User:公的驱逐舰/Manual of Style

This is an Proposal draft. It is not an official policy of Moegirlpedia.

General

1. Observe the Chicago Manual of Style.

Titles

1. Italicize titles of a major literary work with the template {{Italic title}}.
2. Put titles of short literary work in quotations with the template. Do not use quotations in article titles.
3. Follow other spelling and romanization conventions outlined in this manual when they apply.
4. Do not use characters or phrases that is technically restricted.

Spelling

National varieties

article with strong national ties

1. Follow local conventions. An article whose subject relates to the Commonwealth nations, Hong Kong, etc. should use British English spellings; those whose subject relates to the United States, etc. should use American spellings.

Follow established conventions

Follow previous conventions. For articles not directly related to English-speaking countries and territories, follow the already-used spelling convention in the article.

Keep spelling consistent

Keep spelling convention consistent throughout an article and, preferably, throughout a series.

Foreign languages

General

1. When mentioning a foreign word in the article, use one of the below method.
   1. Translation-Original.
      • The so-called “Children's Pass” (Spanish: Pase para Niños)...
   2. Romanization-Original-Translation.
      • A special feature is called Danmu (Chinese: 弹幕, lit. “bullet curtain”), which...
   3. Translation-Original-Romanization.
      • “Bullet Curtain” (Japanese: 弾幕, Danmaku), sometimes called “Bullet Hell”, refers to...
2. For links, provide explanation in English and source language with {{languageicon}}.
   • See also: Arknight's official website (Chinese)...
3. The language and translation may be provided as part of a surrounding text.
   • Luftwaffe, the German air force, reacted...
4. If a different romanization or translation scheme was used already and already accepted as a convention (e.g. Shaanxi, Hong Kong, Taipei), always use that romanization.
   • Taibei Taipei; Toohoo Touhou
5. Keep all diacritics originally present in latin scripts.
6. If a language is not in the list below, follow the English world convention.
7. If the appearance of an unlisted language grow in EnMGP, or if there is a dispute about romanization conventions, open a discussion thread on the discussion board.

Chinese

1. Romanize Chinese with standard pinyin with no diacritic marks and appropriate capitalization, unless
   1. there is a widely used romanization already taken as the convention; then, use that romanization
   2. the usage calls for accurate pinyin specifically; then, provide standard pinyin with standard diacritic marks
2. Romanize Cantonese with Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanization if necessary.

Dates and time

No abberviations

Always provide full date and time; avoid abbreviations except to save space in informational templates or the like.

Gregorian calendar

Always provide date and time in the Gregorian calendar for dates on or after 14 September 1752 (Gregorian), unless:

1. There is a strong tie to a country and this country, at the time mentioned, continued to use the Julian calendar. Use the Julian calendar, and use the page-top template {{Julian Calendar}} accordingly.
2. There is a strong tie to a country and this country, at the time mentioned, uses a calendar different from Gregorian or Julian. Provide the Gregorian date with the date in the respective calendar in parentheses after it.
3. The date mentioned is on or after 1 January 1950. Use the Gregorian calendar; you do not have to provide any other calendar system unless it is essential to the topic (in that case, fall back to term 2).

day-month-year

Provide full dates in the day-month-year format. For example, today will be 25 November 2024.

month-day

Provide dates without years in the month-day format with plain numbers. For example, today will be November 25.

U.S. dates

For pages with strong U.S. ties:

1. the month-day-year format is acceptable; use superscripted ordinal number for the date, or use {{Date-o-matic}} accordingly. For example, today will be November 25^th, 2024.
2. superscripted ordinal numbers may be used for dates without years. For example, today will be November 25^th.

If these superscripted ordinal numbers are used, they must be used consistently throughout the article.

time zones

If time are to be provided, provide the time zone in either the UTC offset or the time zone abbreviation along with it. For example, the server time when this page has loaded is either 00:52:33 UTC+00:00 or 00:52:33 UTC.

The page-top template{{timezone}} may be used so the editor do not have to mark the time zone for every time appeared in the article.

24-hour system

If time are to be provided, use the 24-hour system.

Ancient dates

Provide date and time in the Julian calendar for dates from 1 January 45 BCE to 13 September 1752 CE inclusive, unless:

1. There is a strong tie to a country and this country, at the time mentioned, had adopted the Gregorian calendar, yet it is before 1752; use the Gregorian calendar, and use the page-top template {{Gregorian before 1752}} accordingly.
2. There is a strong tie to a country and this country, at the time mentioned, uses a calendar different from Gregorian or Julian. Provide the Julian date with the date in the respective calendar in parentheses after it.

If you are to provide (accurate) dates before 1752 CE, provide appropriate citations to prove the accuracy. If you cannot, use the year only.

English Moegirlpedia has no currently established style guide on dates before 1 January 45 BCE, for one is not expected to write about times before 45 BCE in Moegirlpedia.

See also

/Templates and Categories