PreCure Wiki:Layout guide

(Under construction)

This is a guide to help clarify formatting used on this wiki, to make it as easy as possible to learn how to help out with editing pages. These rules are specifically for editing the wiki, and most do not apply to comment sections or discussion pages. If you have any thoughts on the beta policies, you can let an admin know.

Series

 * Series names have a bit of a hierarchy. Because this wiki is about the Crunchyroll and official Japanese versions, those names will take priority as page titles. For any series on Crunchyroll, the official title should be used, so as to make the wiki accessible to people watching the official subs. ("Healin' Good Pretty Cure" over "Healin' Good Precure" or "Healin' Good♥Pretty Cure") For series that have not been officially released in English, the Japanese name or name in English below the Japanese logo will take priority, even if there is an official English logo, as official series titles take priority over logos. ("Maho Girls Precure!" over "Witchy Pretty Cure") Exceptions can be made for series like Max Heart. Since it is a sequel to a series that has been officially released in English, it's a fairly safe bet it will be localized as "Pretty Cure Max Heart". If a series is officially released in English, its page title should be updated accordingly.


 * Punctuation or things like stars and hearts in titles should be used.


 * Series titles should be capitalized when mentioned. (Such as "Smile Precure!" over "Smile precure")


 * The first time a series is mentioned in a page, its name should be said in full, but subsequent times it's fine to use a shortened title if it's clear what you're referring to. (Example: Shortening "Suite Precure♪" to "Suite" or "SuiPre" in a main article is fine, but "Suite Precure♪" to "SPC" should only be used in file names)


 * (Beta policy) While not rolled out to the wiki yet, italicization of series names is under consideration.

Characters

 * Official Crunchyroll names take precedence over official Japanese names, which take precedence over fansub names. Fansub names should not be used at any point on main wiki pages, even if they are common. They should be made note of in the infobox's "Fan translation names" field, and redirects can be made so the pages are easy to find, but this wiki is only about official things. Official English dub names, such as the ones from the YTV Pretty Cure dub and Glitter Force should not be used as page names, but should be noted in the infobox's "English name" field. The only exception to this is Lance, since his name in Glitter Force Doki Doki is entirely possible as an English spelling of his Japanese name Ransu/Rance, and most likely what it was intended to be. The exception to the Crunchyroll spellings rule is names with long vowels, particularly spellings like "Chongi-re". In cases like these, the wiki may spell things with macron letters instead, like "Chongīre".


 * If a name from a series with no official translation can be spelled multiple ways, the Japanese spelling is the correct one to use. ("Niko" over "Nico", "Eren" over "Ellen") The exceptions to this are: 1. Names that have been spelled out officially, like Liko. Since her name is spelled that way both in the show and in merchandise, that is how her name should be spelled on the wiki. 2. Names that were likely intended to be English names. ("Kay" rather than "Kei", since the Magic World's inhabitants tend to have non-Japanese names) Generally, names spelled in katakana were likely intended to be English names, unless otherwise specified in the show or merchandise.


 * Generally speaking, a character's real name should be used for a page instead of an alias of any sort. (For instance Milk's page is Milk instead of Mimino Kurumi) Some exceptions can be made, such as if the character has a really long full name (Like Himelda Window Cure Queen of the Blue Sky). However, their real full names can and will be used in their info boxes. Just not for page names.


 * Titles are not names. "Chourou" just translates to "elder", "kouchou" to "principal" or "headmaster", etc. When characters are referring to someone by a word like that, they are addressing them by a title, not a given name. Pages for characters like these should use the English translation of their title, rather than the Japanese word.


 * Disambiguation pages should be made for characters who share a given name. For characters who have the same title, but no given name, like Pretty Cure and Kira Kira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode's respective Elders, their pages should be differentiated by location, since abbreviations may not be as clear to everyone.


 * (Beta policy) It's currently being decided whether pages should be named the Japanese way, surname first, given name last, or the English way, given name first, surname last.

Images

 * Try to upload higher quality images when you can. If something's too blurry, it will probably be marked for deletion.


 * Images should have file names that relate to the image in some way. If an image name is too vague or unclear, it may be renamed.


 * Screenshots should have the episode number in the file description.


 * Images should be categorized by what series they're from so they're easier to find. If you're not sure what category to put an image in, see what similar images are categorized as, or ask an admin.


 * If you want to upload a higher quality version of an image that's already on the wiki, please upload it as a new version on the original file's page, instead of as a separate file. Uploading it separately makes more work for everyone, (The old image has to be manually replaced, then deleted if it's obsolete) and results in the original uploader losing credit for their version.


 * Please don't upload fanart to the wiki. If you'd like to share something you made or found, you can use the discussions page or comment sections. If you didn't make the image, you need to credit the original artist, or it will be removed. For this reason, you should specify when you made something, though if you're found to have stolen art and claimed it as your own, it will be removed.

Trivia sections

 * Trivia should be notable and interesting. Points like "(character) was the 4th to (such and such)" are not notable anymore, and flood the trivia section with things most people aren't looking for.


 * Comparing characters in trivia sections is not allowed. This can be done in the comment sections of pages instead, if you would like.


 * If a trivia point can easily be worked into an infobox or main section of a page, it should be.