Lycoris Recoil Wiki:Manual of Style

This is the Manual of Style for all articles on the Lycoris Recoil Wiki. These guidelines have been carefully considered with the aim of delivering articles of high quality that are pleasant to read, informative and well organised. Please consult this page before undertaking major edits in order to maintain consistency across the wiki.

This page is being updated on an ongoing basis in response to any style issues that arise.

We invite our community to discuss improvements to this guide through this page's talk page, the discussion board or the Lycoris Recoil community Discord's dedicated wiki channel. Should any urgent inquiries arise, do not hesitate to get in touch with one of our Administrators.

Topics
The Lycoris Recoil Wiki focuses on official Lycoris Recoil media and the fictional elements appearing within. Articles should only be created if they belong to this category and are considered relevant enough to warrant their own page. Articles about content adjacent to Lycoris Recoil, such as production staff, merchandise or companies should not be created. Instead, links to their Wikipedia articles can be used when they are mentioned.

Titles and Headings
All article titles and section headings without official names must be written in title case.


 * For example, Kusonoki's Assistant, not Kusonoki's assistant.

Official names, however, are exempt from this rule, and should be written in the same case as they originally appear.


 * For example, Easy does it, not Easy Does It.

Items that fall under this category are:


 * Episode titles
 * Song titles

Page titles must be singular by default, however page introductions may be plural.


 * For example, Cleaner, not Cleaners.

Do not use " A ", " An " or " The " to precede a page title or section heading.


 * For example, Alan Institute, not The Alan Institute.

Links or references must not be used in section headings.

Section Order
To ensure consistency, all articles must follow the same fundamental layout.


 * 1) Hatnotes
 * 2) Notices
 * 3) Infobox
 * 4) Article content (Refer to Page Layout for specific page types)
 * 5) Trivia
 * 6) Gallery
 * 7) References
 * 8) Categories
 * 9) Languages

Perspective
Articles describing fictional events, characters and other elements of the Lycoris Recoil universe should be written from an in-universe, third-person perspective, i.e., as if they existed in real life. This means that content should be contextualized around events, not episodes or chapters.


 * For example, instead of writing " In Episode 1... ", one should write " After Takina's arrival at Café LycoReco... ".

Articles about topics outside the universe, such as the anime, manga or music as well as the sections Trivia and Introduction are exempt from this rule. These should be written from a third-person perspective, without being strictly bound by in-universe wording.

Articles should aim to deliver an objective point of view. This means that personal opinions, biases and inferences should be omitted. Unless a statement can be definitively backed up by canon content and properly referenced, it is not appropriate to include in an article.

Tone
Being an encyclopedia, a formal writing style should be used. This means writing in full, well structured sentences and avoiding the use of slang and abbreviations. Contractions should also be avoided. Instead, full form words should be used.


 * For example, could not, he is and should have , not couldn't , he's and should've