Kiseijuu Wiki:Style Guide

The Article Style Guide is here to help standardize articles throughout the site, such as name spelling or article format.

General format
The first letter of every header and article should automatically be capitalized. However, headers and articles should not be capitalized unless they are names or other proper nouns (i.e. "Shinichi Izumi" vs "Powers & abilities" or "Ryoko Tamiya's mother").

Naming & translation
The title the work this wiki is based on should be referred to as the common English translation, "Parasyte", unless using a direct transliteration. The parasites should be left uncapitalized to minimize confusion with Jaw's first name.

Diacritics (ā, ē, ō, ū) should be avoided in article names, as they are difficult to type and easy to forget. For the most part, they should only be used in direct transliterations to preserve as much accuracy as possible. When transliterating (going from Japanese kanji or hiragana to Latin letters (rōmaji) use the format (kanji, rōmaji). Ideally, this will follow the Hepburn format.

Although most names should be left untranslated, directional names such as "Higashi" (East) should be translated to English.

Names of people are sorted by Last Name, First Name in categories (such as Izumi Nobuko or Tamura Reiko's Child). Example:

Conflict between mediums
Due to the greater amount of info in the manga, it should be used as the default basis of story info such as plot. Anime info that does not contradict the manga can be inserted without remark. Anime or movie info that does contradict the manga should be added in a footnote, or inserted in the trivia section. The code should look like this: Example

Warning: ''this guide is a work in progress below this point. Do not change anything to meet these standards for now.''

=Character=

Name of article (Kanji, transliteration). Summarizing paragraph.

Background (or) History (if any)
Any information that occurred before the beginning of the manga, such as those learned through flashbacks.

Trivia

 * Listed trivia

=Major Event= Name of article. Summarizing paragraph.

Trivia

 * Listed trivia

=Location= Name of article (Kanji, transliteration). Summarizing paragraph.

Trivia

 * Listed trivia

=Anime=

Japanese voice cast

 * List of Japanese voice cast

English voice cast

 * List of English voice cast

Episodes
[table of episodes]

Trivia

 * List of trivia

Links
=Episode # = Name of article (Kanji, transliteration). Descriptive paragraph.

Overview
A short paragraph listing off major events in the chapter.

Summary
A more detailed passage of the plot.

Finish with "The episode ends with (closing scene)." to indicate the end of the episode.

Trivia

 * List of Trivia

Navigation
=Manga= Name of article (Kanji, transliteration) is the # th chapter of the Parasyte manga series, written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki.

=Volume # = Name of article.

=Chapter # = Name of article (Kanji, transliteration).

Overview
A short paragraph listing off major events in the chapter.

Summary
A more detailed passage of the plot.

Finish with "The chapter ends with (closing scene)." to indicate the end of the chapter.

Navigation
=Movie= Name of article (Kanji, transliteration).

Differences

 * List of differences

Trivia

 * List of differences

=Soundtrack= Name of article (Kanji, transliteration).

Trivia

 * List of Trivia