Policy:Quality standards

This page is the official guideline of editing for project:about. This is setted up to give the wiki an unique style of formatting articles that are both new and created. These guidelines are in demand of the staff which the contributor should follow the guideline in order to prevent themselves from getting warnings and eventually being banned from the wiki.

The quality standards can be rewritten sometimes when something new occurs in editing, but however, even if there isn't something mentioned in the guideline that was in the warning, means that there is something you did wrong that disturbed the entire style of the wiki.

Editing articles
For detailed information go here to get the latest details on how to edit articles on or any other mediawiki-based websites.

Moving articles
When moving articles, do notify a staff member and ask them for permission. Do not move an article out of your own by random, or if you moved an article already, do notify a staff member afterwards. Redirection templates are being categorized and thus is the reason why you should ask a staff member for permission or notify them when you've already done it. However, you should not move articles with a localized name not officially revealed to the public and it does not count if it comes from a third party or from a YouTuber that has the connections or figured it out through datamining. Do request the move in a polite fashion and not in a rushed manner, as the use of words will reveal what is rushed or not. If that happens, your request will be completely ignored.

Talk pages
When leaving a message on a talk page of an article of an user page, then you shoul sign off by adding the four tildes (~). If you have forgotten to sign off your message, then you will be notified by a staff member or a contributor that follows the policy. The message that you also have written will be removed from the talk page.

Article headers
The headers of the articles should not be altered to your own liking. This is because follows a structure that should be respected and where much content can be added under the headers. If that happens then the article will be reverted in an insant. The contributor should not be harassing a staff member for reverting the headers. If that happens, the contributor will be directly ignored and the contributor will receive a warning.

Episode linking
Characters or Yo-kai that are appearing in the animation series or games should not receive links with only EP001. This is lazy and incomplete for editing, as you should mention the full title of the episode or the episode fragment instead of using the entire link as a title. If you use EP and not the episode title, then that means that you are meaning the entire episode including the fragments. Even if there is an episode with only one fragment, the entire title still must show up.

User talk page
A user's talk page should not be altered without their permission, neither should you response to your own talk page only when it is necessary, like when you have received a message. Do not add fan art of 18+ images on your user page. The image will be deleted and you will receive a warning if it is a fan art or a direct ban if it is a 18+ image. Regular conversations can be held, but it is best to conversate with one another through Discord.

Article style
Articles should use a formal, professional, and encyclopedic writing style.
 * Do not make use of or contractions.
 * Avoid informal or conversational language, an example is writing the way you talk.
 * uses an in-universe writing style for game content. An example is that editors are refer the hero as "the player" or "they" for gender equality, rather than "you", "him", "her".
 * The way on how you write the articles should have a neutral point of view and should not reflect the author's personal views or offer subjective judgments on the content described.

Character articles
Articles for characters should not have the same structure as various mediawiki-based websites for anime or manga series, especially the ones created and hosted through Wikia. The articles on should be designed in an original manner, thus the structure of the character articles like as the one following below:
 * Game character
 * Anime character
 * Note:
 * Characters that appear in the anime should have (anime) next to the name when the article is created. This is to seperate game characters and anime characters because they do not follow the same story. However, if an game character has low information, and the anime character as well if they are the same character, they can be combined as one article. Any major game character should have (game) next to their name when their article is created.
 * Do not use EP as article link through the anime characters. Do place an official title in which the character appear in. If there is an usage of EP, the entire section will be removed from the article. Also, any headers and links that contains M (as in movie) will also be removed from the article. Give it their original name even if the title is long or not dubbed yet.

Yo-kai articles
Not to coincide with coincide with Bulbapedia, we are using a different structure of headers and templates to prevent that. In that way we can respect their hard work for their own creation of their housestyle as well for creating templates. On some occasions we borrow coding which in return we credit them for it. Note:
 * Yo-kai from the games
 * Yo-kai from the animation series
 * Yo-kai that made an appearance in the anime should have a seperate article with (anime) next to their names. The Yo-kai that make an appearance in game should not have (game) next to their name.
 * Yo-kai that made an appearance in the anime should not have the following article structure as seen above. Game data must be removed and replaced with History. Profile must be removed from there as well.
 * Do not use EP as article link through the anime characters. Do place an official title in which the character appear in. If there is an usage of EP, the entire section will be removed from the article. Also, any headers and links that contains M (as in movie) will also be removed from the article. Give it their original name even if the title is long or not dubbed yet.

Medium articles
Medium articles have a different approach than character articles and Yo-kai articles. Mediums can be broken in multiple ways, such as games, film, manga and comic. When creating a film article, do not create or add a template, as they do not contain valuable information that cannot be a added or created inside of the template. Full explaination will be done through their respective articles.
 * Video games
 * Film
 * Episodes
 * Chapters

Features articles
There are articles that represents the features from the game or mechanism that appears in the franchise, such as Request and Favors, [Yo-kai Watch (item)|Yo-kai Watch]], Fusion, and Evolution. Those articles should be written in an encyclopedic manner and not in the form of you writing a guideline or on a forum. The article can be altered by the founder of the wiki ot its liking that benefits the wiki in making it more structured and informative. Be cautious that your work will be altered after creating one. If you retaliate against it or something that breaks the policy, you will be banned from the wiki without an warning.

Summaries of articles
When writing a summary, do note that you should write the story of episodes, movies, chapters or anything else. Do not write very short summaries as the context will be removed from the wiki as it is useless for use. Do not start the summary with Natsume is one of the protagonists in Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King. This will be removed from the wiki. Do write a summary professionally and not quickly with standard context. If you disagree on this, then it is your loss as it will not be reverted normally to how it first was after you've edited it. If you make an edit war about it, then the article will be locked and be prevented from contribution, as well you will receive a warning with the explanation why your edits has been reverted. Do start when writing a summary with Nathan, Katie, Eddie, and Bear were talking about bugs with each other at Triangle Park, not Nathan first appearaed in Yo-kai Watch were he meets Whisper. etc.

Categories
You should not create random categories or request for categories. Categories for characters that appears in each seperate Yo-kai Watch game or spin-offs should be included in their articles, but not if they are a resident in places. Yo-kai characters should not have very random categories such as what gender they are or might be, which is because it could be tricky, what color they have, what team they are in, if they are a protagonist or antagonist, or anything else. Categories should only have a single line of what the category contains. Categories are not meant to be a model of an article page. If that is created and discovered, the category will be removed from the wiki and from the articles it has been added to. The contributor will receive a warning if they have done that.

To be more specific what kind of categories are allowed for each different articles are the following:

Other information concerning the policy
The contributor should follow this policy accordingly and the policy will be adjust for the time being if something occurs that has not been written yet. Do note that the wiki does not accept information taken from the Yo-kai Watch Wiki of Wikia and that this wiki works closely with Yo-kai Watch World. We are allowed to use images and data from the website and in return we credit them for providing it to us. This maintains a close partnership between the two websites and strives to become partners with many other Yo-kai Watch websites. Do not take images of wanted Yo-kai from Yo-kai Watch World, as they are given to them and thus those are the images that are copyrighted. If happened and we received a message from Yo-kai Watch World about it, the image will be removed and you will be banned from the wiki for uploading it. So, stay aware of doing something like that.