Rhythm Game Wiki:Style Guide

Global wiki guidelines

These guidelines apply to all games on the wiki.

Writing style

• Use italics when you are referring to the title of the game.

Gadvia is a mobile rhythm game

• You may use a link and italics when you are referring to the title of the game for the first time and the game might be relevant to the reader.

Gadvia is a mobile rhythm game.

Dates and times

Dates should be generally using the extended format of ISO 8601. In short:

• for the UTC timezone, it's the following format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ (for example: 2024-12-06T09:00Z).
• for other timezones, it's the following format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+TZOFFSET (for example, for UTC+8: 2024-12-06T17:00+08:00).

Pages and page titles

• Pages that focus on general mechanics, content, or tools, that are not specific to any one game, should be put into the main namespace, for example: TextMesh Pro.
• Guides that describe general topics that are not game-specific, or relate to multiple games at once, should be put into the main namespace, under the "Guides" page, for example: Guides/Editing a JSON file.
• Pages describing game content or game mechanics should be put into a game's namespace, for example: Gadvia:Adventure mode. If a game does not have a namespace, a new namespace should be requested.
• Game guides should be put into the game's namespace, under the "Guides" page, for example: Gadvia:Guides/Extracting game files.
• Pages that contain information about the wiki itself should be put in the meta namespace (Rhythm Game Wiki), for example: Rhythm Game Wiki:Copyrights.

Files and pages in other namespaces

• Template titles should have no spaces and be in PascalCase, for example Template:DataStructure
• Files (images, videos, audio, etc.) for specific games that are put into the File: (or Media:) namespace, have a GameName- prefix, for example: Media:Rizline-Disc 2 Image.png.
• Templates for specific games are in the Template: namespace, have a GameName prefix, for example: Template:RizlineDiscInfoBox.

This format is both machine-readable and human-readable, and is not ambiguous. Using this format everywhere on the wiki avoids confusion.

Useful templates

Text formatting

• Template:Tooltip

The following text has a tooltip. Hovering your mouse over it will display a message.

• Template:Date - shows a tooltip with the date in the user's timezone (using JavaScript).

This is the date template: 2024-12-06T14:32Z

Notice boxes

Use Template:Stub, Template:Todo, Template:Incomplete, Template:MainArticle for boxes with notice messages. They all use the Template:ArticleNoticeBox template:

• Template:Stub

This article is a stub. You can help the wiki by expanding it!

• Template:Todo

This page has some work to do. Help the wiki by editing this page!

• Get images from game files and put them here.

• Template:Incomplete

This article is incomplete. Some parts of this article are missing, inaccurate, or incomplete. You can help the wiki by editing this page and adding information!

• Some items are missing

• Template:MainArticle

Main Article: Rizline:List of songs

In-line notices

• Template:Unfinished - for work-in-progress or incomplete information

[...] This game mechanic allows you to get more items. ^[unfinished]

• Template:Verify - for information that is not confirmed to be true, or cannot be confirmed true or false at this time.

[...] This game mechanic allows you to get two  Coins. ^[verify]

Game-specific guidelines

Game-specific guidelines apply only to specific games on the wiki. The game-specific guidelines are on separate pages listed below:

• Rizline
• Gadvia
• Arcaea