Follow the tips in this style guide to help keep the Transformice Wiki easy to read. For fundamental wiki editing guidelines, see also Wikipedia's Manual of Style ^(simplified). This style guide may be used to adjudicate editing style disagreements between users. For anything not outlined here, please use common sense, and don't make large changes without community consensus.

Basic guidelines

• Use headings to organize topics so they can be hyperlinked more easily.
  • For series pages, use matching headings to arrange content in a consistent format.
• Do not copy information directly from other websites.
• All articles should be written from a neutral point of view; articles should not contain opinions (e.g., obviously, unfortunately, surprisingly, fortunately, luckily) nor words such as I, my, or we.
• This is an English wiki; do not write anything in a language other than English.
• This wiki formats numbers using commas for a thousands separator, and periods for a decimal point.

Writing

In terms of English reading level, the audience for this wiki includes young children as well as readers who speak English as a secondary language. Make articles easy to understand by using simple words and short sentences where possible.

Otherwise, refer to the style guidelines outlined by Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Formatting

Dates

Use the European day before month format (1 May 2010) for dates, in keeping with Transformice official standard. (Atelier 801 is based in France and the United Kingdom, and chooses this date format for their forum).

Numbers

For displaying numbers, this wiki separates thousands with a comma and marks decimal points with a period (e.g. 1,073.59).

Manual of Style

This is the Manual of Style for the Transformice Wiki.

Key: Correct ✔ Incorrect ✘

Grammar

• Do not use any slang or abbreviations on articles, unless the official name of an article is abbreviated.
  • Melibellule is bad at wall jumping ✔
  • Meli is bad at wj ✘
  • The village is the place to be ✔
  • The village is the place 2 b ✘
• All mentions of games should be italicized. Transformice should always be written as Transformice. You can italicize by adding '' at the front and back of the game title. If you use punctuation, it should not be italicized.
• Do not capitalize every word in a sentence. Conjunctions, prepositions and definite articles shouldn't be capitalized either, unless the game capitalizes them.
  • New Fashion Squad outfits come every Tuesday ✔
  • New fashion squad outfits come every Tuesday ✘
  • New Fashion Squad Outfits come Every Tuesday ✘
• When adding dates in, make sure you use the full date, year included. The date must be in the DMY format. Also don't include an ordinal indicator.
  • 21 May 2018 ✔
  • May 21, 2018 ✘
  • 21 May ✘
  • 21st May 2018 ✘
  • 21/5/18 ✘
• If something is no longer in Transformice, remember to change the wording of the article to past tense.
• Make sure to add punctuation at the end of every sentence.
• When using apostrophes, make sure to use ' instead of ’.
• If you have a list of three or more items, make sure to use an Oxford comma before the conjunction in the list.

Titles

• Titles should be in singular form, not plural.
• Article titles should always use an official name, not a fan-made one. If you are wondering where to find the official names, see the language files.
• If two or more articles have the same name, use parenthesis to distinguish them from each other. Make sure to not capitalize the word in the parenthesis, unless its official title is capitalized.

Article layout

Hatnotes

• A hatnote helps readers locate a different article if the one they are at is not the one they're looking for.
• Place hatnotes at the top of the article or section, above any amboxes and infoboxes.

Amboxes

• If an article contains an ambox (article message box), it should always be at the top of an article.
• If an article has no infobox, make sure to separate the ambox and the article text into different lines.

{{Stub}}
'''Christmas''', also known as '''Winter''', is a holiday which commonly has [[event]]s in ''[[Transformice]]''.

• If an article is missing information, make sure to label it as a {{Stub}}. Do not label an article as a stub if it's just short. Short articles aren't stubs.
• If an article does not comply with the Manual of Style and needs a cleanup, label it as {{Cleanup}}.
• If an article is too long to finish or is currently undergoing change and an update, label it as {{Construction}}.
• If an article has been protected, label it as {{Protected}}.
• If an article is about a real life person or thing, label it as {{Real life}}.
• If an article is poorly written, label it as {{Rewrite}}.
• If an article is out of date, label it as {{Update}}.
• If the content of an article is no longer in Transformice, label it as {{Historical}}.
• If the content of an article is supposed to come out in the future, label it as {{Future}}.

Other templates

• If you are inserting a quote into an article, use this {{Quote}}. Make sure it goes below the infobox, but before the article text.

Infoboxes

• Infoboxes should be placed right under amboxes. If an article doesn't contain an ambox, the infobox should be at the top.
• If there are multiple answers in a field, avoid using "and" or "&".
  • |games=''[[Transformice]]''<br />''[[Bouboum]]''<br />''[[Nekodancer]]'' ✔
  • |games=''[[Transformice]]'', ''[[Bouboum]]'' & ''[[Nekodancer]]'' ✘
  • |games=''[[Transformice]]'' & ''[[Bouboum]]'' & ''[[Nekodancer]]'' ✘
  • |games=''[[Transformice]]'', ''[[Bouboum]]'' and ''[[Nekodancer]]'' ✘
• Infoboxes should be laid out in order.
• Do not add File: before an image.
• Make sure to put a space the words and the equal sign in the infobox.
• Infoboxes should always be laid out like this:

{{Infobox event
| image        = Adventure banner 27.jpg
| adventureid  = 27
| version      = 1.641
| release      = 27 May 2021
| end          = 8 July 2021
| previous     = [[Rain 2021]]
| next         = [[Fishing 2021]]
}}
'''Greenhouse 2021''' is the third adventure of 2021.

If you have an ambox, it should be laid out like this:

{{Stub}}
{{Infobox event
| image        = Adventure banner 27.jpg
| adventureid  = 27
| version      = 1.641
| release      = 27 May 2021
| end          = 8 July 2021
| previous     = [[Rain 2021]]
| next         = [[Fishing 2021]]
}}
'''Greenhouse 2021''' is the third adventure of 2021.

