Rhythm Game Wiki:Style Guide

Global wiki guidelines

These guidelines apply to all games on the wiki.

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.

Sections

Any content page may or may not contain any of the following sections. If the page does have any of these sections, they should be placed at the end of the page, in order:

• Gallery - images/media related to the page.
• See also - links to other related pages on the wiki.
• References - footnotes for the article.

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• External links - unordered list of links to other websites related to this page.
• Navigation - transcluded navigation boxes from Category:Navigation_boxes.

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).

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 the templates listed below for boxes with notice messages. They all use the Template:ArticleNoticeBox template:

• Template:Stub - place at the top of the page to inform the reader that the page is short and not complete.

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

• Template:Todo - use this to inform other editors of some tasks to do.

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 - use this to inform readers that some information is missing from the article.

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 - place just below a section header to link to a bigger article on the topic.

Main Article: Rizline:List of songs

More specific notice boxes

• Template:GameInactive - use this in articles for inactive games (for example Gadvia:Gadvia).

Note: This game is inactive. Unfortunately, the servers for this game are no longer online, and as a result, the game is missing many of its functionalities.

• Template:SpoilerWarning - place this at the top of articles/article sections that include spoilers.

Spoiler warning! This part of the wiki contains spoilers; do not read if you wish to experience the game yourself!

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