The Manuel of Style is the policy for The Orville Wiki articles. It is heavily encouraged that all new users read it before editing.
Purpose
The Orville Wiki serves to provide educational information on the characters, cast, and world of the Fox Television series by the same name. This is best done with clear and consistent language/formatting throughout all of the articles. The editing patterns and strategies that best illustrate this cohesion are what is ultimately encouraged by the Manuel's policies.
It should be noted however that everything listed here are simply general guidelines for how pages should be created. Similar to Wikipedia if a rule is actively hindering the website or page development there are special cases it can be altered or completely ignored.
Universal Etiquette
For all aspects of editing that are universal to all articles on the Wiki, regardless of category.
- The first mention of a page's title within an article it must be bolded.
- Ex. The Orville is a spaceship from the 25th century. Any mention of the title afterwards needs no special font.
- Articles must be written in third person and with present tense. The tone is meant to draw parallels towards a formal encyclopedia, not to a casual guide or an in-universe retelling.
- This is an american wiki, based on american television series, and therefor uses american english for all spelling related content.
- Ex. Alara Kitan received a medal of honor from Captain Mercer would be right, spelling the bolded instead as "honour" however would be wrong.
- Pages should only hyperlink other articles once, preferably the first time they are mentioned.
- Ex. Ed Mercer is the Captain of The Orville. Ed Mercer first gained this position after his promotion by Admiral Halsey. Note the how Mercer's page was only linked once.
Article Bodies
Characters
Any pages involving in The Orville should be formatted in a specific order:
- Infobox
- Quote
- Introduction
- History
- Episodic subsections in chronological order of debut
- Personality
- Trivia
- Appearances
- Categories
Species
Any pages involving in The Orville should be formatted in a specific order:
- Infobox
- Quote
- Introduction
- History
- Subsections of important milestones for the species evolution
- Biology
- Subsections for complex or important aspects of their genome
- Notorious Members
- Trivia
- Categories
Planets
Any pages involving in The Orville should be formatted in a specific order:
- Infobox
- Quote
- Introduction
- History
- Subsections for important milestones
- Geography
- Subsections for complex or important aspects of the planet's landscape
- Culture
- Subsections for complex or important aspects
- Trivia
- Appearances
- Categories
Vessels
Any pages involving in The Orville should be formatted in a specific order:
- Infobox
- Quote
- Introduction
- Description
- Subsections for complex aspects
- Design
- Subsections for complex aspects
- Personnel
- Trivia
- Appearances