InuYasha Wiki:Writing policy

These are some policies on how articles should be written.


 * Articles should be written in the third person in past tense. Articles should always be written in past-tense, not present or future tense.
 * When listing information and someone has been replaced by someone else in the plot, the person who was chronologically first should be listed first.
 * Current should never be used in an article. (Articles are meant to be read not by people up to date with the latest manga, but by anyone who is up to any point of the anime or manga. The InuYasha manga and anime have ended, and there is no longer any "current" anyhow.)
 * Articles should be written in British English, not US English.
 * Articles should be written in an in-universe style, and not refer to the reader or viewer when talking about events.

WikiText style

 * Headers should be in the form ==Header==, not the form == Header ==. This only applies to articles, image pages use == Summary == automatically and talkpages are free form and no changes should ever be made to header style.
 * Things like  and   are pointless, only   should be used.

Common improper style changes

 * Do not change the character name "Inuyasha" to "InuYasha". "Inuyasha" is the character name and "InuYasha" is the series name.
 * Do not change "Tessaiga" to "Tetsusaiga" or "Tetsaiga."
 * Do not change "Sesshomaru," "Myoga," or anything else to a uu or ou such as "Sesshoumaruu," or "Myouga."
 * Do not go adding last names to links unless you have a valid reason to do so (full character name hasn't been used earlier in the article). Full names should not be abused to bypass redirects.
 * Do not change page numbers in ref tags to have a leading zero. Going around the wiki and changing 3 to 03 despite most pages sticking to 3 doesn't improve the wiki at all and just adds pointless edits, just stick with 3.