User talk:Megadardery/Writing Guidelines

=Quotes= Quotes are ex-subpages given to games pages that feature enough meaningful and/or notable quotes to warrant a separate page. If the game has few quotes which can be included in the game's article without creating an excessively long quotes section, a separate page is unnecessary. This policy page outlines standards that must be followed when creating a quotes sub-page.

Organizing
Quotes will be out in a list (use ), quotes are put between quotation marks, and are italic.

Games
The Name of each quote page would be "List of quotes by [game]". Each quote page will have a standardized header: " " (see here)

Sections should be made for each character, organized by alphabetical order. Quotes should be put under each section, the most stereotypical quotes will be put at the top (i.e. "Mama Mia" for Mario, "Help me, Mario!" for Peach, etc.). Screams ("ahhh"), nonsense and other stuff that sheds absolutely no light on the character ("hi", "okay", etc.) should not be included; when in doubt, or when there's disagreement, discuss on the talk page.

Characters
These pages would only be for recurring characters, as one-shot characters (mostly RPG characters) already have complete quote lists on their parent games' pages. Discretion should also be used when determining what recurring characters should get quotes pages. If a character is major in one game, but only has a few lines in another game or two, there is no point giving them a quote page either: A quotes section with to the major appearance quotes page in the character page, as well as some choice quotes from that and all the quotes from the minor appearance is better.

The name of each quote page would be "List of quotes by [character]". Each quote page will have a standardized header: " "

The first section should be "General", and it will list quotes that appear in more than one appearance; if they only occur a couple times, the appearances can be listed at the bottom of the section, but otherwise, just leave them. The most stereotypical quotes will be put at the top (i.e. "Mama Mia" for Mario, "Help me, Mario!" for Peach, etc.). Generic quotes are allowed here - not things like screams ("ahhh"), nonsense and other stuff that sheds absolutely no light on the character ("hi", "okay", etc.); when in doubt, or when there's disagreement, discuss on the talk page. After that section, go by genre/media type:
 * 1) Platformers
 * 2) Sports
 * 3) Spinoffs
 * 4) RPGs
 * 5) Non-game appearances
 * 6) Misc for commercials ("Mario, Mario, Mario ja nai!" - Peach, NSLU), websites, etc.

Specific series and specific games are given headers, if they produce a large amount of quotes (mostly RPGs); otherwise, the game's name for each quote should be listed following it. All sections should be in chronological order. For the non-game appearances, sections can be given for the different shows, movies, publications, etc., or just list them in the chronological order like the games/series with few quotes.

=Upcoming Proposals=

A writing guideline for the Quote pages

 * see here for the draft.

This Writing Guideline is meant to clear thing of when and how a quote page should be created. Everything of what was written in the draft are rules which are already known. It will be created under the name Quotes. Use the comments section below for comments and suggestions.

Proposer:  & Deadline: MONTH +14, 2013 23:59 GMT