The Article Style Guide is here to help standardize articles throughout the site, such as name spelling or article format.
Contents
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: {{DEFAULTSORT: Izumi Shinichi}}
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: <ref> Text example</ref> Example [1]
Warning: this guide is a work in progress below this point. Do not change anything to meet these standards for now.
Character
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| Personal statistics | |
| Name | {{{name}}} |
| Characteristics | |
| Series statistics | |
Name of article (Kanji, transliteration). Summarizing paragraph.
Appearance
Personality
Background (or) History (if any)
Any information that occurred before the beginning of the manga, such as those learned through flashbacks.
Plot
Powers & abilities
Weaknesses
Trivia
- Listed trivia
Major Event
Name of article. Summarizing paragraph.
Description
Plot
Trivia
- Listed trivia
Location
Name of article (Kanji, transliteration). Summarizing paragraph.
Description
Plot
Trivia
- Listed trivia
Anime
Synopsis
Staff
Voice Cast
Japanese voice cast
- List of Japanese voice cast
English voice cast
- List of English voice cast
Episodes
[table of episodes]
Media
Music
Other Videos
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.
Characters
Scrolling box template
- List of characters
Trivia
- List of Trivia
| Parasyte -the maxim- |
| List of Episodes | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | ||
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.
Characters
Scrolling box template
- List of characters
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Movie
Name of article (Kanji, transliteration).
Plot
Cast
Differences
- List of differences
Trivia
- List of differences
Soundtrack
Name of article (Kanji, transliteration).
Visuals (if any)
Characters (if any)
Scrolling box template
- List of characters
List of tracks (if any)
Trivia
- List of Trivia
- ↑ Text example