Community Style Guidelines: Difference between revisions

Where possible, a belle/ship name should retain any accents or other markings of its native language.  For example, [[Algérie]] retains its accented letter.

To keep large data-dumps off the main belle pages, each belle has (or will have) a "DetailsPage" that contains her stock configuration, information about vestures, and default armor statistics.  Such pages are very legible on mobile devices despite the large amount of data presented.  [[Dunkerque/DetailsPage|Dunkerque]] has an in-progress (circa September 2021) example of a details page.   

Add the following code to any belle without a detail page.  Generally this should be placed after the Gameplay Information section.  This adds a box with an automatically-generated link which invokes a pre-loaded template to build out the belle's detail page.  The editor then only needs to fill all known fields.

Some belles have nothing ''at all'' in a certain category--for instance some destroyers have no secondary battery, most battleships do not equip torpedoes.  See [[Victory Belles Wikia:NoStockPage|this list]] of templates for use on belle detail pages in these circumstances.

The current (September 2021) consensus is that the ''page'' should be the name of the ship the belle represents without any national modifiers (like "USS") or hull designators (like "CA").  Several US belle pages were moved to a namespace with only their name in September 2021.

The current (September 2021) consensus is to refer to the belle in the same way as the page.

"Maury is one of the starting belles available to the United States faction."

There is no current (September 2021) consensus on whether "belle" and "morgana" should be capitalized or not when used on this wiki.  However, once a consensus emerges, wiki editors should strive for consistency.  This page will be updated once a decision is made.

There is no current (September 2021) consensus on capitalization of specific game terms.  For example, when discussing a belle's main battery, should it be written "Battery I" or "battery I?"  Should nouns like "vestures" be capitalized?

Minimize image usage on main pages.  For example, if a belle receives a "skins" page, go nuts with images there, but not on her main page!

Adding belles whose presence has not been confirmed by either the developers or users finding said belle in-game is not allowed.  Yes, we know a "shipgirl" game will probably ''eventually'' get Yamato, but she's not present right now so don't add her (or anyone else) based on guessing.

Almost all the templates for tables on belle "detail pages" are two-column setups with optional column headers and an optional title overall.  These work well on mobile and don't look horrible on desktop.