Count Duckula Wiki:Manual of Style

This is Count Duckula Wiki's Manual of Style. All users should follow these guidelines on how text is written.

• Key:
  • Correct
  • Incorrect

Writing

Language

All text should be written in British English and not American English. Examples of how text should be written are below.

• Count Duckula's favourite food is broccoli sandwiches.
• Count Duckula's favorite food is broccoli sandwiches.

• Hoomite and Yoobee are both the colour red.
• Hoomite and Yoobee are both the color red.

Despite this, however, this rule does not apply to user pages, talk pages, comments, and blog posts.

Date and Time

The date and time can be written in all sorts of ways, but what Count Duckula Wiki recommends is either of these ways:

• 00:00, September 6th 1988
• 00:00, 6th September 1988

or

• September 6th 1988, 00:00
• 6th September 1988, 00:00

Like the language rules, this does not apply to user pages, talk pages, comments, and blog posts.

WikiText

All WikiText should be written like this for pages:

• [[Nanny]]

and this for external links:

• Fandom: [[w:c:wikiname:pagename|pagename]]
  • Example: [[w:c:countduckula:Igor|Igor]]
• Non-Fandom:
  • Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:pagename|pagename]]
    • Example: [[Wikipedia:Count Duckula|Count Duckula]]
  • Non-Wikipedia: [link pagename]
    • Example: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088500/ Count Duckula]

File names

All files that are uploaded here should have a proper name. When uploading files, always remember to appropriately name them.