Project:Manual of Style

The Manual of Style is the style manual for all articles. It describes the guidelines which should be followed when there is doubt or disagreement about which style to follow in articles. The style manual also gives useful information and advice on article formatting and templates.

Principles
This style guide has multiple purposes. One of them is to resolve conflicts among editors. Another is to suggest good style: some style guidelines are subjective preferences, but others are preferable for objective reasons, either because they are standard and more commonly accepted, or because they resolve ambiguities or have other advantages. The most important purpose of this style guide, though, is consistency among ROBLOX Wikia articles and inside articles; thus it is preferable for an article to use the wrong style everywhere than for it to use the right style in one place and the wrong style everywhere else. This is why whenever you write an article, you should pick one style and stick to it throughout the article, and whenever you contribute new content to an article, you should follow the style currently adopted in that article.

In case of doubt
For all of the matters not discussed on this page, you should refer to the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style or to the simplified version. This manual is too large to memorize and is meant as a reference in case of disagreement between editors or doubt about which style to follow in an article. Just like you're not expected to memorize the entire dictionary before you start writing in English, you don't have to memorize the entire manual of style to contribute to articles on this wiki.

Article structure and titles
This section describes how articles should be structured and section titles formatted.

Article structure
Elements of an article should usually be ordered in this manner:


 * 1) Hatnotes
 * 2) Notices
 * 3) Infoboxes
 * 4) Lead section
 * 5) Table of contents
 * 6) Content
 * 7) See also
 * 8) Notes and references
 * 9) Further reading
 * 10) External links
 * 11) Navboxes
 * 12) Categories


 * Articles begin with an introductory lead section, which appears above the table of contents. The lead section does not have a section heading.
 * Articles should not contain trivia sections or unorganized lists of miscellaneous information.

Titles
Article titles and section titles should be written in sentence case. This is sentence case; This is Not Sentence Case. The original capitalization should be kept for names of games, groups, catalog items, players, events, and classes.

Dates, numbers, currencies
This section deals with formatting of dates, numbers, and currencies.

Dates and time
Dates should be formatted like October 3, 2016 or 3 October 2016, not October 3rd, 2016, October 03, 2016, 2016/10/3, or any other format. The ISO 8601 format yyyy-mm-dd can be used in tables and other locations where the dates need to be short: 2016-10-03. In templates, the #time parser function can be used, while mw.language:formatDate can be used in Scribunto modules.

Time should be formatted either in 12-hour clock times, like 2:30 p.m., or 24-hour clock times, like 14:30. Hours under 10 should have a leading zero in 24-hour clock times, like 02:30, but not in 12-hour clock times (02:30 p.m.).

Numbers
Numbers should be formatted with a comma as the thousands separator for digit grouping and a period as the decimal mark. In templates, the formatnum parser function can be used for this purpose, while mw.language:formatNum can be used in Scribunto modules.

Numbers smaller than ten should usually be written as words instead of digits in article text. That is, you should usually write one, two, three, ..., eight, nine instead of 1, 2, 3, ..., 8, 9,

Currencies
In tables and templates, currencies should usually be formatted with the ROBUX, tickets, ROBLOX points, player points, and clan points templates. This will produce, , , , and. In article text, currencies can either be formatted with these templates or written out, like 100 ROBUX or 100 tickets. However, the style used should be consistent inside of any given article.

Names

 * Write ROBLOX and ROBUX, not Roblox or Robux.

Style
Since the ROBLOX Wikia is an encyclopedia, standard English should be followed in articles. American English should be preferred to other variants of English.


 * Avoid comma splices. That is, independent clauses should be separated by a semicolon, a period, a colon or an em dash, but not by a comma: write Stevenson's romances are entertaining; they are full of exciting adventures. instead of Stevenson's romances are entertaining, they are full of exciting adventures.
 * Profanity should not be used in articles, except where its use is appropriate in an encyclopedic context, such as in quotations.

Templates
This section discusses some templates available for use in articles.

Infoboxes
Infoboxes are panels put at the top right of articles that summarize key information about the article's subject. They are created using templates. Infoboxes are used for articles about catalog items, groups, players, games, events, badges, and classes; you can find the complete list of infobox templates in Category:Infoboxes. The template pages contain documentation on using the template to add an infobox to the article.

Source code
The code template can be used to format source code blocks with syntax highlighting. There are currently no guidelines on how the source code itself should be formatted.

Class link
The class link template should be used to link to a class page in lists and templates. For example, Accessory would produce. In article text, either  or Accessory can be used, but only one of the two styles should be used inside of an article.

Stub
The stub template is appropriate when an article has little to no information. It should be used before any infoboxes or text.