Disney Wiki:Manual of Style

We here at the Disney Wiki desire for our articles to have a similar style throughout. This Manual of Style is to ensure this.

For information on the most basic writing techniques and styles, which are used here, see Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Below are the Disney Wiki's standards.

Layout

All articles should be written in an out-of-universe view.

The style for character articles should be as follows:

1. Character Infobox
2. Introduction
3. Background
   1. Development
   2. Personality
   3. Physical Appearance
   4. Powers and abilities (just Abilities if non-magic, non-powered characters)
4. Backstory
5. Appearances (in order of media release)
   1. Films
   2. Television
   3. Video Games
   4. Other Appearances
6. Disney Parks
7. Quotes
8. Gallery
9. Trivia
10. External links

For film articles, the style should be:

1. Film Infobox
2. Introduction
3. Plot
4. Cast
5. Development
6. Production
7. Reception
8. Trivia
9. Notes
10. References
11. Gallery

Articles for real people should be as follows:

1. Real Person Infobox
2. Paragraphs (highlighting Disney contributions)

The style for episode articles should be as follows:

1. Episode (template)
2. Plot
3. Trivia

Perspective

All articles should be written in a subjective out-of-universe form. That is, it should be written as if you were observing it in a movie, as opposed to actively witnessing it.

Bolds, Italics, and Quotes

Italics, bolds, and quotes have specific uses.

Bolds

Bold text is specifically used for the first time an article's name is mentioned in its introductory paragraphs. It should only be used once on a page.

Italics

Italics should be used any time a movie or television show's name is mentioned (Lilo & Stitch, Phineas and Ferb, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). For the articles concerning movies or series, italics may be used in conjunction with bold text (so that it looks like this).

Quotes

Quotation marks should be used around the names of television episode titles (e.i. "The Hand That Rocks the Mable", "Beck's Beginning", etc. However, when using quotes on an episode name in bold, do not type the quotation marks in bold. Quotes can also be used to quote a source (movie, episode, character line, interview) in exact words.