Jpop Wiki:Manual of Style

This Manual of Style outlines a standard of clean, consistent formatting for articles in Japanese Music Wiki. The formatting described here is a guideline and can be overridden where circumstances warrant it.

Language
We only accept any content in English language. Please avoid article content all in foreign languages. If you want to contribute in a different language, Japanese Music Wiki also exists in Spanish, Indonesian, and Japanese. Rules on those wikis and formatting may be different.

Names and words in Japanese should be romanized using the Hepburn romanization system. If you don’t know how to translate or fully romanize text, you can leave it in Japanese and another user may get to it eventually.

Article Titles
A name of a band or artist should be entered exactly how it is. This wiki uses the Surname Given name format for people pages. Article titles must all be completely romanized.

Title conflicts
If there is another page with the same title, you’ll want to add something to the name so that you can create a page.

For a person page, if there’s a known birth year you’ll want to add it after the name in parenthesis. (i.e. Runa (1997)). If no birth year is known, you’ll want to use the most recent group name or most well known occupation (I.e. Sakura (Zero Project) or Aizawa Mina (Narrator).

For release pages, add the name of the artist after the name in parenthesis. (i.e. Again (YUI)). For self-titled releases, add the type of release after the name in parenthesis. (i.e. ≠ME (Digital Single)). This can also be used for different releases with the same name by the same artist.

Structure
Having a well-structured article is useful as it allows information to be displayed and found easily. When creating a new page, custom-made page layouts are avilable in the notice section. These layouts are immensely helpful when editing and are meant to be useful for a beginner in order for an article to be structured correctly.

Images

 * Images are to be aligned on right side of page for most circumstances.
 * If there is more than 1 image on the article page. Make a gallery using a level 2 heading at the bottom of the page.
 * Please name your files descriptively to avoid confusion. Uploading an image with the name “eifjoopeiklmg45.jpg" will be deleted or moved according to the opinion of the administrator. While images were previously uploaded with a variety of non-descriptive names in the past this is not what will be happening going forward.
 * Do not upload images we already have. If you plan on uploading an image, look around the wiki first to see if it has already been uploaded by someone else. If you want to upload a better version of an existing image, go to the file page of that existing image and upload a new version there instead of creating a new file under a new name.
 * Some Unofficial/NSFW images that are not appropriate will be deleted. This is borderline and while rely on the context of the page and content. Official images are preferred but if no official images exist, unofficial is okay.

Videos

 * Only upload videos on official artist or label channels to the wiki. All other videos will be deleted accordingly. If a video has been made private or deleted from YouTube (or any video site), it will also be deleted.
 * Official videos can include music videos, dance videos, live videos, dance practices, etc. as long as it relates to the release itself and is by an official artist or label channel.

Licensing

 * Always use  in the description when uploading an image or edit an image after it’s already been uploaded to add the licensing information.

Deletion
''Content that may be delete
 * Vandalism, including bad redirects, pages that exist only to disparage their subject, or gibberish.
 * Advertising or other spam without relevant content.
 * Files that are unused, and or obsolete.
 * Any other content not suitable for the wiki.
 * Directly copying + pasting from wikipedia or other wiki sources. While it can be useful, other websites often use a different formatting than us which means a lot of unnecessarily hard clean up and it is actually just easier to delete than cleanup.
 * To mark an item for deletion use the template.