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Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki:Manual of Style

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The Manual of Style is the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki editor's guideline that outlines a standard of clean, consistent formatting for articles within the wiki.

Officialism

The wiki is made to cover everything about the official Five Nights at Freddy's franchise by Scott Cawthon along with associated companies, including Steel Wool Studios, Illumix, and Mega Cat Studios.

Anything that is unofficial or unlicensed should be kept out of the pages. These include but not limited to: Fanarts, fan fiction, OCs (fan characters), unlicensed fan games, and bootleg merchandise.

Franchise

Pages with content related to anything about the franchise (games, books, etc.) made by Scott Cawthon and other official companies are acceptable. Although there are tons of distinctive series that belong to their own continuity and canon, as listed below:

Fanverse

The Fazbear Fanverse games are fan-made games that were officially licensed for the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, so any related articles are also allowed. What series' content we permit include:

Keep in mind that not everything can be published as pages for this wiki, but still can be mentioned in articles. This includes:

  • Pre-rebooted or older versions of the games. POPGOES' 2016 version and the pre-remastered Five Nights at Candy's are some of the examples. This also applies to non-Fanverse images, excluding images for the Fanverse series' pages.
  • Cancelled projects, including One Week at Flumpty's, POPGOES: Reprinted, POPGOES Finale, etc.
  • Projects of the franchise that were not a part of the Fanverse. The Joy of Creation: Halloween Edition is a prime instance.

Merchandise

The Five Nights at Freddy's brand has a massive batch of merchandise products and are totally much accepted as long as they were produced by official brands, including Funko, Sanshee, and more others. However, merchandise made as unlicensed bootlegs or by fans are unacceptable, which also goes to any sort of apparels with the only exception of T-shirts.

Templates

To use templates, see Category:Templates.

Era Templates

The template is used to denote what universe or canon a piece of media exists in. The code for the era template is as follows: (double {'s)Era|codeword|more codewards as needed(double }'s). For more examples, check the top of any applicable page's source code. They will be placed at the top of a page's source code and will appear above the page title but will not appear in visual edit mode. Codewords are listed below.

  • article1 = FNaF-Universe content.
  • coreseries = Primary Five Nights at Freddy's universe content.
  • fnafgames = Core Five Nights at Freddy's game content (e.g FNaF 1, FNaF: SL, NOT spin-offs like FW or content in games).
  • fw = FNaF World content.
  • fis = Freddy in Space content.
  • fr = Fury's Rage content.
  • itp = Into the Pit GAME content (not to be used on any book content - that has a unique identifier).
  • flaf = Five Laps at Freddy's content.
  • sc = Survival Crew content.
  • noveltrilogy = Novel trilogy content.
  • ff = Fazbear Frights series content.
  • tftp = Tales from the Pizzaplex content.
  • in = Interactive Novel content.
  • movie = Film series content.
  • article2 = Fazbear Fanverse content.
  • cpu = Candy + Popgoes Universe content.
  • fnac = Five Nights at Candy's content.
  • fur = FNAC FUR content.
  • popgoes = General POPGOES content (NOT myPOPGOES or POPGOES Arcade - those have unique identifiers).
  • popgoesarcade = POPGOES Arcade content.
  • mypopgoes = myPOPGOES content.
  • tjoc = THE JOY OF CREATION content.
  • onaf = One Night at Flumpty's content.
  • fnafplus = FNaF Plus content.

The priority of codewords should be as follows: Article type codeword (article1/2) --> universe type (e.g coreseries, cpu, ff, tftp) -> individual game (e.g popgoesarcade, flaf). Pages relating to content appearing in the primary game universe should use both the coreseries and fnafgames codewords in that order. Contact Ambrosia if you are unsure of the priority of the Era template codewords or look at pages in the same universe with similar content.

Notice Templates

Please make sure to place the notice template between the article-type template and the disambiguation text when adding.

  • Cleanup - For pages with disorganized or missing content, load of poor-quality images, cluttered with speculations, etc.
  • Conjecture - For pages with the unofficial name title.
  • Crossover - For pages about specific official crossovers.
  • Delete - Only used for pages that fell under rule violations.
  • EmptySection - Only for sections that has no content.
  • Non-Fanverse - For sections or pages that contain non-Fanverse content.
  • Noncanon - For pages or sections that contain content deemed as not canon to any series' lore.
  • RejectedMaterial - For pages about unused and removed materials.
  • RemovedContent - For pages about content that is no longer officially available.
  • Speculation - For pages' sections with lists of popular theories and speculations.
  • SpoilerNotice - For pages with content related to the newly-released games, books, etc. Same applies to archive pages (e.g: Animatronics and Bots).
  • Stub - For pages with smaller info.
  • UpcomingContent - For any pages that contain content related to the franchise's future installments.
  • UpcomingProject - For any pages about the franchise's future installments.

USA Spellings

The Five Nights at Freddy's franchise is created in USA (United States of America), and thus traditional American spellings must be used when editing pages. For instance, use "color" instead of "colour", "theater" instead of "theatre", "organize" instead of "organise", and so on.

Third-Person Edit

Pages should always be written in third-person by using the protagonists' names (or player for common uses) instead of second-person (e.g: "you" or "we"). For example, it should say "The player must pay attention to the animatronics' movements." rather than "You must pay attention to the animatronics' movements.".

