Style Manual

This is a Style Manual for editors of the Harvest Moon Wiki.

When using a Wiki and having many different contributors at once, inevitably, articles can be written in many different ways. To help prevent arguments about how the Wiki should be run, these guidelines have been devised to help keep things organized and inform Wiki contributors on how to layout certain things.

Feedback is encouraged on the talk page.

Comments

When adding comments, please use proper grammer and try to use proper punctuation. If an admin sees a comment that doesn't have it then they will probably edit it to make it easier to understand.

Plz u just sed was that y she didnt go and see Tim loke OMG

No advertising other sites. The comment will automatically be deleted and a warning message will be posted on your wall.

Please support http://www.randomnameIjustmadeup.com I've already completed the game and began supporting this wiki.

No using all caps. If you want a part of your comment to stand out use bold.

HAHAHA WOW THATS HILARIOUS!11!!1!

No swearing or name calling. It still counts if you leave out a letter or use a different symbol.

Tim you're such a fucin a$$ wh0le. Sh*t you make me furious!!!

When replying to a comment, please press reply. Don't answer above.

Please don't ask questions on pages, there's a help desk for that. Questions like release date, who's your favourite marriage candidate, which do prefer...Ect are fine. Just no in dept questions.

Does anyone know how to unlock Tim? I've sold like 1000 flowers but he still won't move in. Can someone tell me in excruciating detail how I'm supposed to accomplish this?

No conversation comments, that's what user pages and chat is for.

Hi everyone! My name is Tim and I'm 12 years old. I love flowers!

Pictures

Pictures are an important feature in any article. When adding pictures be sure that:

The picture is actually either from the game or an official pic.
- Pictures like this should not be added to any wiki page, but there is no problem adding them to your user page or blog posts.
When adding pages to this wiki please do not upload them and then just leave them floating around the wiki, as in not adding them to pages.
Make sure that the name is appropriate to the picture. For example, if you upload a picture of Nami the picture's name shouldn't be svjgfvasdkhfhgaksdbgakjsdkj.png, it should be Nami.png, or something similar (Like Nami2.png.)
All pictures added should be put under categories, like a picture of Allen should be put under a category called Land of Beginning so its easier to find.
If the picture doesn't have a caption it shouldn't be a thumb image.
Placeholders should always be deleated.

Ediring Pictures

Please use a cutting tool to make the trim as small as possible. Here is a good site for something like this. There is an example of a picture with too much trim on the right:

Please change the colour of the picture's background to either white, or clear. The code for white is #ffffff. Here is a good page to use. Unless it is a screenshot.

Article Layout

An article begins with a short description of the article, with its title in bold. Games titles are in bold italics.

For example the page for Muffy from Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life would be:

Muffy is a bachelorette from Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.

Do not add personal opinions to the pages - e.g. adding to a page that a character is ugly or similar. This does not contribute anything to the information on the Wiki and counts as spam and will be removed.

Game Pages

Game pages will be set out in this way:

Infobox
Introduction [brief description of the game]
Story [how the story of the game is set up before gameplay begins].
Gameplay [the goals of the game, and is a heading for the following links on aspects of the game]

Farming [information on crops, animals, fish, tools, etc. These are listed and put on separate pages]

Setting [Where the game is set, list of locations. If possible, the different places should have their own pages]
Character List

Bachelors/Bachelorettes
Villagers

Guides [to the game, or lists of recipes, etc]
Others [links to relevant pages]
Category.

Game Category [e.g. Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town page in the Friends of Mineral Town category]
System

Game Pages Guidelines

In the 'Story' section, refer to the main character as 'the player', or by gender instead. When talking about things that the game player can do (e.g. "the game player can befriend Won"), using 'you' instead is also acceptable.

Character Pages

Character Nav Boxes are still being created, but the existing ones are in Category:Character Templates. Character Nav Boxes are used to link character pages in a specific game to those of the same game.

Character pages are set out thus:

Character info box, including picture.
Short description of character - this does NOT need to be in a seperate category. It can be typed to be placed on the side of the info box. See example here.
Gifts - what it is that a character likes, dislikes, and loves.
Schedule - this may be added if there is a specific schedule that a character follows. This is not necessary, but may be helpful to some players.
Marriage Requirements - *only if the character is a bachelor or bachelorette.
Heart Events - This will help other players looking at a page with the specific bachelor or bachelorette in their own game. *This is only if a character is a bachelor or bachelorette.
Rival Heart Events - same as above, only applies to bachelors and bachelorettes.
Anything Extra - extra or miscellaneous information should be placed at the end of an article. This can include a list of festivals, events, or random facts about a character.
Nav Box, if any. These are generally templates that have been created for each game. Please visit the template page to find these nav boxes, or see if it already exists on another page.

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