Help:Style Guide

The style guide outlines a standard of clean, consistent formatting for articles on this wiki.

The formatting described here is a guideline and can be overridden where circumstances warrant it. These guidelines will never be unerringly perfect for every situation. However, please try your best to keep to the advice outlined in this article so others may use your edits as an example when creating and editing their own articles.

Feel free to discuss the Layout Guide on the |talk page.

Naming articles
All articles should have singular names except for certain situations that it would be unorthodox, such as a word that is never used in singular.

If there are articles that need the same name but have different subjects, you should create a disambiguation page. For example: There is a song and a character named "Mike's Mom." Since the character takes place in the Froggy Fresh universe, its page gets first priority. That is why "Mike's Mom" is the character's page, and "Mike' Mom (song) is the song's page.

Article layout
An article should begin with an introductory lead section, that provide an overview of the topic, briefly summarizing the article for the reader. Followed by the rest of the article divided into sections, each with a section heading. If there are at least four section headings in the article, a navigable table of contents is generated automatically and displayed between the lead and the first heading.

The name of the article should be bolded in its first usage in the lead, as should any alternate names mentioned in the lead. These bolded titles should not have links within them. Ideally, the lead section should be a very basic description of the topic.