Plants vs. Zombies Wiki:Manual of Style

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This Manual of Style outlines a standard of clean, consistent formatting for articles on this wiki. The formatting described here is a guideline and can be overridden where circumstances warrant it. These guidelines will never be unerringly perfect for every situation. However, please try your best to keep to the advice outlined in this article so others may use your edits as an example when creating and editing their own articles.

These guidelines are a summary of the most important guidelines for this wiki, but a more expansive set of style guidelines can be found on Wikipedia at the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Article/Category rules
For small pages:
 * Use proper grammar.
 * In articles, only use facts, not opinions.
 * If you're making a poll, please make it in Plants vs. Zombies Wiki:Polls first, good polls will be moved to Plants vs. Zombies Wiki mainspaces. Be sure to check your grammar THRICE, by going to Source mode to see if there are any errors, and most browsers have a spelling-check function. Fix it by checking dictionaries and Google for the correct spelling, since polls' votes are removed after an edit.
 * Don't abbreviate whenever possible. Use the full name to prevent confusion.
 * No informal terms (except in strategies).
 * Use proper names:
 * Capitalize the first letter (Peashooter, Squash, etc).
 * For words with a hyphen, the first letter behind it must not be capitalized (Puff-shroom, Tall-nut, Giga-gargantuar, etc). Exceptions are Jack-in-the-Box Zombie, Jack-in-the-Box and Wall-Not Attack.
 * Do not randomly capitalize letters and add hyphens to names (no Pea-Shooter, Cherry-Bomb, etc).
 * Do not shorten names; it's only allowed in blogs, comments, talks, etc, not on articles (no "Pole Vaulters" and "Ladders", etc).
 * Use "zombie" for zombies in general or the regular zombie. However, use "Zombie" for any other zombies.
 * Do not use first-person pronouns like "I", "me" and "mine" (obviously except for the Potato Mine).
 * There's no need for multiple hyperlinks of the same thing on a single section.
 * Use the third person on articles, and refer to the player with gender-neutral phrases.
 * Strategies can use either the first or second person.
 * Use English words if the number is zero to ten.
 * If the number is 11 or above, numbers in infoboxes or tables, you can use digit or number.
 * For Plants and Zombies Overview section and Level X, please use digits for all numbers.
 * Use all English numbers or digits for the same section (no three Peashooters and 2 Sunflowers).
 * Please italicize all games (such as Plants vs. Zombies and Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time). This is proper grammar.
 * However, don't italicize XXX version, which is incorrect and unneeded.
 * All plants are gender-neutral, and for that reason, do not call a plant or zombie as "him", "her," or other gender-related pronouns.
 * Please avoid sentence fragments or run-on sentences ("The Peashooter. Shoots peas." is a sentence fragment, and "The Peashooter shoots peas peas can kill a regular zombie in ten hits." is a run-on sentence. Saying instead "The Peashooter shoots peas. Peas can kill a regular zombie in ten hits." is a valid sentence).
 * Plants vs. Zombies is an American game, so you must use American language in articles (except strategies). Whereas for British people or people who speak British, you would spell words like "colour" and "favourite" as "color" and "favorite."
 * Always talk in the third person on articles, except for strategies. Refer to the player as "they," "their," or "them" when needed.
 * You only can make a gallery for your photos if there are two or more.
 * Do not comment nonsense on pages like "First comment!".
 * Use the layout below (small changes can be made, such as header names, orders, etc) for strategies on Strategy sub-articles.

Plants needed

 * list of plants*

Instructions

 * instructions*

For larger pages, like the Last Stand's strategies page:

Plants needed

 * list of plants*

Instructions

 * instructions*

Note: There can be a "Notes" part for any strategies where comments on the strategies or suggestions can be made to improve the strategy or note flaws.