Hellsing Wiki:Manual of Style

The Manual of Style is the outline that all "good" quality articles on the Hellsing Wiki should follow- that is, articles that cannot be classified as "stubs" or "Articles that Need Help". Not all articles might be organized by these guidelines at present, but we will try our best to adhere to them! See it as just another way you can help us.

Characters
All articles for any character should have a Character infobox. Those that are in the Hellsing Organization should have a Hellsing Infobox, those in Iscariot should have an Iscariot infobox, and those in Millennium should have a Millennium Infobox.

Sections on character pages should preferably be organized in this order:
 * Introduction paragraph
 * Appearance
 * Preferably, add "Physical" and "Clothing" Sub-sections, for reference, use the Alucard, or, if the character uses more than one clothing, it should be separated with the tabbers, for reference use the Seras Victoria/Anime page.
 * Personality
 * History
 * Relationships (optional; usually used with protagonists)
 * Preferably, add "Allies" and "Enemies", or if the character has at least one, add a "Family" sub-section, but this is optional.
 * Weapons
 * If the character has more weapons that at least three, make a separate page for the weapons of the character. For reference, use Seras Victoria/Weapons.
 * Quotes (optional)
 * Trivia (optional)

Note

 * If the History section are too long, make a separate page for it, same goes with Quotes and Relationships and also Weapons.

Weapons
Weapon articles should have a Weapon infobox and should have sections in exactly this order:


 * Introduction paragraph- includes primary user and the type of weapon it is
 * "Profile"- Includes appearance, and any weapons in the real world that might have inspired it)
 * "Usage"- includes how and when the weapon is used in the anime, manga, and/or OVA plot
 * Under guns: a "Bullets and Rounds" sub-section
 * Known Users

Writing Style

 * Characters - Events timeline on character articles should be written in the third person past tense. Other sections of the article should be in the third person present tense if the said character is not deceased.
 * Chapters/Episodes - Summary articles for chapters and episodes, pages should be written in third person present tense.
 * Articles should be written in an in-universe style, this includes calling characters by what they were called at this point in the story, and not refer to the reader or viewer when talking about events.
 * Articles should be independent of any point in the series, it should not be required that pages be updated every time a new event happens in the timeline simply because articles were written from the perspective of someone reading on the latest chapter.
 * If you use the word "current" anywhere in a phrase to refer to something, you likely wrote it the wrong way. Similarly, if "current" is used in an article, it was likely written incorrectly and should be fixed.
 * Walls of text in articles should be avoided where possible. Shorter paragraphs are easier to read and are more concise for readers of the wiki. Articles containing walls of text should be fixed to ensure readability.

WikiText Style

 * Things like  and   are pointless, only   should be used.
 * This also applies to links written to denote a plural: don't write the link as ; instead use.
 * In the case of pages containing undesirable words (mainly brackets), it is appropriate to use alternative display text.
 * Don't bypass redirects using things like  make use of the redirect properly with.
 * More information about why redirect bypass is bad can be found here: Wikipedia:Redirect#Do not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken
 * The preferred form for headers is ==header title== : this makes it easier to distinguish when editing pages, rather than being part of the text.
 * Do not use level 5 headings in articles, as they cannot be edited without editing the previous heading and can't be distinguished as a heading at all.