User:Stephan222/Sandbox/Draft: Writing guide

Welcome, and thanks for editing Ultrawikia! We hope you enjoy editing here, but there are a few basic things you should know about the structure of our articles. This guide should be both easy to read and faily brief.

While it is not required reading for light editors, before making any major changes to an articles format it should be read, and it will also keep misunderstandings from occuring between yourselves and the admins, and so we highly reccomend reading it.

Writing Style
The content should neither be overly formal and dry nor too laid back. It should be clear, concise, and easy to understand, without overly decorated sentences or casual slang. It should also be interesting: we do not want dry "encyclopedia-like" articles.

Huge blocks of text should be avoided: paragraphs should not be more than five-six sentences long. Basic spelling and grammar should be observed: many browsers have a built in spellchecker, and some text editors, like Microsoft Word, also check the grammar. Redundant paragraphs and sentences should be ommited at all costs, brevity is important here.

Article Format
When editing, please respect the established article format. Do not make any changes to it without making a blog or forum post consulting the community about it. The admins are not an oligarchy: they exist to preserve order in the community and in the articles, but they can and will warn you if you disrupt the established format. Not all of our pages follow the desirable format, however, and so we are creating guides for them.

Ultra Pages
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Kaiju/Alien Pages
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Character Pages
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Episode Pages
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Series Pages
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Episode Guides
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Kaiju Lists
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Galleries
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