Sourcing

Information on every pages must remain as unbiased and reliable as possible. Sourcing all the facts may help prevent future rumors, confusions, and possible controversies. Best examples of official sources include:

Inserting References

To use the correct reference codes, here's how it work: 

<ref>''Five Nights at Freddy's: The Freddy Files Ultimate Edition'' | Page 5</ref>


If you're using insertion points of citation, use the following code as an example: 

<ref name="The Freddy Files">''The Freddy Files (Updated Edition)''</ref>


This is placed at the second and all insertion points of citation: 

<ref name="The Freddy Files"/>

Inserting Reference List

When using references, please add the "References" section at the very bottom end of the pages: 

== References ==
{{Reflist}}


If you are still not sure, read here.

Theories and Speculations

As suggested by the sourcing guidelines above, adding confirmed information while using sources from guidebooks, developers' official comments, and any media (games, books, etc.) is absolutely needed, but theories and speculations are not allowed to be inserted unless supported by evidence and listed in the "Theories and Speculations" section while using the speculation template under this section's header. Furthermore, just because there are multiple pieces of evidence to back up the theories does not mean they can be treated as solid fact for the pages' standards. Headcanons are prohibited.

If there is enough solid evidence to confirm such claims, they will be accepted as facts in pages. For example, the Puppet in the primary series was revealed to be possessed by Charlotte Emily, as first evidenced by Pizzeria Simulator's Completion Ending, and was later officially confirmed in The Ultimate Guide; this also reveals that the name of Charlotte's father (who was referred as "Cassette Man" ingame) is Henry himself, the same man from the novel trilogy universe who also had a daughter named Charlotte Emily.

As the main goal of this wiki is to document this series, debunked theories are allowed in these sections so long as they were major theories that were held by the fanbase. Debunked items in this section should include the evidence that supported those claims as well as what ultimately debunked them.

Text Style

  • Italic - Please make sure that every titles of the franchise are in italic by clicking the bent-shaped "I" button (which is between the bold-text button and the underline button) or adding two apostrophes on both sides. For example: Five Nights at Freddy's instead of Five Nights at Freddy's.
  • Bold - All articles' names from the intro information part must be in bold text by clicking the capital "B" button or adding three apostrophes on each sides. For example: "Freddy Fazbear is the main antagonist..." instead of "Freddy Fazbear is the main antagonist...".

Images

Acceptable images include:

  • Official screenshots. Same applies to screenshots made from scratch, but please ensure they have high quality and do not have nearly-duplicated camera angles.
  • Ripped game files. These include textures, sprites, audio files, etc.
  • Concept arts.
  • Promotions and teasers.

Unacceptable images include:

  • Poorly-made screenshots taken from YouTube videos, especially with Let's Players' faces and channel icons.
  • Fanarts, SFMs, memes, and photoshopped images.
  • Duplicated files.
  • Stolen model renders.

Trivia

The purpose of trivia sections are to add interesting notes. Although, you would not add something that actually fits better in the main article. Main acceptable notes for trivia sections include:

  • Easter eggs
  • Prototype designs, old concepts, and early ideas
  • Developers' commentaries
  • Strong, non-coincidental allusions
  • Confirmed inspirations or references to other media
  • Observations

List of identified bugs/glitches and bloopers/errors are also needed but must be included under their appropriate sections.

Articles

Page Titles

Page titles should display the full, official title (if there is one) of the character, game, book, etc. Like, for example, "Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted - Curse of Dreadbear," over just "Curse of Dreadbear." Titles that are stylized, like "RUIN," should also be properly displayed on the page(s). Official titles and spellings can be found via various sources, like store pages, social media posts, blogs, covers, etc. Be sure to check multiple sources to know if the title is correct or stylized. Please note that this doesn't apply to company suffixes like "LLC" and "Corp.," since they're, more commonly than not, shortened.

When adding the title for books, it's best to use the front cover and to use colons to separate the franchise name, series name, and book title, like, for example, "Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #1: Lally's Game," unless the books' official listings display characters like hyphens or commas. Some books that seem like they should have a colon, like "Five Nights at Freddy's Interactive Novel #1: The Week Before," should be looked out for, so checking reliable online stores should be used, if needed, to place colons correctly.

Sub-Pages

If the pages earn enough amount of content, like if the character, object, or location made an appearance in two or more games with a major role, as well as huge amount of images, audio files, and/or trivias, sub-pages should be necessarily created to prevent from leading to a huge, cluttered mess. Note that if the gallery section for pages about anything (characters, locations, etc.) that has a single appearance was big enough, use the minimize bar.

When making sub-pages, create a new PageNavigation template for them, but must be placed between the infobox and quote template.

Overall sub-pages in the following order include:

  • Overview - The main page.
  • Histories - Archived list of roles.
  • Gallery - Archived list of images.
  • Audio - Archived list of sounds and dialogue clips.
  • Trivia - Archived list of trivias. List of bugs and errors also applies.

Video game sub-pages include in the following:

  • Overview - The main page.
  • Gallery - Archived list of images.
  • Updates - Archived list of update patch histories for all consoles.
  • Credits - Archived list of names of developers and collaborators.

Character Pages

Not all characters of the franchise deserve their own page. Characters and as well animatronics with a very brief role should only go to their Minor Character pages or Minor Animatronic pages, unless they made a second or more appearances in future installments otherwise. For example, if the character has no in-depth information and was mentioned only once or made a single appearance with a smaller screen-time, this character will only be listed in the Minor Character pages.

Categories

Please make sure that the main categories, including Characters, Bots, Locations, etc, only contain sub-categories in order to prevent disorganization.

The example for the page's category order should go like this: 

Core Series: Bots | Core Series: Animatronics | Core Series: Classic Animatronics | FNaF1: Bots | FNaF2: Bots

Galleries

The galleries must remain in centered positions along with captions when adding. Here's the following codes to use: 

<gallery captionalign="center" position="center">
</gallery>
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