MushuReport:Manual of Style

This Manual of Style outlines the acceptable practices governing article construction on Mushu Report Wiki, ensuring consistent language, layout and formatting.

Card Page

Card pages are the backbone of the wiki, their importance is emphasized. It's important to reiterate that Mushu Report Wiki is not a fan-content Wiki and therefore fan cards are not allowed to be added. Contributors are encouraged to keep fan content withing their User Page and avoid using Templates that add pages into Main Space Categories. Only cards acknowledged by an official Lorcana source should be added. Mushu Report Wiki does not encourages nor condones leaked materials or information, including but not limited to cards, products, events or promotions."

Title of a Card Page

For page creation the title of the Card Page should be the Card Name. For Characters and Locations, please use en dash (-) to separate the main name from the Version. This is the character commonly found in all English language keyboards. Other than this dash, no other dash should be used; instead a hyphen (‐) should be used if the card so requires.

Examples:

Wreck‐It Ralph - Demolition Dude	The character's name "Wreck‐It Ralph" contains a hyphen.
Happy - Good‐Natured	The version "Good‐Natured" contains a hyphen.
Tick‐Tock - Ever‐Present Pursuer	Both the character's name and the version contain a hyphen each.

Abilities

Activated abilities must use an em dash (–) to separate the Cost from the effect. Any other instance of dashes can use a normal en dash (-) commonly found in all English language keyboards. If an ability has the effect of giving another card or itself another Activated ability, the new ability must also use an en dash (-) between the cost and the effect. Negative numerical effects also use a normal en dash (-).

Examples:

, 2 – Deal 1 damage to chosen character.	Cost and effect are separated by an em dash.
Your characters with Reckless gain “ - Gain 1 lore.”	Cost and effect for the gained ability use an en dash.
Chosen character gets -2 until the start of your next turn.	Negative effect on Strength uses an en dash.

Flavor text

Quotes

Quotes found in flavor text use (at least in English) the opening double quote ( “ ), and the closing double quote ( ” ). Other languages, notably German, may use different quotes; these are included on the card form for easy copy and pasting. These are different from the straight double quote (") character found in all English language keyboards. The character saying the quote (if listed in the flavor text) should always use a line break (<br>) followed by an em dash (–), and the character's name should link to a character page (even if the page doesn't exist yet).

The first instance of a character's name (other than the quote's author) should link to a character page (even if the page doesn't exist yet). Indirect mentions (IE "you", "he", "she", etc) should not link to character pages, since there is no context to assure which character the text is referring to.

Any instance of ellipsis should use three dots (...) instead of the elipsis (…) character. Any instances of hyphened words should use a hypen (‐) instead of an en dash (-). Example: ten‐thousand, far‐off, warm‐up, double‐cross, etc...

Text

Always try to format text in the same way as on the card. If the text is cut short, use a line break (<br>) instead of pressing "enter" multiple times.

Example:

It rages through the forest, Wings spread wide with flame Spring sings its ancient chorus And green renews its claim

It rages through the forest,<br>Wings spread wide with flame<br>Spring sings its ancient chorus<br>And green renews its claim

As with quotes, the first instance of a character's name should link to a character page (even if the page doesn't exist yet). Indirect mentions (IE "you", "he", "she", etc) should not link to character pages, since there is no context to assure which character the text is referring to.

Any instance of ellipsis should use three dots (...) instead of the elipsis (…) character. Any instances of hyphened words should use a hypen (‐) instead of an en dash (-). Example: ten‐thousand, far‐off, warm‐up, double‐cross, etc...

Q Template

Another option is to use the {{Q}} template to insert flavor text. This will handle all of the formatting for the flavor text based on the language and the kind of text.

• To enter plain text, enter {{Q|Text=EN|*Flavor text*}}. The flavor text entered will be displayed with no formatting.

• To enter a quote that is not attributed to a character, enter {{Q|Quote=EN|*Flavor text*}}. This will format the text with quotes around the text. Changing EN to FR, DE, or IT will use the appropriate quotation marks.

• To enter a quote that includes a character attribution, enter {{Q|Quote=EN|*Flavor text*|*Character name*}}. This will add the quotation marks to the text, and the character name with a hyphen, as well as creating a link to the character's page. The character name will automatically be changed to match the language.

• If the quote is attributed to a character that does not have a character page yet, and the displayed name needs to be different based on language, enter {{Q|Quote=EN|*Flavor text*|*Character name*|*Alternative character name*}}. The alternative character name will be displayed instead of the normal character name.

Examples:

Template	Result
{{Q|Text=EN|Shining, shimmering, splendid...}}	Shining, shimmering, splendid...
{{Q|Quote=EN|It'll take more than that to knock me out of the race!}}	“It'll take more than that to knock me out of the race!”
{{Q|Quote=DE|Oh ho! Der Straßenjunge hat also ein Schwert '''und''' ein Rückgrat!|Razoul}}	„Oh ho! Der Straßenjunge hat also ein Schwert und ein Rückgrat!“ –Rasul
{{Q|Quote=FR|Deux, quatre, six et trois font neuf, plus deux font onze…|Roger|Rogier}}	“Deux, quatre, six et trois font neuf, plus deux font onze…” –Rogier

Character Page

A character page should be created whenever a character card is added. After a card page is made, the name of the character will link to the character page, and can be clicked to create the character page directly (if one does not already exist).

The title of the character page should always be Card Name (character). If the name contains dashes, a hyphen (‐) should be used instead of an en dash (-).

The content of the character page will only contain a {{CharacterInfobox}} template call. The following properties for the template call should be included:

Property	Usage	Example
I=	The name of the image the character page will display. If there is more than one option, either the first revealed image should be used, or a consensus should be reached with other wiki members.	I=Ariel-OnHumanLegs-1-1
Franchise=	The name of the franchise the character belongs to.	Franchise=The Little Mermaid
FR=	The French name of the character. If this is not yet known, it can be left blank.	FR=Archimėde
DE=	The German name of the character. If this is not yet known, it can be left blank.	DE=Arielle
IT=	The Italian name of the character. If this is not yet known, it can be left blank.	IT=Artù
ER=	This is only included if there is no Italian version of the card, and therefore the Italian name is uncertain. If this is the case, it should be set to ER=y. Otherwise it should be left out of the template call.	ER=y

Example:

{{CharacterInfobox
|I=Tiana-CelebratingPrincess-2-196
|Franchise=The Princess and the Frog
|FR=Tiana
|DE=Tiana
|IT=Tiana
|ER=y
}}