Fringepedia:Manual of Style
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Standard U.S. English
- Use standard U.S. English, to include U.S. spelling, because FRINGE is produced in the United States. FRINGE is not a blog. Use standard grammar and complete sentences. Contractions are not appropriate in articles and theories; they may be used in talk.
Tense
- Use present tense to discuss events in the characters' present in an episode article (Olivia and Peter drive to the laboratory.).
- Use simple past tense to discuss events in the characters' past in an episode article (The day before, Olivia flew back from New York.).
- Use past tense in non-episode articles that are clearly historical in nature (The Oversight Committee was formed to investigate the Pattern.).
Titles
Titles, including headlines, will be in initial uppercase except for articles, conjunctions and prepositions; however, an article, conjunction or preposition will also be in initial uppercase if that word is the first word in the title.
Examples:
The Taming of the Shrew
Of Mice and Men
And Then There Were None
The Same Old Story
Page titles about individuals with honorifics will not include the honorific; if experience demonstrates a need a redirect page may be created which does include the honorific in the title to transfer focus to the page without the honorific.
Dates
- Use cardinal versus ordinal numbers in dates: September 9, 2008 versus September 9th, 2008. To date FRINGE has been vague about the current date.
Referring to the series
Fringepedia has adopted FRINGE as the method of referring to the series; typing {{frnge}} will echo the desired format to the screen.
Referring to Other Episodes
Use the Ep template (format {{Ep|101}} echoes Pilot to the screen) to refer to episodes from within another article or other page as a part of continuous text.
Use the Crossref template (format {{Crossref|101}} echoes (Pilot) to the screen) to refer to episodes parenthetically from within another article or other page.
Page Elements
Episode Pages
Contents
A system generated list of the contents of the page, based on headlines used on the page.
Infobox Episode
A table aligned to the upper right of the page with summary information about the episode.
About
A short summary of the epsisode.
Synopsis
This is a summary of what happened during the episode. At the beginning, it may match an official or unofficial recapulation, but will change as Fringepedia members analyse the events.
Trivia
These are the small things that count. There are subcategories; see the format reference page.
Episode references
Crossreferences to events in other episodes
Unanswered questions
Items that are left hanging; they may be settled at a later time. This item does not include answers to the questions.
External links
Links outside the wiki. Note, the Wikipedia is an internal link.
Character Pages
Character pages are generally created by copying the Character Shell to the empty page and filling in the different sections. The shell includes the different templates required to format the page according to the desired style. If the information added is only a stub and needs to be expanded, add a {{character-stub}} to the page. A message will be added inviting users to expand on the topic.
Infobox Character
Summary information about the character, including a picture and a link to the corresponding Cast page. The infobox also tracks appearances of the character and must be updated accordingly as they appear in new episodes.
About
Summary of the character's involvement in the plot.
Background
Background information on the character.
Quotes
Quotes from the character, if applicable.
Appearances
Episodes where the character appears.
Trivia
These are the small things that count.
Unanswered Questions
Items that are left hanging; they may be settled at a later time. This item does not include answers to the questions.
