Editing Guidelines

Have you decided to join this wiki? That's absolutely fantastic! Before you begin editing though here are a few rules and other things.

1. No offensive language. Unless directly quoted from texts, please refrain from any offensive language (e.g b*tch, f*ck, etc.)
2. Do not spam pages or delete all the content from a page. At. All.
3. Be respectful to everyone who is actively contributing and trying to help this wiki grow, or fixing mistakes, as well as members of our wikia community. This does not apply to breakers of these rules.
4. Please write all content from an unbiased viewpoint. Please do not definitively call the Sons of Ares righteous, or the Golds as evil and inhumane, for example, unless as a quote directly from text used to help describe them and what others think of them.
5. Please refrain from changing any page titles.

Please try your best not to make dead-end pages and include links as much as possible.

Ready to edit? Perhaps first look at our dead end pages! They need a few friends and we have to link them up! If not then perhaps try expanding our short pages, they can't grow on their own!

UPDATE [5/1/20]:

LAYOUT AND STANDARD PROTOCOL ON HOW TO EDIT/ADD TO THE WIKI

Please read this thread before adding and editing information on the site to get a better understanding of its format. This thread is to help format the Red Rising Wiki more uniformly, even with many different people adding/editing information on here. I will try to update it when necessary. 

Double checking - Make sure you don't create pages/categories/characters that have already been created. Check and re-check.

Infoboxes - It's highly recommended that an Infobox be included in each character page, though some characters are quite minor it might not be necessary. There are infoboxes specifically for characters, sites, planets, moons, and sectors.

US vs UK spelling - It is not mandatory or priority to "correct" the spelling of a word if it's spelled the European way, and vice versa, as both spellings are correct, unless the word is actually misspelled. 

Timeline - Information in the Timeline should be minimal. Details of event or character should be inputted into the page of said character/event. Any information inputted may be edited for that reason. 

New pages - When creating a new page for a character (who doesn't have a page yet), the character name should be in the first line of the page, and it should be in bold type. The same should go for any other item, location, or event that has a page created for it. 

Main page - Can only be edited by administrators of the wiki. If you feel there is something that needs to be added to the main page, please notify an administrator. If you wish to be an administrator, please contact me. 

References List - References should be listed in 3 parts, the name of the source, the title, and the date of the source. The URL should be linked through the title.  Example is "Pierce Brown on Reddit, Dark Age AMA - Bring a Knife to a Fistfight - July 26, 2019" and "A Drawing or Three - Pierce Brown and a tale of Red Rising - February 2014."

PAGE TYPE LAYOUTS:

Updated: 5/1/2020

STANDARD PAGE RULES:

Headings: Be short, concise and relate to the overarching theme of that section. Should not be Italicized, Bold, or Underlined.

• Example: Flora and Fauna

Sub-Heading 1: Should be Bold and Underlined.

Sub-Heading 2: Should be Bold only.

Images: Include an Italicized caption briefly describing the image. Image should relate to Red Rising. Fan-art is acceptable and the artist should be linked in the image’s description, not in the caption. Fan art or images from other Fandoms is not acceptable.

• Example: Pierce Brown and his dog, Eo.

Blockquotes: Should always be Italicized.

References: If from one of the novels, should be referenced as Book Title, Chapter Number. If from one of the comics, should be referenced as Volume, Issue Number. If from an interview, should be Video Title, YouTube Link. If from Pierce's Social Media, should be "Pierce Brown on <platform>, Link.

Involvement Headers: Should be split into prominent events (Sub-Heading 1), sub-sectioned further by the year(s) the events happened in (Bullet Points), in correlation with the Red Rising Wiki Timeline

GOLD FAMILY HOUSE PAGE:

House Pages should begin with a block quote of the House Motto and its English translation, followed by a brief overview of the House. The Headings should be as follows, should they apply to the current knowledge of the House.

