Beyblade Wiki's Manual of Style (abbreviated as MoS) serves as the guideline for how articles on the Beyblade Wiki should be created and written. Of all the various articles on Beyblade Wiki, i.e. Beyblades, Characters, Episodes, they each feature their own specific layout which makes them distinct and unique from one-another.
Below are the most common and important rules and regulations you must take into caution, when editing Beyblade Wiki. We recommend that you read it patiently and thoroughly, as well as reading our layouts for the different sets of pages on the wiki. As a result, you will have obtained the knowledge and skills to edit articles.
Editing
Once saved, your changes will be visible immediately. Any content on this wiki can be changed and redistributed by other public users. If you do not wish for content to be changed, do not submit it. If you wish to draft or test content, please use a personal user sandbox.
Common problems and mistakes
Many editors of Beyblade Wiki make common mistakes when starting anew at editing. Here, you will find what not to do, and what you should do about it.
Plagiarism
Use common sense - do not plagiarize. Do not copy and paste from other websites. This includes "patchwork" plagiarism.
Names
- Use English translated or localized names where possible, not the Romaji of the Japanese names.
- For an external example, we would use "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury", not "Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo".
- If no official English translated or localized titles are available, unofficial translations are acceptable.
- The official English names given by ADK Emotions Inc. are Bakuten Shoot Beyblade and Metal Fight Beyblade Baku respectively, and thus should be used instead of "Explosive Shoot Beyblade" or "Metal Fight Beyblade Explosion". The Kanji in these titles must remain untranslated.
- Characters should be referred to by their official US English localized names where possible.
- If referring to Beyblades in the context of anime or manga, the official US English localized names should be used. For example, Gingka Hagane owns Storm Pegasus 105RF as spelled in the English dub of the anime, not Storm Pegasis 105RF. However, Gingka owns Pegasis 105F and Storm Pegasis 10Glaive Quick', not Pegasus, as the manga that these Beys appear in was not released officially in English. Thus the English name given by Takara Tomy in Japan should be used.
- If referring to Beyblades in the context of the toyline, the official English translated name given by the original toyline should be used. For example, Fusion Hades AD145SWD and Victory Valkyrie Boost Variable were called Firefuse Darkhelm AD145SWD and Victory Valtryek Boost Variable in the anime, but were released in the Japanese toylines only, and thus use the English names given by Takara Tomy in Japan. In another example, Cosmic Pegasus F:D was released by Hasbro in the US, so "Cosmic Pegasus" should be used instead of "Big Bang Pegasis".
Trivia
Essentially, trivia is unimportant intelligence that is used to give more of a backstory, allusions, or comparisons between other Beyblade or un-Beyblade related items. Many at Beyblade Wiki tend to give obvious or very bad trivia at the costs of the article's low quality. This is what you should take into caution when adding trivia.
Examples of bad trivia
- Victory Valkyrie is the only Energy Layer with "Victory" in its name.
- The Brave and Mirage Rings both have rubber.
- Ace Dragon Sting Charge Zan is the first dragon-based Beyblade in Beyblade Burst Rise.
- This is the first episode of Beyblade Burst Surge that Valt appears in.
As you may have noticed, Beyblade Wiki tends to receive and still obtains the sort of trivia just stated. Please remember that those kind of trivia items, are very obvious and not professional, causing a downfall on quality. Please remember, quality or quantity. You can see more on that statement in a succeeding section.
Generation/Toyline/Anime
- Specify the media where possible. For example, "Beyblade X" can refer to:
- The generation/series.
- The anime.
- The manga.
- The toyline.
Capitalization
This is another problem Beyblade Wiki's users face, their capitalization with statements. Often times, some editors choose to capitalize un-needed words that in a true wiki, should not reserve it.
For example, the sentence "Gingka Hagane is the No. 1 Blader in the World." uses capitalization of the words "Blader," and "World" besides the name of the stated person. This is fine because it is a title this person uses and is renown for.
Also note that common nouns in Beyblade are "Beyblade," "Bey," and "Blader." These should be capitalized at all times due to the fact they are proper nouns in this wiki.
However, the sentence "Sakyo Kuroyami is a Dragon Blader." shows a bad example. People tend to make this mistake because this person uses a dragon-esque Beyblade however, "Dragon Blader" suggests a title for the person. To conclude, Dragon should not be capitalized and be changed to "dragon."
Official gameplay terminology, such as Stadium, Locks, are treated as proper nouns and should be capitalized at all times. Terms like "combo" and "combination" are not.
Please remember to not capitalize unnecessary words or phrases that do not count as titles, names, or proper nouns that relate to Beyblade.
Grammar
Grammar should be self-explanatory. Beyblade Wiki does not want users with poor grammatical skills to edit their wiki. It only makes our reputation bad and causes us to be looked down.
Examples such as "this person won a battle 3 times in a torunament" are very poor in structure, grammar, and overall specification.
Also note that we are not asking for asking for professional users with the best grammar ever known to exist. We are only looking for users that know the basics in grammar and are decent with it.
Neutral point of view (NPOV)
The neutral point of view is a view that many wikis, including Wikipedia use when writing in articles. Basically, it states that as users, we tend to ignore and heavily not rely on a first-person view. This means to ignore words such as "My," "I," "I think," and "This is bad."
Maintaining a neutral point of view allows the reader to read, without the opinions or amplifications its editors hold. Every article on Beyblade Wiki should maintain and run a neutral point of view, with no exceptions.
Quality over quantity
"Quality over quantity." is a phrase the users of Beyblade Wiki edits by and are expected to follow in their journey through the world that is, wikis. It means that quality is a far more, greater important than the quantity of how much information the article contains.
Quality is how good or bad our articles can be, and it is of the up-most importance that our editors give our articles the best quality and condition they deserve.
Please remember to follow all of these aspects and rules as you venture into the world of editing.
For more information, please visit the Wikipedia Manual of Style.