Malazan Wiki:Manual of Style

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Manual of Style • Layout Guide
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Layout guide

Main article: Malazan Wiki:Layout Guide

Display those sections required for the article in the following order

Title tag – Usually not required. Used to alter title (e.g. to italicise it).
Maintenance templates - for example work in progress note
Icon templates - for example spoiler safe icons
Infobox – See Category:Infobox templates for examples.
Opening quote – A simple quote about the subject of the article.
Summary – A short introduction about 'page name'. Avoid blatant spoilers. See here for spoiler guidelines.
Main article – Main body of information - sub-divided under book-headers
History - Historical information about pagename
Trivia – For supporting 'trivial' information for example background info from interview
Speculations – For speculations which are well founded or widely publicised.
Cover gallery – See Gardens of the Moon#Cover gallery for an example.
Appearances – If you want to list publications where this person, item, place, etc has appeared or been mentioned. Not generally in use - for characters see DPs for appearance info
Notes and references – Should have the {{Reflist}} template in it.
See also – For related articles that are not otherwise linked to in the article.
External links – For linking to relevant information that is not on the wiki.
Navigation box – See here for a list: Navigation templates.
Category – See here for a list: Malazan Wiki:Category index
Interwiki links – Such as links to the article in other languages.

Variable layout applies:

Additional layout info:

Maximum widths

Because of the limitations of particularly the Oasis skin, but also in MonoBook there are constraints on how wide images and other things can be on various parts of the page.

Maximum widths of text, tables, divs, etc on a page is 650px. After that it will start to overlap other parts of the page or, in the case of tables, a horizontal scroll bar will appear on the table.
Maximum widths of images is 680px as they can be slightly larger without creating a problem. Additionally the IOTW has a maximum height of 600px

For images on article pages that need to be large (e.g. diagrams) set a maximum width of 450px
Thumbnails will automatically set a maximum width of 250px, which is ideal for landscape images.
For thumbnails that are portraits set a maximum width of 130px
Infobox images are automatically set a maximum width of 270px

Writing style

Spelling

Both authors of the Malazan world are Canadian therefore Canadian English will be used as the baseline language of this wiki.

Tense

Articles are generally written in past tense because there is no omnivalent present time in the Malazan world from the various readers' point of view. Exceptions are the Real World Articles, which include authors and the source material, and chronology articles as these are written in present tense no matter when an event occurred. Other than that, we write like historians in the future of the Malazan world writing about its past.

Linking

The general rule is that the first time linkable text appears on that page it should be linked to and on each subsequent instance it is unlinked (infoboxes and navboxes are exceptions here).

Very short articles

A subject may have only a single piece of information about it that can be sourced from a primary reference. In this case it can still have it's own article.

Theme

Colours

Hex codes for theme colours
Main title	Subsequent titles	Background
#611E03	#8A3931	#EDD9C5

Links in titles need to be made white. Here is an example of how to do it: [[Gardens of the Moon|<font color=white>Gardens of the Moon</font>]]

Standard abbreviations

Linking codes and written abbreviations

Full Title	Linking Codes	Preferred Written Abbreviation
Gardens of the Moon	GM	GotM
Deadhouse Gates	DG	DhG
Memories of Ice	MI	MoI
House of Chains	HC	HoC
Midnight Tides	MT	MT
The Bonehunters	BH	tBh
Reaper's Gale	RG	RG
Toll the Hounds	TH	TtH
Dust of Dreams	DD	DoD
The Crippled God	CG	tCG
The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen		CMBotF

Full Title	Linking Codes	Preferred Written Abbreviation
Night of Knives	NK	NoK
Return of the Crimson Guard	RCG	RotCG
Stonewielder	SW	SW
Orb Sceptre Throne	OST	OST
Blood and Bone	BB	BaB
Assail	A	Assail

Full Title	Linking Codes	Preferred Written Abbreviation
Blood Follows	BF	BF
The Healthy Dead	HD	tHD
The Lees of Laughter's End	LLE	tLoLE
Crack'd Pot Trail	CPT	CPT
The Wurms of Blearmouth	WB	tWoB
The Fiends of Nightmaria	FN	tFoN
Untitled 7th B&KB novel	??
Untitled 8th B&KB novel	??
Untitled 9th B&KB novel	??

Full Title	Linking Codes	Preferred Written Abbreviation
Forge of Darkness	FD	FoD
Fall of Light	FL	FoL
Walk in Shadow	WS	WiS

Full Title	Linking Codes	Preferred Written Abbreviation
Dancer's Lament	DL	DL

Full Title	Linking Codes
Untitled 1st book	??
Untitled 2nd book	??
Untitled 3rd book	??

Using linking codes as written abbreviations is also acceptable (except for Assail). Using allcaps versions is also ok.

Edition abbreviations

Bantam

Edition Name	Preferred Abbreviation
Trade Paperback	UK TPB
Mass-market Paperback	UK MMPB
Hardcover	UK HC

Tor

Edition Name	Preferred Abbreviation
Trade Paperback	US TPB
Mass-market Paperback	US MMPB
Hardcover	US HC
Science Fiction Book Club	US SFBC

Subterranean Press

Edition Name	Preferred Abbreviation
Numbered edition	Sub Press No.
Lettered edition	Sub Press Let.

PS Publishing

Edition Name	Preferred Abbreviation
Trade Paperback	PSP TPB
Mass-market Paperback	PSP MMPB
Various Hardcover editions	PSP HC

Night Shade Books

Edition Name	Preferred Abbreviation
Hardcover	NSB HC

Transworld

Edition Name	Preferred Abbreviation
Bookclub Association	UK BCA
Epub Edition	UK EP

Harper Voyager