Board Thread:Site Problems and Appearance/@comment-25094659-20141202185202/@comment-8161155-20141204221551

MinecraftPercabeth wrote: Peacexfreedom wrote: Sounds good.

So, do we wanna compile an "official" guideline list for future edits on the wikia? Sounds like a good idea to me. This wiki has some nice guidlines, but doesn't mention transcripts at all (that I've been able to find--nobody's perfect). I'm wondering how people even though to add them. I'm gonna try and recap all the things we've discussed real quick.

1. Stage directions/character sounds. I think we can all agree they should be in italics and parentheses. We never really decided about the whole line thing. I think othere characters should not get their own line just for acting unless they talk next, or their part is reasonably long and/or multiple people are acting without speaking (e.g. the Globnar fight), in which case a blank space is probably appropriate. If the character speaking does the action, the name is not needed, neither is a pronoun, unless someone else acted before them in the same space (e.g. "I think we should (pauses)" and "I think we should (Mabel gasps and Dipper pauses)") What about periods? What I've done for consistency is not used periods in stage directions except to separate two or more sentences or for black slates. How about periods after complete sentences (e.g. "I think we should (pauses)" and "I think we should (Mabel gasps and Dipper pauses.)") I disagree. Like I said before, Dipper did not cause Mabel to gasp, so she should have her own line for it. However, a simple rewording would save you from making a whole line (Dipper pauses as Mabel gasps).

2. Narration/Mimicing/etc. I don't think we agreed on this one, but the options were Narration/Speaking in the name box, all others in the speech box, or just their names in their name box. I personally think we should just keep the name box for names. Narration, Speaking to, Mimicing can be done in their speech box and formatted like stage direcrtions/character sounds.

3. Scene cuts get their own box, without a name. I don't know about no "cut to"s, it kind of helps the sentences. "Cut to outside veiw of Mystery Shack" versus "Outside veiw of Mystery Shack". The latter sounds a little confusing. Commercials breaks are fine without them though, I agree

4. Links should be on the objects/persons very first naming, including in the name box. This includes nicknames, if it's mentioned first (e.g. You want cheese on the hun?)