Vocaloid Wiki:Policy/Page Guide

This is the Vocaloid Wiki's Manual of Style, these policies are ultimately guidelines. If contributors find a policy restrictive to a pages growth, please use the forums to start a discussion.

Please do not do any reorganization and cleanup of wikitext on the wiki unless you are fixing things to follow this style guideline. Vandalism is strictly prohibited and will be dealt with by this Wiki's Administrators.

VOCALOID mascots/characters
A VOCALOID mascots/characters layout can be loaded using the preload template  .


 * Introduction - The beginning of the article will hold introductory information. This includes, the Infobox Vocaloid, a summarization of the character in question.
 * History - Historical and background information on the character. Depending on the character's product status this section will not remain on a character's main page, it will instead be transferred to the Voice bank page.
 * Concept - Development and background information on a character's purpose/creation.
 * Etymology - Information on a character's name.
 * Appearance - Physical description of the character.
 * Relations - Information on related character's to the main character/subject.
 * Music featuring  - Information and links about a character's music status on the Wiki. This section uses the Music featuring template.
 * Examples of usage - This section will display up to four or eight songs that feature the vocals of the character. This section uses a Examples of usage header format and a sub-page. See Help:Vocaloid Examples of usage for more information.
 * Search for music featuring - This displays a listing of external links to various video and audio hosting services. This section uses the External search for Vocaloid and External search listing templates.
 * Additional information - The beginning section to accumulate sub-headers.
 * Marketing - Information on how a character was marketed to the public. If this section continues to grow, it will require a separate article.
 * Trivia - Information that usually could not be worked into the main article sections. This section is to be done in a listing form using an asterisk " * "
 * Reputation - The beginning section to mark the usage of the Reputation template. See Help:Vocaloid Reputation for more information.
 * Polls - Trivial information that will display a poll exclusive to the character in question. This section uses the Poll vocaloidpage template.
 * Gallery - This displays an accumulation of official images of a character. Depending on the character's product status this section will not remain on a character's main page, it will instead be transferred to the sub-page gallery.
 * Reference - Just the ==References== section with a tag below it. To collect the tag info in the page. Individual bits of info should be tagged with specific citation other than just the general sources section.
 * External links - This displays a listing of external links to official websites in relation to the character/subject. This section uses the Website cell row template.
 * Navigation - The beginning section to mark the usage of the Company and Nav Voicebanks libs templates. This section uses a Navigation header format. See Nav 1stplace template for an example.
 * Interwiki linkage - This is a non-header section that uses the Interlang template. It is to be placed between the navigation and category templates, it is used to link to other Vocaloid Wiki's.
 * Category - This is a non-header section that uses the CategorizeArticle template. It will sort a page into one of many Wiki categories. The template is used to prevent RTE(Rich Text Editor) errors that happen with the default Wikia skin.