The Manual of Style is a style guide for articles on the ABS-CBN Wiki. It helpings editors produce articles with consistent, clear, and precise language, layout, and formatting. The goal is to create an encyclopedia that is easier and more intuitive to use. Consistency in style, wording and formatting promotes clarity and cohesion; this is especially important within an article and across related media.
Article titles[]
Avoid making articles with conjectural titles. Please make sure the article name for a subject is its official name. Similarly, please do not use nicknames or alternate names for an article's title.
For female personalities who are married, do not add their married surnames in article titles. For TV series whose original title is in Filipino and not English, the Filipino title is preferably used.
Headings[]
Headings should be in sentence case. This means not all the words should be capitalized, from the first word to the last word.
Images[]
- Images of title cards of programs should typically have no watermark. Those with the ABS-CBN logo (or that of any related channel, like Kapamilya Channel, or even Kapamilya Online Live) are also acceptable.
- Avoid using low-quality images in the infobox.
- Thumbnails shown in the article should generally be 250px.
- Images of people should typically be a screenshot from an ABS-CBN-related company, series, event, etc.
Links[]
- Any internal article should be linked in every mention in another article's infobox, once upon its first mention in another article's intro, and once upon its first mention in each of other articles' sub-sections.
- Do not link the article to its Wikipedia article in the "External links" section. You can link to the person's social media accounts.
Language and spelling[]
The ABS-CBN is an English-language wiki, and as such uses English language in its articles. Editors are expected to be competent in the English language.
English content should not be replaced with content in another language. Furthermore, new pages should not be created in non-English languages, except for titles of shows in Filipino language or its regional dialects (example: Bandila, FPJ's Batang Quiapo).
Date and time formatting[]
Read this article from Wikipedia for more on date and time formatting and standards. Below are excerpts from that article.
Acceptable date formats: The following date styles are acceptable in Wikipedia articles, subject to rules included thereafter:
Format Example Scope MMMM D, YYYY Full month name, space, numeric day, comma, space, full year
September 8, 2001 Everywhere D MMM YYYY Numeric day, space, short month name, space, full year
8 Sep 2001 This format is only in references, tables, lists or areas where conciseness is needed. MMM D, YYYY Short month name, space, numeric day, comma, space, full year
Sep 8, 2001 YYYY-MM-DD Four-digit year, hyphen, two-digit month, hyphen, two-digit day
2001-09-08
Unacceptable date formats: The following date styles are not acceptable on the ABS-CBN Wiki except in external titles and quotes:
- The ordinal suffixes, articles, or leading zeros (except for the YYYY-MM-DD format) are not used in the wiki. A comma is not inserted between the month and year, nor is a period inserted after the day (June 10, 1921); however, when using mdy format, a comma is required between the day and year. When a date in mdy format appears in the middle of text, include a comma after the year (The weather on September 11, 2001, was clear and warm). Type the full year string instead of using the apostrophe to abbreviate the first two digits of the year.
Incorrect Correct 9 June 2001 June 9, 2001 9th June the 9th of June 9. June
June 9 June 9th June 9 June, 2001 June 2001 9 June, 2001 09 June 2001
June 9, 2001 June 9 2001 June 09, 2001
June 9, 2001 '01 2001
- An exception to this guideline is when a specific style of a date achieves notability within a culture, such as the Fourth of July (does not adhere to ordinal nor spelled out guideline, yet is acceptable).
- Do not use year-final numerical date formats (DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY), as they are ambiguous: "03/04/2005" could refer to 3 April or to March 4. For consistency, do not use such formats even if the day number is greater than 12.
- Do not use customized variations of the YYYY-MM-DD format. E.g., do not replace hyphen characters ("-") with any other character; do not change the order of year, month, or day. Use leading zeros for days or months when needed to make these fields two digits.
- Yearless dates (March 5) are inappropriate unless the year is obvious from the context. There is no such ambiguity with recurring dates, such as January 1 is New Year's Day.
- Do not use Roman numerals, such as "MMXII" for "2012", to denote years.