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The Gundam Manual of Style: A Guide to Uniformity

To ensure consistency across all articles on The Gundam, this manual outlines the preferred writing and formatting techniques, as well as style guidelines.

Article Layout

When creating an article, use the following layouts:

• Media: Television series, television specials, OVAs, movies, manga, novels, games, stage plays, and documentaries.
• Installments: Episodes, chapters, and other installments of a series.
• Music: Soundtracks, songs, and other music-related content.
• Entities: Mobile weapons, vehicles, characters, factions, locations, technologies, conflicts, and duels.

Article Titles

• Romanization/Translation: Use the most common official English name for an entity. If multiple sources provide different romanizations/translations, prefer the one used in the most recent animated source.
• Title Capitalization: Use title case for article titles, section titles, and category names, unless otherwise specified in official sources.
• Character Names: Use normal English format, not biographical format.
• Technical Names: Include both model number and code name for mobile weapons and mecha.

Perspective

• In-Universe: Write from an in-universe perspective, striving for verisimilitude. Use past tense for chronology and history sections, and past or present tense for other sections.
• Out-of-Universe: Write from a real-life perspective, acknowledging the subject’s fictional nature.

Class and Ship Names

• Specific Ships: Capitalize, italicize, and use the definite article. Refer to ships using neuter pronouns.
• Ship Class: Italicize class names only when a ship in the class bears the same name. Use a hyphen when the class is a modifier.
• All Others: Capitalize, un-italicize, and precede with the full technical designation. Refer to craft using neuter pronouns.

Quotations

• Use double quotation marks and place punctuation within the quotation.
• Use single quotation marks for quotations within quotations.
• State the speaker, audience, and situation when citing quotations.

Citations

• Use Extension:Cite and tags to generate numbered references.
• Organize references using tags, and define citations using templates such as Template:Cite book or Template:Cite web.

Footnotes

• Use the Footnotes section above the References section, and Extension:Cite .
• Use for footnotes.