Dead by Daylight Wiki:Style guide

This article aims to provide a comprehensive style guide for all Dead by Daylight Wiki articles to follow. There are often disputes over which style rule or formatting to use so an official style guide helps resolve these disputes and to reaching a consensus.

Although Wikipedia already provides a more general style guide, a more specific one is necessary for Dead by Daylight-specific guidelines. As such, only guidelines pertaining to the Dead by Daylight Wiki and its basic formatting rules are included here.

Notability

Articles are only allowed in the main namespace if they fit the following criteria. Articles which do not fit the criteria may be deleted without notice.

General

• Articles must contain enough information to warrant a full page. If they do not have enough content, they should be merged with other similar articles.
• Articles must pertain directly to Dead by Daylight in some way.
• Articles in the "User:" namespace are exempt from the notability guidelines.

Redirects

Redirects are exempt from the normal notability, but must redirect to an article that fits the notability guidelines. Redirects can be created if they fit one of the following:

• Alternate spelling of the title, such as "Carburetor Tuning Guide" for "Carburettor Tuning Guide".
  • Incorrect spelling, typos, and irregular formatting are not allowed.
• Alternate or shortened name, provided the name is common usage, such as "DS" for "Decisive Strike". Previous in-game names or WIP names are also allowed, such as "Chuckles" for "The Trapper".
• Alternate capitalization or form, including changing the title to plural case.

Article Titles

• Article titles should be in the plural form to maintain consistency.
• Articles should follow a general naming format based on the type.

Writing

As this wiki's purpose is to document facts, you should always avoid speculative and unsourced information. Generally speaking, information does not require sources if they can directly be seen in-game or are otherwise obvious. Other information however, such as quotes from BHVR employees and information that is not widely known, could be sourced with a proper reference.

Articles can be written both in the third-person perspective or with terms referential to the reader, although the third-person perspective is more proper in some cases. Try not to use abbreviations of words either. For instance, sentences like "You shouldn't place Bear Traps out in the open." should be written as "The player should not place Bear Traps out in the open."

To emphasize points, italics and bold should be used, not ALL CAPS.

Spelling

Pages on the wiki should use British English unless the in-game name is American English. For instance, "color" should be "colour" and "center" should be "centre".

Capitalization

Adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and nouns should not be capitalized, unless they start a new sentence. Nouns that represent Unlockables, in-game features, Characters, however, such as Iridescent Head, A Nurse's Calling and Shrine of Secrets should always be capitalized. The same is true for the articles accompanying a Killer's in-game name, such as The Wraith.