Yandere Simulator Wiki:Guidelines

This page documents guidelines to keep in mind while contributing to Yandere Simulator Wiki.

Guidelines are recommendations and best practices; not the rules, standards, or style conventions.

For site-wide rules, see this page.

For help with the editing process, please visit Community Central or contact wiki staff.

For formatting and other nuances, see Manual of Style.

Main guidelines

When contributing to any page, template, or file, keep in mind the following recommendations:

• When applicable, use the "show preview" function before publishing your edit; if it's something major, take a short break or publish it as a draft first.
  • You can also use your sandbox, or user-blog.
  • Generally, making a few edits to one page in a row is fine, however, excessive or constant behavior can be taken as "edits farming".
• If you think about completely rewriting or making a new page, discuss it with other editors first.
• Respect others' work; think before removing unless obvious vandalism, and assume good faith. Contact other editors and the person who added that information first.
• It's highly recommended to read official help pages and guides, especially if you have no prior experience.

Page and its structure

The main and most important principle to keep in mind when working on a wiki is to go from general to particular. This applies on all levels: how pages relate to each other, how to write a page, and how to write its sections. You have to give a general description first, and only then get to details — or move them to a separate page if necessary.

Another important thing to keep in mind is how you use various visual elements and how they align with each other. Every element should be used mindfully and serve a specific purpose; a page should not be a plain wall of text, however, it should not be treated as a children's book either.

The purpose of headings is to separate huge chunks of information that describe topics that can be placed on the same "level". For example, "personality" and "relationships", while may technically affect each other, have no obvious relation that would let one say that one is a subtopic of the other. However, "personality" and "background" do have such a relation, thus, "background" should be a subsection. It's also important to keep in mind that any section should have at least one full paragraph that has at least 5 sentences. In an ideal situation, a page should have a balanced amount of sections and subsections; more than 10 sections without subsections and more than 5 subsections or third-level subsections are equally undesirable and should be avoided. Excessive subsections can be replaced by lists or "fake" subsections that are not included in a table of contents instead.

Images can have either of two purposes: providing essential for understanding information content, or breaking up the walls of text. In the first case, they should be placed accordingly. In the second case, only one image per two paragraphs should be used, and an image should not be bigger than the paragraph it's illustrating.

Templates, such as infoboxes, navboxes, and "notice plates" usually state their intended usage on their pages. Normally, they are used only at the beginning and the end of the page or section.

Files

For naming conventions and specific quality standards, see Manual of Style.

Files are any images, audio, and videos uploaded directly to the wiki itself. It is not necessary to be the author of the file you're uploading, however, the uploader should ensure the quality, acessibility (whether or not they will be visible in both dark and light themes), and necessity (they should be used on at least one page and not be a duplicate).

Miscellaneous recommendations include:

• Do not add multiple images (galleries) in any sections except "gallery" section, unless it's essential for understanding the text or used for navigation.
• Do not add images exclusively or mostly filled with text; if important, put them in the "quotes" section in text format.
• GIF files should go to the gallery section for people with slow or limited connection.

Mass-editing

For mass-replacing text, files, adding or removing categories, etc. on more than ~10 pages, it is highly recommended to use a bot. A bot in this case is a special software that can perform editing tasks semi-automatically; it usually uses a separate account that hides the changes from the Recent Changes page and is operated by an administrator. Currently, the only bot operator is Ŝenezala; contact her if you find a task similar to the above necessary.