Tearmoon Empire Wiki:Reference Guidelines

This guideline explains how references on the wiki work and lists a number of commonly used references.

Referencing is used because it helps look up facts in case of conflict, as well as tells how reliable the information is.

Referencing is required for:
 * Trivia
 * Appearance and descriptions
 * Stated facts

Referencing is not required for:
 * Personality (unless there are no specific examples mentioned)

These guidelines were greatly inspired by the SAO wiki.

Unnamed references
These references are mostly useful for one-use only references (usually very specific references that can only be used for referencing a single thing). Any references used more than once per article should be named. Technically, all references should be named, but references that are obviously not going to be used on the same page anymore, may be referenced like this if you are too lazy to name it.

Named references
A more common method of coding references, as it allows using repeated references.

Repeated references
Whenever a reference is already used at least once on the page, all you have to do is to repeat the reference name (do not forget the / is used to close the reference) and the wiki will just repeat the reference description itself.

Reference priority
In case of conflict, the following priority list determines which information is deemed canon. The lower priority source's version may be mentioned in trivia or adaptation notes, depending on the context.

Light novel (highest priority) > Anime > Manga > Other sources (lowest priority)

Light Novel
Light novel references follow a standard format of VxCy, where "x" is the volume number and "y" is the chapter number. For named chapters or side stories without a number, the "Cy" is replaced with an abbreviation for the chapter name.