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
 * Timeline events (special referencing rules apply; see below)
 * Appearance and descriptions.
 * Stated facts

Referencing is not required for:
 * Chronology (unless the mentioned events were told in a different arc/story than the heading implies)
 * Personality (unless there are no specific examples mentioned)

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)