Narutopedia:Manual of Style

This is the Narutopedia's Manual of Style, please do not do any reorganisation and cleanup of wikitext on the wiki unless you are fixing things to follow this style guideline.

Characters

 * (main) - The beginning section with general intro. This is the one without a section name.
 * Background - Historical and background information on the character.
 * Personality - Information on the character's personality.
 * Appearance - Physical description of the character.
 * Abilities - Information on the characters special abilities and techniques.
 * Jinchūriki Transformations
 * Kekkei Genkai - Specific Kekkei Genkai abilities.
 * Taijutsu
 * Ninjutsu
 * Genjutsu
 * Chakra
 * Nature Transformation
 * Other Abilities
 * Other info - Things like Naruto's history with the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox should be placed in this area. Or perhaps made as a subsection of an appropriate section.
 * Part in the Story - Section container, the characters actions within the story would be here. If most or all of what happens here appears in the character's Background section, then this section or parts of it may not be needed.
 * Part I
 * Some arc
 * Interlude
 * (If applicable)
 * Part II
 * Some other arc
 * Blank Period
 * (If applicable)
 * Epilogue
 * (If applicable)
 * Other media - Showcases characters in non-canon stories.
 * In Other Media
 * Movies and Novels
 * List of Movies and Novels
 * OVAs
 * List of OVAs
 * Video Games
 * List of Video Games
 * Live Action
 * (If applicable)
 * Creation and Conception - Describes how Masashi Kishimoto came up with the character; may show rough drafts, etc. 
 * Trivia - Trivia items. Organised in list format using * at the start of the line (Stylistically a space after that * would be nice.) Please do not state the obvious ("X is the first Y to do Z." or "X is the only Y to do Z.").
 * Quotes - Character quotes. The character shouting out a Jutsu name shouldn't be considered as quote though. Organised in the same way as Trivia. If there are multiple language forms to a character quote, it should link to an article like Catchphrases and Verbal Tics.
 * References - ''Just the ==References== section with a and   are pointless, only   should be used.
 * This also applies to links written to denote a plural: don't write the link as ; instead use.
 * Don't bypass redirects using things like  make use of the redirect properly with.
 * Do not use level 5 headings in articles, as they cannot be edited without editing the previous heading and can't be distinguished as a heading at all.
 * When using galleries, include  in the parameters of  : this prevents Image policy violations by the addition of bad images.

Common improper style changes

 * Do not change "Pain" to "Pein", "Pain" is the correct name.
 * Do not change "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox" or "Nine Tails" to "Kyūbi."
 * Do not change "Hyūga," "Shippūden," or anything to a 'uu' such as "Hyuuga," or "Shippuuden."
 * Do not change "Anbu" to "ANBU" as it is not an acronym (暗部 is a normal, shortened version of 暗殺戦術特殊部隊).
 * Do not go adding last names to links unless you have a valid reason to do so (full character name hasn't been used earlier in the article). Full names should not be abused to bypass redirects.
 * Do not change page numbers in ref tags to have a leading zero. Going around the wiki and changing 3 to 03 despite most pages sticking to 3 doesn't improve the wiki at all and just adds pointless edits, just stick with 3.
 * For the Sage Mode and its techniques, we use "Sage" instead of "Hermit."
 * Do not make edits that do absolutely nothing to change the appearance of the page when it is rendered, such as adding or removing a space between paragraphs, adding underscores in spaces when including an image onto an article, or removing unused parameters from infobox templates. This does nothing except add pointless edit revisions to the page history and does not improve the wiki.
 * Do not replace words just because you don't know or understand their meaning. Such edits will be considered disruptive.