Here are example of how NOT to lay them out:

{{Infobox event| image        = Adventure banner 27.jpg| adventureid  = 27| version      = 1.641| release      = 27 May 2021| end          = 8 July 2021| previous     = [[Rain 2021]]| next         = [[Fishing 2021]]}}'''Greenhouse 2021''' is the third adventure of 2021.

{{Infobox event
| image        = Adventure banner 27.jpg
| adventureid  = 27
| version      = 1.641
| release      = 27 May 2021
| end          = 8 July 2021
| previous     = [[Rain 2021]]
| next         = [[Fishing 2021]]}}
'''Greenhouse 2021''' is the third adventure of 2021.

{{Infobox event
| image        = Adventure banner 27.jpg
| adventureid  = 27
| version      = 1.641
| release      = 27 May 2021
| end          = 8 July 2021
| previous     = [[Rain 2021]]
| next         = [[Fishing 2021]]
}}

'''Greenhouse 2021''' is the third adventure of 2021.

{{Infobox event
| image        = Adventure banner 27.jpg
| adventureid  = 27
| version      = 1.641
| release      = 27 May 2021
| end          = 8 July 2021
| previous     = [[Rain 2021]]
| next         = [[Fishing 2021]]
}}'''Greenhouse 2021''' is the third adventure of 2021.

{{Stub}}{{Infobox event
| image        = Adventure banner 27.jpg
| adventureid  = 27
| version      = 1.641
| release      = 27 May 2021
| end          = 8 July 2021
| previous     = [[Rain 2021]]
| next         = [[Fishing 2021]]
}}
'''Greenhouse 2021''' is the third adventure of 2021.

Article text

• It is the beginning text before the table of contents.
• The article text should come after the infobox.
• The name of the article should be bolded. Only bold it once however. Remember to not put a space in the bolded word.
  • '''Map 0''' is ✔
  • '''Map 0 '''is ✘
• It should usually be one paragraph.

Links

• When linking an article, link it like this [[Article name]]. It looks cleaner and nicer like that. Do not also link the article as an URL.
  • [[Christmas 2021]] ✔
  • [https://transformice.fandom.com/wiki/Christmas_2021 Christmas 2021] ✘
• When linking an article from another wiki, link it like this [[w:c:wikiname:Article name|Article name]]. Do not link it as an URL.
  • [[w:c:atelier801:Guest|Guest]] ✔
  • [https://atelier801.fandom.com/wiki/Guest Guest] ✘
• Do not put punctuation or spaces in the links.
  • [[Christmas 2021]]. ✔
  • [[Christmas 2021|Christmas 2021.]] ✘
  • [[Christmas 2021]] is ✔
  • [[Christmas 2021 ]]is ✘
• If you're linking an italicized word, make sure to put '' around the link, not inside.
  • ''[[Transformice]]''
  • [[Transformice|''Transformice'']] ✘
• If you want the link to be plural, put the "s" outside the link.
  • [[Badge]]s ✔
  • [[Badge|Badges]] ✘
  • [[Tigrounette]]'s ✔
  • [[Tigrounette|Tigrounette's]] ✘
• Don't link a page to itself.
• If a link is used after the first word of a sentence, the word(s) in the link should not capitalized unless it is a proper noun.

Article tables

• All article tables should use "wikitable".
• There should a space {| and class.
• Do not put |- between the class and exclamation points as it is useless code.
• Do not bold the words after the exclamation point as the exclamation point already does that.
• Here is an example of it should be laid out:

{| class="wikitable"
!Reward
!Requirement
|-
|{{MouseTitle|Heartbreaker|536}} {{new}}
|Collect 50 potions
|}

Other sections

• Make sure to leave a space between each section.
• If an article needs more information, you're always welcomed to add more sections.
• If you use bullet points, do not add spaces between the bullet point and the fact.
  • *The event appears every 40 minutes in rooms with 5-60 players. ✔
  • * The event appears every 40 minutes in rooms with 5-60 players. ✘
• Do not add spaces between the words and the equal signs.
  • ==Trivia== ✔
  • == Trivia == ✘
• Avoid putting wikilinks and images in the heading.
  • ==Adventure calendar== ✔
  • ==[[Adventure calendar]]== ✘

Trivia

• The trivia section should always be below the other information sections.
• Information that doesn't fit in any section or fun facts should go in here.
• Do not add obvious facts like "Indiana Mouse is a mouse."

Gallery

• Galleries should be placed below trivia.
• Make sure not to replace spaces with underscores in the file name.
  • Cupid 2022 1.png ✔
  • Cupid_2022_1.png ✘

Videos

• If there is a gameplay video related to article, add it in this section.
• Videos should be laid out like this:

==Videos==
<gallery>
Transformice Guide- Cupid LUA Event 2022!
SAN VALENTÍN 2022 - LUA EVENT - ¡GUÍA COMPLETA! - - 乂 La Robocop 乂
</gallery>

See also

• If there are any articles that relate to the main article, it should go here.
• This section should go below the videos section.
• Make sure to add an asterisk before each link.

References

• References section should go under the see also section.
• To add reference, do this: <ref>Reference</ref>. Then add the section and insert the {{Reflist}} template underneath it.

External links

• This section should go below references.
• If there are any external websites that relate to the main article, it should go here.

Navboxes

• Navboxes should be at the bottom of the article.

Interlanguage links

• Interlanguage links should be placed before categories.

Categories

• Every article should have a category.
• Each category should be plural if necessary.
• Note that many infoboxes and templates already include categories in them, so don't add categories that are already in the infobox/template.

See also

• Transformice Wiki:Editing