The Manual of Style (often abbreviated as Mos or MOS) is a style guide for all Deltora Quest Wiki articles, images and other wiki-related subjects. It helps editors produce consistent articles and keeps Deltora Quest Wiki consistent in layout and style. Consistency in style and formatting promotes clarity and cohesion; this is especially important within an article.
Layout guide
Headings for similar types of articles should be consistent and follow the set layout as shown. The heading should be used in order if needed. Headings in brackets refer to sub-headings in those those headings. Only the first word in each sub-heading needs to be capitalised.
Characters
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Books
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Tribes
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Fauna/Creatures
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Locations
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Flora
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Battles
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Relationships
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Episodes
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Images
All images uploaded to Deltora Quest Wiki must have a copyright template attatched and be categorized where possible and reasonable. Categories for images only apply to characters where there are numurous images of that character.
File extension
Several file extensions are permitted on Deltora Quest Wiki, the most common are .JPG and .PNG. These file types are generally preferable that others.
Usage
Galleries
Galleries are not to be used on articles unless they are absolutely nessaccary. Instead, images should be used
Sourcing
Where possible, if images are taken from a website, they must be sourced. If not, the correct template must be chosen form the Upload form.
Types of images
- Images should come from either the books, anime or any other related Deltora Quest/The Three Doors merchandise.
- Fan art is not allowed on articles, unless for usage on Profile pages.
Formats and cropping
- Changing colors, adding watermarks, text or making montages corrupt the copyright owner's work and is considered to be an ingrigment and the image will therefore be deleted.
- Changing/editing an image under copyright should only be done to improve the overall quality.
Quality
- Images should be of the highest quality avalable.
- The infobox image should depict the character's most typical and regonisable likeness, unless it is logical to do otherwise.