always be written in third-person, not first-person. All information must be correct and verified directly from the game, the developers, the game's staff, or the game's social media.
Specific Articles
Articles about BIG Paintball 2 Weapons
Since in BIG Paintball 2, in contrast to BIG Paintball Classic, all weapons of a class are very similar, only the differences should be shown, e.g. what visual effect a hit has. These are only ever profiles.
Layout
- Quote
- Infobox WeaponBP2
- Overview
- Type
- Series
- Perks (only for Contraband)
- Effects (only for Contraband and Legendary)
What an item should NOT contain:
- Strategy or use, reason: these already result from the weapon type, the use of weapon types is very individual and hardly neutral possible, so please create a blog post for this.
- Prices
Articles about BIG Paintball Classic Weapons
Layout
- Quote
- Heading - Overview
- Infobox - Weapon
- Write a paragraph of how the weapon is used, its stats, etc.
- Heading - Strategy
- Write a paragraph of what the best strategy is to be used with the weapon.
- Heading - Trivia
- Write bullet points about it's trivia
Links
- BIG Paintball Wiki Guidelines
- BIG Paintball Wiki Staff
- Fandom Info Editing - How Do I Contribute to A Wiki?