Roblox Wiki talk:Manual of Style/Archive 1

Some Opinions
Just thought I'd leave my opinion on these things before the manual of style is created...

Since ROBLOX is based in the US, I feel like American English should be the only thing that is used on the ROBLOX Wikia, unless that specific ROBLOX asset uses British English (such as a hat that might have the name The Colour Purple).

For references, how would we go about creating a uniform reference? I personally write my references in APA style, but that would probably be way more formal than what we should do for the wiki. Would something like this work?

Author Name (last name, first name (or ROBLOX name, if applicable)). Title of Reference. Source of reference. Date for reference (if applicable). link (if applicable). So, for example, if I were to do a reference based off this ROBLOX blog post, I would do


 * Cutigni, Joanni. ROBLOX Discontinuing Support for Mac OSX10.6. ROBLOX Blog. September 7, 2016. http://blog.roblox.com/2016/09/roblox-discontinuing-support-for-mac-os-x-10-6/

There's a few more things that I would want to add to the manual, but I'll do that once I'm done with my classes (either later on this afternoon or after my med-surg class tomorrow. I really should be crying -I mean cramming- for my communities nursing quiz...).When in doubt, should we follow a super simplified version of Wikipedia's manual of style?

Acebatonfan (talk) 12:11, October 10, 2016 (UTC)
 * Replying to Thread:161626 and this, Wikipedia does not mandate a specific citation style, but does discourage bare URLs.
 * I myself use BibLaTeX's default styles when I'm not required to follow the Chicago style. I'm completely fine with anything that isn't bare URLs or obviously typographically bad. --Mark Otaris (talk) 00:44, August 23, 2017 (UTC)

Request for semi-protection
This page should be semi-protected because it is in project namespace and it is a manual of style. It should be also move protected to admins only. Can one of six administrators protect this page? Michael Jackson 16:04, October 10, 2016 (UTC)

My two cents
In my few years here on Wikia, I have a pretty uniformed style that I typically use. I'll share those:
 * Because I live in Australia, I typically revert to the British English variant when informally talking (on the forums, chat, and message walls), but use American English when writing articles, depending on the subject.
 * I only ever use British English when writing in main space pages if the subject is British, or if the subject is from a British or Australian origin, or when directly quoting.


 * This is the same when writing currencies; in this case, I formally and informally write


 * When italicising, I would typically italicise emphasised words, or the mentioning of a word or letter (see Use-mention distinction).

MaintenanceRequired (talk) 04:51, October 11, 2016 (UTC)

Currency templates
I don't think the currency templates (ROBUX template, mainly) are very appropriate in article text. The icons are fine in infoboxes and other templates, but in text they look out of place. I think the same of class icons in article text versus in templates or lists. However, since many articles use the templates and many write the currency amounts out, I don't think the manual of style should give any recommendation for article text except to write 'ROBUX' instead of 'Robux' and to be consistent inside of a given article. --Mark Otaris (talk) 01:31, December 16, 2016 (UTC)