ReLIFE Wiki:Manual of Style

This is the '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.

Writing style

 * Articles should be written in the universal english—American English.
 * Articles for permanently deceased characters should be written in past-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.
 * Exception: characters may be referred to by their first name to better adhere to American English usage, even if in the story nobody calls a certain person by his/her first name at all.
 * 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 the word "current" is opted anywhere in a phrase to refer to something, most probably, it is written in the wrong way. Similarly, if "current" is used in an article, it was likely written wrongly 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.

Proper names of entities

 * Names of Japanese people should be spelled in Western order
 * Example: 織田信長 should be spelled as Nobunaga Oda, not "Oda Nobunaga"
 * Name parts that denotes a type or level of administration/organization/institution should be translated instead of romanized
 * Example: 青葉高等学校 should be translated as Aoba High School, not "Aoba Kōtō Gakkō"
 * If an entity has an official name of Western origin, that name should be used
 * Example: リライフ研究所 has an official western name ReLIFE Laboratory, and it should be used over literal translation of "ReLIFE Research Institute"
 * Names (or name-parts) that are proper nouns of Japanese origin should always be spelled using Modified Hepburn (aka Revised Hepburn) romanization, ignoring any spelling from official Japanese sources (eg the author or Comico) or official licensed English localization (eg Crunchyroll)
 * Example: 夜明了 should be spelled as Ryō Yoake, even though all official sources for the webcomic and anime spell his first name as "Ryo"
 * Example: The capital of Japan should be spelled as Tōkyō, not "Tokyo"

Names of chapter/episodes/volumes etc

 * Webcomic chapters should be named as "Report [chapter number]", eg Report 1
 * Published comic books should be named as "Volume [books number]", eg Volume 1
 * Anime episodes should be named as "Episode [episode number]], eg Episode 1
 * Novel books should be named as "Novel ReLIFE [book number]], eg Novel ReLIFE 1

Other media types should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, to be documented here.

WikiText style

 * Things like  and   are needless, only   should be used.
 * This also applies to links written to denote a plural: don't write the link as ; instead use.
 * Don't bypass redirects using things like  make use of the redirect properly with.
 * Do not use level 5 headings (five "=" signs) in articles, as under the Wikia Oasis skin they cannot be edited without editing the previous heading and can't be distinguished as a heading at all.
 * When using galleries, include  in the parameters of  : this prevents image policy violations by the addition of bad images.

Common improper style changes

 * 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 needless edits, just stick with 3.
 * Do not make edits that do absolutely nothing to change the appearance of the page when it is rendered, such as adding or removing a space between paragraphs, adding underscores in spaces when including an image onto an article, or removing unused parameters from infobox templates. This does nothing except add needless edit revisions to the page history and does not improve the wiki.
 * Do not replace words just because you don't know or understand their meaning. Such edits will be considered disruptive.