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Following are formatting guidelines for television shows generally, with helpful shortcuts for specific shows.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer uses a common Wikiquote TV-show formatting scheme that provides unambiguous attribution of quotes in a dialog format, includes Wikipedia links to character pages, and organizes all quotes in chronological order, grouped by episode. The additional overhead of maintaining such organization can be intimidating for new editors, or even regular wiki editors who are used to one-line quotes, often without attribution.
This format page describes the formatting practices and provides text that allows editors to copy-and-paste format elements into the main article. It also describes how and where to add new quotes, especially if one doesn't know where the quote belongs.
This quote page is divided into seasons and episodes. To add a quote, first find the relevant episode and copy the formatting of an existing quote as a starting point. If you don't know the episode, place it in the Unknown episode section near the bottom of the page and someone'll put it in the right place.
Second, look up the quote in a transcript (Buffyworld.com or Buffy-vs-angel.com) and find where in the episode it belongs. The order in which quotes appear in an episode is important.
Many great quotes from the show are dialogues, which confound usual quote formatting. If the following instructions are too much, use the simplified version:
Above all, remember the initial colon (:) and the blank line between different quotes. Someone will pretty it up later. Or you can create
by typing
It works as follows:
Don't add any blank line within a dialogue quote, but do add one between two quotes. Buffy:Fromnow on,every girl who might be a slayer,will be a slayer.Every girl who could have the power,will have the power
Here is a set of preformatted character names that, if you paste it into your quotes, will provide full formatting and linking abilities, including disambiguation for common names. They're separated into regular and recurring characters, and sorted by the names they're typically called in the show.
Longer dialogues may require explanations, but please make any comment succinct. Italicize it and put braces around it. To insert:
type
In order to make the article clearer without adding too much blank space for one skin, use the following HTML between each pair of dialog sections:
The standard Wiki line markup "----" looks exactly like the horizontal lines in Monobook headings. The Monobook skin that is the default for anonymous and registered users makes it difficult to see separations made with the Classic skin and its stylesheet. Other solutions only work for specific skins, too.
Please verify quotes by watching the episodes whenever possible to confirm them. Otherwise, check highly reliable sources like buffy-vs-angel.com or Buffyworld.com. Try to leave out stage directions.
IMDb is atrociously error-prone. Use it only as a starting point.
The Cleveland Show uses a common Wikiquote TV-show formatting scheme that provides unambiguous attribution of quotes in a dialog format, includes Wikipedia links to character pages, and organizes all quotes grouped by episode. The additional overhead of maintaining such organization can be intimidating for new editors.
This format page describes the formatting practices and provides text that allows editors to copy-and-paste format elements into the main article. It also describes how and where to add new quotes, especially if one doesn't know where the quote belongs.
For maximum information content and readability, all quotes are listed in their respective episodes. If you don't know which episode a quote belongs to, but you know the character who uttered it, add it to their sub-section in the Unknown episode section.
Other editors that monitor this page frequently will review the new quotes and move them into the correct position.
MediaWiki, the software used to operate Wikiquote, does not provide convenient formatting for dialog. Many variations of HTML and wiki markup have been tested, but the following guidelines used on this page have achieved considerable popularity. (NOTE: These guidelines can be overwhelming in their entirety. See Shortcuts below on how to get started.)
The most important element of Wikiquote articles is, of course, the quotes themselves. If you are just getting started contributing to these highly formatted quote pages, or you feel it's too much work, you can add a quote or dialog segment with only a slight amount of formatting and no context or stage directions:
In additional to the quoted text, this minimal formatting ensures that each dialog line is on a seperate physical line, and each line is attributed to a character. The editors who regularly monitor this article can add the rest of the formatting at a later date. But we encourage you to learn the basic rules as you get comfortable, and use the character-list text to provide readers with links to the characters' Wikipedia articles.
The purpose of Wikiquote is to provide quotes that are memorable as presented in text form on a page. It cannot do justice to quotes that are interesting because of accompanying visual imagery or sounds that cannot be briefly and usefully described. It is also not a source for full transcriptions of programs or even of entire scenes. (The former is the province of fan sites; both it and the latter are technically copyright violations, which Wikiquote does not accept.) Please bear in mind when considering adding a quote whether the quote would be interesting to someone who has never seen the show, and has no means to see it. In other words, make sure the quote's "interest factor" can be demonstrated by the quote itself, with at most only a little contextual information. One expection may be notorious one-line or similarly short quotes that somehow exemplify the show itself, like a motto or a catch phrase.
