The Manual of Style is a style guide for MTG Salvation Wiki and serves to standardize articles and other pages, with consistent and clear language, layout, and formatting, as much as practical, thereby improving article readability and, broadly, site quality.
In essence MTG Wiki follows the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. However this wiki has a few specialties which will be laid out in the next sections.
American English
American English is preferred, since Wizards is a U.S.-based company.
Utilizing Italics
Magic Products
Magic, Magic: The Gathering as well as all related products are written in Italics.
Innistrad refers to the set, but Innistrad refers to the plane of the same name.
Note that the Innistrad block would not be capitalized, since it is not a magic product.
Ability Words
Ability words should always be italicized in running text (Gotcha! is an exception). Keywords should never be italicized to avoid any confusion.
Epithets
Epithets should not be part of an article name or the character infobox, since characters can be represented by multiple cards with different epithets and it makes searching and linking more difficult.
Special Tools for Editors
- See also Help:Cheatsheet.
The Cheatsheet provides an overview how to display mana symbols (Template:WUBRG), link card or decks and how to display foreign characters.
Card tags
- See also Help:Card tags.
Follow capitalization on the card. Also use the wiki card tag template for card names: <c>Dark Ritual</c> gives Dark Ritual.
Deck tags
- See also Help:Deck tags.
Within deck tags, add the appropriate card types and alphabetize cards within their card type. Card types should be in the following order, if found in that deck:
- Lands - This shows what colors the deck are right away.
- Creatures
- Planeswalkers
- Artifacts - Theses remaining are types by alphabetical order.
- Enchantments
- Instants
- Sorceries
- Sideboard - Last, but certainly not least of any deck.
All cards should be alphabetical within each section. The sideboard is automatically seperated from the main deck.
<d title=Rats>
Landy Creature Artifact Sideboard |
Rats |
New Sets
Use {{subst:ExpansionDummy}} to start a page of a new expansion.
ISBN
ISBN-13 is preferred. For older books, use the ISBN-13 Online Converter.
Professional player pages
Criteria
Professional players should have an article written about them once one of the following criteria are met:
- They have won a Pro Tour or the World Championship
- They have been the Player of the Year of the Rookie of the Year
- They have been inducted into the Hall of Fame
- They have reached 100 lifetime Pro Points
If none of these criteria have been met, an article should generally not be created, unless the player is noteworthy in some arena beyond professional play.
Mentions of disqualifications and suspensions
These are touchy subjects, as they can be the cause of negative attention for the player. In general, it is recommended that the first disqualification obtained at Grand Prix level or below is not mentioned, but once the player has been disqualified twice or more, it is appropriate to include it in the article. At the Pro Tour level or above, the first disqualification should be mentioned. All DCI suspensions are fair game. In all of these cases, being brief, staying completely objective, and providing sources for every claim is critical.