Manual Of Style

The purpose of this manual is to create guidelines to help uniformize content across articles in the Undertale Wiki. Reading this is recommended to efficientize the editing process, as it would save editors a lot of corrections. If any questions, suggestions or issues arise please contact administration. Thank you.

Disclaimer: This manual is still a work in progress. Anything written here is subject to change, and certain exceptions may apply.

Language

 * This wiki is written in english only. no other language is supported

Reference and Citing
As this wiki grows, so do rumors. All content in this wiki should be verifiable, and any information must be cited with quotes, explanations in footnotes and/or reliable sources.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is, in few words, taking someone else's work and submitting it as one's own. This includes but is not limited to copying, quoting, paraphrasing or submitting a third party's work without proper acknowledgement or citation. As long as a quote is short and properly cited, it does not count as plagiarism.

Examples of reliable sources

 * original content from YouTube
 * original content from other sites

How to cite
Inline citations are placed immediately after the text it applies to. Any punctuation, excluding dashes and parentheses, is placed before the citation.


 * Do
 * Undertale was released on September 15.[1]
 * Undertale (released on September 15[1]) is a game by Toby Fox.[2]
 * Undertale —a game by Toby Fox[1]— was released on September 15.[2]


 * Do not
 * Undertale (released on September 15)[1] is a game by Toby Fox[2].

While this wiki does not follow a specific house style, the style must be consistent within individual articles. Citations must include at least the following information:


 * 1) Name or alias of the author or speaker.
 * 2) Date of publishing or submission of the source.
 * 3) Name of website source was posted in (if web).
 * 4) * Name of work source was published in (if print).
 * 5) Date of retrieval of the source.
 * 6) If the source is notably lengthy, include the page number, section name, or video time where the source is mentioned or implied.