To avoid copyright violations, only two quotes per 30-minute episode may be included. (See Wikiquote:Limits on quotations#Television).
Editors providing quotes for TV shows and films should note that the vast majority of quote websites are notoriously inaccurate. Even well-respected sources like IMDb are plagued with quotes that people add as they remember them, not as they observe and verify by examining the program from which the quotes are taken. Even reviewing the program, on must consider how it may have been edited for telecast or presented in some form other than a canonical version (e.g., edited for time and/or content, deleted scenes from a DVD, alternate endings). And different people may watch the same scene and think they heard different words. Because of this, please be careful about using quotes from sources other than the original program. If there is any dispute about the accuracy of a quote, please bring it up on the talk page of the main article.
Below is a set of preformatted character names that can be copied and pasted into quotes to provide full formatting and linking to Wikipedia articles. They are seperated into regular and reccuring characters.
Family Guy uses a common Wikiquote TV-show formatting scheme that provides unambiguous attribution of quotes in a dialog format, includes Wikipedia links to character pages, and organizes all quotes grouped by episode. The additional overhead of maintaining such organization can be intimidating for new editors.
This format page describes the formatting practices and provides text that allows editors to copy-and-paste format elements into the main article. It also describes how and where to add new quotes, especially if one doesn't know where the quote belongs.
For maximum information content and readability, all quotes are listed in their respective episodes. If you don't know which episode a quote belongs to, but you know the character who uttered it, add it to their sub-section in the Unknown episode section.
Other editors that monitor this page frequently will review the new quotes and move them into the correct position.
MediaWiki, the software used to operate Wikiquote, does not provide convenient formatting for dialog. Many variations of HTML and wiki markup have been tested, but the following guidelines used on this page have achieved considerable popularity. (NOTE: These guidelines can be overwhelming in their entirety. See Shortcuts below on how to get started.)
The most important element of Wikiquote articles is, of course, the quotes themselves. If you are just getting started contributing to these highly formatted quote pages, or you feel it's too much work, you can add a quote or dialog segment with only a slight amount of formatting and no context or stage directions:
In additional to the quoted text, this minimal formatting ensures that each dialog line is on a separate physical line, and each line is attributed to a character. The editors who regularly monitor this article can add the rest of the formatting at a later date. But we encourage you to learn the basic rules as you get comfortable, and use the character-list text to provide readers with links to the characters' Wikipedia articles.
The purpose of Wikiquote is to provide quotes that are memorable as presented in text form on a page. It cannot do justice to quotes that are interesting because of accompanying visual imagery or sounds that cannot be briefly and usefully described. It is also not a source for full transcriptions of programs or even of entire scenes. (The former is the province of fan sites; both it and the latter are technically copyright violations, which Wikiquote does not accept.) Please bear in mind when considering adding a quote whether the quote would be interesting to someone who has never seen the show, and has no means to see it. In other words, make sure the quote's "interest factor" can be demonstrated by the quote itself, with at most only a little contextual information. One exception may be notorious one-line or similarly short quotes that somehow exemplify the show itself, like a motto or a catch phrase.
To avoid copyright violations, only two quotes per 30-minute episode may be included. (See Wikiquote:Limits on quotations#Television).
Editors providing quotes for TV shows and films should note that the vast majority of quote websites are notoriously inaccurate. Even well-respected sources like IMDb are plagued with quotes that people add as they remember them, not as they observe and verify by examining the program from which the quotes are taken. Even reviewing the program, one must consider how it may have been edited for telecast or presented in some form other than a canonical version (e.g., edited for time and/or content, deleted scenes from a DVD, alternate endings). And different people may watch the same scene and think they heard different words. Because of this, please be careful about using quotes from sources other than the original program. If there is any dispute about the accuracy of a quote, please bring it up on the talk page of the main article.
Below is a set of preformatted character names that can be copied and pasted into quotes to provide full formatting and linking to Wikipedia articles. They are separated into regular and recurring characters.
Firefly uses a common Wikiquote TV-show formatting scheme that provides unambiguous attribution of quotes in a dialog format, includes Wikipedia links to character pages, and organizes all quotes in chronological order, grouped by episode. The additional overhead of maintaining such organization can be intimidating for new editors, or even regular wiki editors who are used to one-line quotes, often without attribution.
This format page describes the formatting practices and provides text that allows editors to copy-and-paste format elements into the main article. It also describes how and where to add new quotes, especially if one doesn't know where the quote belongs.
