Equestria RP Lore:Style Manual

This is the official Equestria RP Lore Style Manual, a set of guidelines which should be adhered to when creating and editing pages on this wiki. The purpose of this guide is to maintain a constant level of quality throughout the wiki.

Please don't be intimidated by these guidelines. Your contributions are welcome even if they do not perfectly conform to what's below. These guidelines are meant to channel—not impede—your efforts! If what you contribute doesn't conform precisely to these guidelines, no doubt it will be honed by other members of the community. This wiki is, after all, always a work in progress.

Introduction
This Style Manual constitutes the official style protocols for Equestria RP Lore. When editing articles or creating new ones, this document should be used as a reference point and guidelines for all content. It is strongly recommended that you [ add it to your watchlist] so that you can track whenever it's updated and incorporate the changes into your editing, helping to keep the whole site in conformity.

Tone
As the idea of this wiki is to chronicle the happenings and lives of those who live in Equestria the tone of all articles should be encyclopedic as much as possible. This means that personal views and opinions should be eschewed in favor of objective view points and non-biased recording.

Copyrighted Material
Copyrighted material may be incorporated into this wiki only if you have the copyright holder's permission or the material is under a licence which allows for it. Remember that just because you found something on the web doesn't mean that it isn't copyrighted.

Remember that My Little Pony and Friendship is Magic are copyrighted by Hasbro and that any use of their material should fall under fair-use only. This site does not claim any rights thereto.

All material posted on this site is licensed under creative commons. You can find more information on this by clicking on the license link at the bottom of the page.

Types of Articles
What kinds of articles are we looking for on this wiki? Anything that will help us chronicle both the mythology of the role play and of those who do the role playing. This includes places, ponies, events, items, magics, etc which have all been created by the users of EQRP as well as the canon set pieces and characters which have come from Friendship is Magic in light of role play.

Articles not Appropriate
Articles which do not fall within the purview of EQRP are not appropriate for this wiki. For example, if a pony likes cherry pie, unless cherry pie has significance within the history of Equestria, there should not be an article dedicated to it.

Articles which are pure speculation or opinion are also not appropriate for articles. They can, however, be used in discussion pages for their appropriate subjects.

External Wiki Links
Some articles may not need to be replicated on Equestria RP. For these kinds of articles, use an interwiki link. Do this as such: wikipedia:My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Linking like this will produce a blue link: wikipedia:My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. We prefer this method to external linking individual articles. Note that this can be used for images as well.

While you can find an list of all interwiki prefixes by going to Special:Interwiki, the most common ones we will use are:
 * wikipedia: for encyclopedic articles
 * commons: for wiki common articles and sources
 * mlp: for My Little Pony specific articles (ex. In the episode Dragonshy, Fluttershy confronts a dragon. )

Characters
Characters pages should include the Character Template in their page. Character page titles should be as they appear on EQRP. If the name of the character would normally have a space make the page with the space, but set up a redirect for the name as it appears on EQRP. For example, for the character Twilight Sparkle a page should be created titled "Twilight Sparkle" and another page titled "TwilightSparkle" should redirect to it. this is to ensure that site character names can be easily mapped to the wiki.

Players
Player pages should include the Player Template in their page. Player page titles should have the " (player)" suffix added to them. Only one player page per physical player is allowed.

We don't want to use the User namespace for players, so if you want, add a redirect to your user page that leads to your player page.
 * Example: For User:Tsunami add " #REDIRECT Tsunami (player) " as the first line

Editing Player Pages
The player pages are not the same as user profiles as they can be edited by anyone. Keep in mind that you will be editing pages that represent other, real people. Malicious editing of these pages can result in disciplinary action on both the wiki and on EQRP proper.

Citing EquestriaRP.net posts
When referring to specific occasions in the role-playing narrative for your character or other article, it may be desirable to include a reference to a post on EQRP. To do this, you will need to use the tags. See wikipedia:Help:Footnotes for more technical information on how to use references. For our purposes here, you would want to do the following: After much labor, Tsunami finally released the wiki to public use. which will render thus: After much labor, Tsunami finally released the wiki to public use. At the bottom of your article you will need to add or which will render as:

Any normal wiki syntax works in the tags. You may also link directly to conversations using this method.