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 * When listing information and someone has been replaced by someone else in the plot, the person who was chronologically first should be listed first.
 * Articles should be written in US English, not British 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, so 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 "Sesshōmaru," "Myōga," 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 (e.g. if 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.