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We here at Zeldapedia like things to be uniform and everything so this Manual of Style is here to set things straight. For information on the most basic writing techniques and styles, which are used here, see Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Below are some basic Zeldapedia formatting "do's" and "don't's."

General article info
In general, characters, items and locations of the Legend of Zelda series should have their own article. However, some items, such as the Essences of Nature, that mostly share the same function have all been put in one page.

Reappearing characters, items and places should be disambiguated into game-specific articles; for example, Agahnim is a reappearing character, so different pages have been created for the A Link to the Past character and the Oracle of Seasons mini-boss. Be sure to properly link to avoid links leading to disambiguation pages such as the Agahnim page.

Characters
Character articles should serve as a complete biography of the character in question. A proper character article should contain all the following;


 * An infobox.
 * An intro text with name, what this character does and where s/he is located in the game s/he appears in.
 * A more fleshed-out biography under a "Biography" header. If the section contains spoilers, add the Spoiler template. Do not forget to close it with an Endspoiler template.
 * It should not have a trivia section, as it is discouraged. Try to find a way to integrate "fun facts" into other sections in the article.
 * The Navigation template for the game the character appears in.
 * Be properly, game-specifically categorized, e.g. Category:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening characters.
 * Any unverified information, e.g. theoretical information should be put in a "Possible origin/meaning" header.

Example
Pieman is a character from The Legend of Zelda. He is a legendary bard that tells tall tales. He can be found in Mos Eisley.

Biography
Pieman was born in a pie shop, specifically, Mrs. Lovett's pie shop in Fleet Street, London. He eventually became a famous bard and had to work double time to afford the ever increasing price of pretzels.

In the game, he doesn't really do anything. The evil lord Canon is defeated by someone else. In the ending, Pieman can be seen writing a song.

Items
An item article should contain all the following:


 * An Item box.
 * An intro text with name, which game it's from, function and location.
 * The Navigation template for the game the item appears in.
 * Be properly, game-specifically categorized, e.g. Category:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time items.

Locations
A location article should contain all of the following:


 * A Location box.
 * An intro text with name, which world it is located in, which game it's from and where it is located on the world map.
 * The Navigation template for the game the location appears in.
 * Be properly, game-specifically categorized, e.g. Category:The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask locations.

Enemies
An enemy article should contain all of the following:


 * An Enemy box.
 * An intro text with name, which game it's from, its appearance and location. Attack patterns should be in a new section.
 * A strategy section on how to defeat the enemy.
 * The Navigation template for the game the location appears in.
 * Be properly, game-specifically categorized, e.g. Category:The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker enemies.

Images
Images should be present in most articles, however, images that have nothing to do with the article in question will be removed. Upload an image to add it to an article. When uploading new images, try to find categories for them. All games have Character, Location, Item, and Enemy Image categorized. For example, an enemy image for The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening should be categorized as Category:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Enemy Images. And do not forget to add the image's copyright information.

If an uploaded image is a duplicate file, it will be deleted without warning. If you see a duplicate file somewhere, please add a Speedy deletion template to it so the Administrators can delete it.

Dungeons
Dungeon pages must have:
 * An infobox
 * Section on role in the story
 * Info on the dungeon itself. Location, architecture and themes.
 * Enemy info
 * Boss and mini-boss info
 * Item info
 * Enemy info

Point of view
All articles should have an in-universe, third-person point of view. For example,


 * "Link defeats Ganondorf on Hyrule Field."

is better than...


 * "The player defeats Ganondorf on Hyrule Field,"

and it should never say


 * "You defeat Ganondorf on Hyrule Field."

Articles should also be in present tense. For example,


 * "Link travels through Kokiri Forest."

is better then...


 * "Link traveled through Kokiri Forest."

Information about events that occured prior to the active story in a game should be chronicled in the past tense.