N1GP:Style guide

The style guide is a set of guidelines for writing articles in the N1GP wiki.

This is not intended to be prescriptive and violating it where it makes sense is encouraged. However, in order for content to be easily found and digested by readers, the guidelines here should take precedence.

Naming

Articles should be named in sentence case, unless the title uses proper nouns. All chip, NaviCust part names, Souls, and Crosses are considered proper nouns.

For chips and NaviCust parts, they should be named by the full name of the chip or part. For instance:

• ❌ BassAnly
• ❌ BassAnomaly
• ✅ Bass Anomaly

If a concept exists across multiple games, the name of the article should be proceeded by the game abbreviation in parentheses, e.g. an article for Bass Anomaly for Battle Network 6 should be named Bass Anomaly (BN6). For concepts that only exist in a single game, it is OK to omit the abbreviation, e.g. Tomahawk Cross.

For chips and NaviCust parts in the same family, we try to group them together to avoid duplicating content. For instance, Corn Shot 1/2/3 should be grouped into the Corn Shot chip series, and Attack +1 and Attack MAX should be grouped into the Attack NaviCust part series.

Content

The first line of an article should contain a brief summary of the topic, along with bolded text containing the name of the article as the first phrase in the article, after any articles (e.g. The). For chips and NaviCust parts, they should describe the "obvious" effect of the chip or part.

Any following paragraphs should go into more detail about the topic. You should try to follow the "funnel" technique of writing: more general details should come first, followed by more specific or technical details.

Terminology

We want to strive to keep terminology used across the wiki consistent. If you see anything using one of the other terms, please change it to the standard term. If you notice that the same concept is being referred to by two different terms and isn't in the list below, please add it.

We should also prefer fully-written out names (e.g. "time-freeze cancel" over TFC) so terms can be self-explanatory in the context they appear in.

Standard term	Other terms
flashing	Invis, invisible, blinking (MMSF term)
frames	i, f
invulnerable	invincible, "green"
paralyzed (status effect)	paralysis
time-freeze cancel	cut in (official), TFC
time freezing	dimming (official)