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 This '''Manual of Style''' is a guide applicable to all {{SITENAME}} articles. It reflects {{SITENAME}}'s standards, and is intended to help editors to produce articles with language, layout, and formatting that are consistent, clear, and precise. The goal of {{SITENAME}} is to make the whole encyclopedia easier, intuitive to use and the most definitive source for all ''[[Marathon]]'' information.
-== Style guide ==
-=== Writing tense ===
-Keep all articles in the past tense, new or old games. As details develop or things are retconned, we can add more detail later. Present tense and past perfect make reading things more confusing as live developments are going to be very common.
-Third Person Omniscient is the main perspective to keep. Objectivity is key, despite what terminals may read about a character's view on things, keep those views to the character's article or to the Quotes section.
-=== Sourcing ===
-Sources should be used as often as possible. Outside of plot synopsis, everything from AI roles to character origins should have a source. As Marathon tells its story in terminal format with wildly different interpretations, things need to be backed up with terminal entries. Also, make sure you understand the context of the terminal before sourcing.
-=== Theorycrafting ===
-Theorycrafting should be kept to a minimum. I know we all like Marathon, but the series' main appeal is piecing things together yourself and reaching your own conclusions. More ambiguous entries such as [[Kill Your Television (Level)|KYT]], [[Gherrit White]] and the [[Marathon: Infinity|Infinity]] timelines should remain objective as to what transpires directly from the text. The connections between them and how they fold into the larger narrative should be left as open as possible.
-=== References ===
-References should contain be written as: ''Game,'' Mission name, '''Terminal number'''
-With an embedded link to the corresponding terminal on the [[Marathon Story Page|Marathon story page]].
-If done properly, the reference would look like this:
-[[File:Reference template.png|frameless|358x358px]]
 == General ==