For maximum information content and readability, all quotes are organized by episode and listed in the order they appear within each episode. Since many editors may not know where a quote belongs, the following guidelines are provided:
Other editors that monitor this page frequently will review the new quotes and move them into the correct position.
MediaWiki, the software used to operate Wikiquote, does not provide convenient formatting for dialog. Many variations of HTML and wiki markup have been tested, but the following guidelines used on this page have achieved considerable popularity. (NOTE: These guidelines can be overwhelming in their entirety. See Shortcuts below on how to get started.)
The most important element of Wikiquote articles is, of course, the quotes themselves. If you are just getting started contributing to these highly formatted quote pages, or you feel it's too much work, you can add a quote or dialog segment with only a slight amount of formatting and no context or stage directions:
In additional to the quoted text, this minimal formatting ensures that each dialog line is on a separate physical line, and each line is attributed to a character. The editors who regularly monitor this article can add the rest of the formatting at a later date. But we encourage you to learn the basic rules as you get comfortable, and use the character-list text to provide readers with links to the characters' Wikipedia articles.
The purpose of Wikiquote is to provide quotes that are memorable as presented in text form on a page. It cannot do justice to quotes that are interesting because of accompanying visual imagery or sounds that cannot be briefly and usefully described. It is also not a source for full transcriptions of programs or even of entire scenes. (The former is the province of fan sites; both it and the latter are technically copyright violations, which Wikiquote does not accept.) Please bear in mind when considering adding a quote whether the quote would be interesting to someone who has never seen the show, and has no means to see it. In other words, make sure the quote's "interest factor" can be demonstrated by the quote itself, with at most only a little contextual information. One exception may be notorious one-line or similarly short quotes that somehow exemplify the show itself, like a motto or a catch phrase. Consider, in this case, if someone might think of an odd expression (like "Hi-keeba!") and wonder where it comes from (Mystery Science Theater 3000, taken from Women of the Prehistoric Planet).
Editors providing quotes for TV shows and films should note that the vast majority of quote websites are notoriously inaccurate. Even well-respected sources like IMDb are plagued with quotes that people add as they remember them, not as they observe and verify by examining the program from which the quotes are taken. Even reviewing the program, one must consider how it may have been edited for telecast or presented in some form other than a canonical version (e.g., edited for time and/or content, deleted scenes from a DVD, alternate endings). And different people may watch the same scene and think they heard different words. Because of this, please be careful about using quotes from sources other than the original program. If there is any dispute about the accuracy of a quote, please bring it up on the talk page of the main article.
Below is a set of preformatted character names that can be copied and pasted into quotes to provide full formatting and linking to Wikipedia articles. They are separated into regular and recurring characters.
As mentioned above in Basic quote formatting, these fully linked character attributions should only be used once per episode for each character, whenever the quoted character first enters the dialog. (If you find yourself adding a quote before the first dialog segment in an episode, you can add the fully linked version or not if you wish. Someone will likely come along and tweak it if necessary.)
JoJo uses a format based off of the general TV series formatting scheme, but due to the nature of the series, deviates slightly from it.
The page is divided into parts, and from there, into story arcs. Dialogue, monologues, and the like should be put in their respective arc or episode, while phrases a character may be known for can be included in Catchphrases (i.e. muda muda, wry, or eat shit, asshole! Fall off your horse!. Be sure to put everything where it belongs, and if adding a new section for a spin-off, add it underneath the main parts (Phantom Blood through JoJolion.)
Typical TV formatting is used for quotes.
Use <hr width=50%/> to separate quotes within a single story arc or episode.
Whenever possible, verify them! You can use existing references where possible (check the references to see if the one you need is already named!), or, if adding new references, use these formats:
Replace 'sdc' and 'Stardust Crusaders' with the appropriate abbreviation. PB should be used for Phantom Blood, BT for Battle Tendency, and DiU for Diamond is Unbreakable. Include the year(s) that the anime sesdon aired.
Use the total volume or chapter number, rather than the volume number of the actual part. (i.e. Vol.87, instead of Vol.11.)
Because of inconsistent translations into English as well as copyright issues, different variations of names exist out there. We'd like to have only one form of the same name used consistently throughout the article. The names used should be the ones the characters are called throughout the series; not necessarily their first names. If you aren't sure which name is correct, refer to this article.
Most of the guidelines in Firefly (TV series)/Format apply. The only substantially different thing is the character list:
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