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This is the Narutopedia's Manual of Style, please do not do any reorganization and cleanup of wikitext on the wiki unless you are fixing things to follow this style guideline.

Section order

  • (main) - The beginning section with general intro. This is the one without a section name.
  • Background - Historical and background information on the character.
  • Personality - Information on the character's personality.
  • Abilities - Information on the characters special abilities and techniques.
  • Other info - Things like Naruto's history with the Demon fox should be placed in this area. Or perhaps made as a subsection of an appropriate section.
  • Part in the Story - Section container, the characters actions within the story would be here.
    • Part I
      • Some arc
    • Part II
      • Some other arc
  • Trivia - Trivia items. Organized in list format using * at the start of the line (Stylistically a space after that * would be nice.)
  • Quotes - Character quotes. The character shouting out a Jutsu name shouldn't be considered a jutsu though. Organized in the same way as Trivia. If there are multiple language forms to a character quote, it should link to an article like Dattebayo and Believe it!.
  • References - Just the ==References== section with a <references/> tag below it. To collect the <ref></ref> tag info in the page. Individual bits of info should be tagged with specific citation other than just the general sources section.

Notes

  • We use "Part II", not "Shippūden" for headers, otherwise we would be using "Naruto" for Part I which would be confusing and unnecessary.
  • The Part I and/or Part II headers should be dropped for any character who only appears in one part or do not have a large appearance in the other (Like the Akatsuki which only make minor appearance in Part I)
  • A lot of articles on the wiki haven't been style fixed, use of the ==Part in the Story== header is the proper form, please do not remove these just because you see them missing in other pages.
  • When used in articles arc headers should be in the form "Some Named arc" not "Some Named Arc".
  • "filler" should not be inserted into arc names.

Writing style

  • Articles should be written in past-tense, not present or future tense.
  • Articles should be written in an in-universe style, and not refer to the reader or viewer when talking about events.

WikiText style

  • Headers should be in the form ==Header==, not the form == Header ==. This only applies to articles, image pages use == Summary == automatically and talkpages are free form and no changes should ever be made to header style.
  • Things like [[chidori|chidori]] and [[Chidori|chidori]] are pointless, only [[chidori]] should be used.
  • Don't bypass redirects using things like [[Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke]] make use of the redirect properly with [[Sasuke]].

Common improper style changes

  • Do not change "Pain" to "Pein", "Pain" is the correct name.
  • Do not use "Shippuuden", use the proper "Shippūden". Please either copy the name from somewhere, or make use of the ū in the box below the edit box.
  • Do not go adding last names to links unless you have a valid reason to do so (full character name hasn't been used earlier in the article). Full names should not be abused to bypass redirects.
  • Do not change page numbers in ref tags to have a leading zero. Going around the wiki and changing 3 to 03 despite most pages sticking to 3 doesn't improve the wiki at all and just adds pointless edits, just stick with 3.
  • For the Sage Mode and its techniques, we use "Sage" instead of "Hermit".

See also

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