User blog:Unfortunate Mermaid/A Guide to Articles.

Well, here's the first blog post, maybe of few, maybe of many.

After some time it seems we have a basic page structure for individual monsters, obviously not all pages will have this structure as they vary in terms of completion and will have different amounts of detail when considering how many battles, entries or how story-related the monster in question is. However, we have compiled a guide to the order of sections in wiki articles for the Monsterpedia/Encyclopedia to keep everything neat and tidy.

The order for sections in the articles as follows, note that all sections have their headers in "Header 3":
 * Infobar (you can grab the code from other pages and edit it in source mode)
 * Taster info without header (a short introduction to said monster, this puts the text above the contents bar)
 * Biography (story information for central characters)
 * Encyclopedia Entry/Entries (transposed from english translation, in italics)
 * Battle Overview (a look at the attack patterns and basic battle strategy)
 * Strategy (Step by step tactics on various battle tactics)
 * Attacks (attack information, use * for unrequestable attacks)
 * Other Information (such as summon abilities, etc)
 * Trivia (tidbits, interesting info, quirks and all that jazz)

Also, it is important to note that there are various inconsistencies in the current translation, I understand there have been pages changing quite often due to differing stances on what is the "correct" translation. However, until there is a translation that fixes all instances it is best to put the differing names in the trivia section to notify people of the instances and to keep major parts of the information from being edited. There is no real right or wrong answer for the situation right now.

Furthermore, removing huge parts of text is not exactly the best way to go, it is fair to adjust existing information or reitterate it to make it more accurate, however a wiki is a group effort towards a common goal and any additional information is more than welcome, no matter how large or small.

If in doubt just consult other users at the IRC channel at irc.freenode.net at the channel #MonsterGirlQuest, discussion pushes things forward.

A bunch of thanks goes forward to SlurredStaccato for story info, ALAKTORN for the japanese info, shadowblade777 for tidying up formatting on existing and new pages and also our new user who is uploading videos. Also not forgetting Juni221 for starting the wiki.

Horahora,

Unfortunate Mermaid