• Standard
• Involvement
  • Members
  •      Biological
  •      Marriage
  •      Employees
  •      Ex-Employees
  •      Bannermen
  •      Pets
• Relationships 
  •      Allied Houses
  •      Enemy Houses
• Quotes
• Trivia
• References

CHARACTER PAGES:

Character Pages should begin with a blockquote of a renowned quote from the character, followed by a color-appropriate infobox, then a brief overview. The brief overview should start with the name(s) of the character in bold. The Headings should be as follows, should they apply to the current knowledge of the Character.

• Appearance
• Personality
• Abilities
• Weapon(s) of Choice
• Involvement
• Relationships
  •     Family
  •     Romantic Interests
  •     Friends
  •     Allies
  •     Enemies
• Gallery
• Trivia
• Quotes
• References

PROTOCOL FOR FILLING IN INFOBOXES:

Updated: 3/16/2020

There are 5 color-specific infoboxes with their own CSS and 1 for all the other colors at this time. Here will be a description of how every label in an infobox should be filled out. When a label has more than one answer, list them all out by pressing enter and continuing to write. If you can, link them too. If there is no info, then leave that label blank.

FOR EVERY INFOBOX:

• Alias(es): The names, titles, etc that the character has been called in the series.
• Gender: Should be either Male or Female.
• Age: The ages across the series should be represented as: number-number(bookname)
• Born: Should coincide with the Wiki Timeline
• Died: Should coincide with the Wiki Timeline
• Novels: Every novel the character has appeared physically in. Flashbacks count. Mentions don't.
• Spouse(s): Every individual person that the character has been(or is) married to.
• Child(ren): Every individual child of the character.

• Parents: Both parents of the character.
• Sibling(s): Any siblings the character has.
• Employer(s): Other characters in the series that have/own employment contracts with the character
• Occupation: The job of the character.
• Superior(s): Anyone directly superior to the character, such as Imperators and Legates. Do not mention governmental positions such as Sovereign for a random gray soldier, etc.
• Subordinate(s): Anyone directly subordinate to the character, such as Olympic Knights to The Sovereign. Do not mention a lowRed as subordinate to the ArchGovernor.
• Allies: Anyone who has been directly allied to the character.
• Enemies: Anyone who has been a direct enemy to the character.

-if applicable, put words in () aside the names such as (deceased), (former), (father), (older sister), (adopted), (Morning Star), etc.

COLOR SPECIFIC AREAS TO INCLUDE:

GOLD:

• Tier: If Peerless Scarred, write that. If Shamed, write that. if none, leave blank
• House: The family/Institute house the Gold is in. If none, write that.

PINK:

• Tier: If Rose, write that. If none, leave blank.
• Garden: The name of the garden that the Pink was grown up in. If not, leave blank.

RED:

• Tier: If Helldiver, write that. If not, leave blank.
• Clan: The name of the clan the Red is in. If none, write that.

BLUE:

• Sect: The name of the sect that the Blue is in. if none, write that.

OBSIDIAN:

• Tier: If Stained, write that. If not, leave blank.
• Tribe: The name of the tribe the Obsidian is in. If unknown, write that.

MISC COLORS:

• Color: The color of the character

HOW TO PUT SYMBOLS IN THE TITLES OF INFOBOXES

(Do not include the space between the brackets)

GOLD --> [[ File:Gold_Sigil_Icon.png|left|50px ]] NAME [[ File:Gold_Sigil_Icon.png|right|50px ]]

RED --> [[ File:Red_Sigil_Icon.png|left|20px ]] NAME [[ File:Red_Sigil_Icon.png|right|20px ]]

OBSIDIAN --> [[ File:Obsidian_Icon.png|left|40px ]] NAME [[ File:Obsidian_Icon.png|right|40px ]]

BLUE --> [[ File:Blue_Sigil_Icon.png|left|35px ]] NAME [[ File:Blue_Sigil_Icon.png|right|35px ]]

PINK --> [[ File:Pink_Sigil_Icon.png|left|35px ]] NAME [[ File:Pink_Sigil_Icon.png|right|35px ]]

UNSPECIFIED COLOR INFOBOXES --> COLOR [[ File:(File name of pic of the color's sigil).png|right|15px ]]