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Revision as of 11:16, 3 June 2021
This Policy is still under Construction This page presents an incomplete BTW policy. Until it is completed, it has not become official. Feel free to take part in the talk page. |
This page in a nutshell: BattleTech has its own specific format and style for many words found within its universe. |
- Note: This style guide details stylistic elements that all editors should incorporate to help present a uniform style for the BattleTechWiki articles. It was borrowed from a similar guide being built by Editor Mbear.
Article titles
- Article titles should be in the form of a singular noun, such as BattleMech.
BattleTech-specific cases
The following words always appear in the form shown below:
- AeroSpace Fighter
- BattleMech
- BattleTech
- DropPort
- DropShip
- JumpShip
- 'Mech
- MechWarrior
- OmniMech
- OmniFighter
- ProtoMech
- WarShip
This section is an adaptable part of the guide; as new terms are introduced—in a stylistic way—with new products, they will be added here.
Capitalization
- Standard grammatical rules should be followed with regards to capitalization. Should emphasis be needed, it should be given in the form of italics or boldface, not all caps.
- Correct - BattleMechs are not robots.
- Incorrect - BattleMechs are NOT robots.
- One notable exception: Sarna capitalizes the proper name of military operations.
- The families ruling the five Successor States should be referred to with capitals, i.e. House Davion, House Kurita, House Liao, House Marik, and House Steiner.
- Clan commands are always capitalized, such as with Point, Star, Nova, Trinary, Supernova, Cluster, Galaxy, and Touman. Clans do not have an "officer" or "enlisted" corps. They have trueborn and freeborn, and every rank is a regimented form of their "Warrior Corps". These include Point Commander, Star Commander, Star Captain, Star Colonel, and Khan, which are capitalized.
- "Clan" should be capitalized whenever referring to the descendants of Kerensky. Clan Jade Falcon. "I am a Clan warrior." The Northwind Highlanders also use the term "clan", of course, and should be capitalized only when used with a proper name: Clan McDougal. Yakuza clans are not capitalized excepted when used as part of a full name: the Nogachi Clan.
- Military commands are also capitalized:
- Correct - Twenty-first Galedon Regulars, Ninety-seventh Adder Sentinels, Seventh Deneb Light Cavalry
- Incorrect - Fifth sword of light, 8th orloff grenadiers
- The word "century" is not capitalized.
- Ex: The 20th century, the 31st century
English language
There are many different countries that speak and write in English, leading to different spellings of some words. Since BattleTech is created by an American company, it is most appropriate to write articles using American spelling and grammar. Editors who are familiar with other methods of spelling are not mandated to write articles in 'American' English since they are unfamiliar with it, but the article should be converted to American style by those that do.
Numbers
- Write out any number under 11.
- Ex: Three, Seven, Nine, 13, 15, 23
- Use commas to aid in understanding every three spaces.
- Ex: 2,983,802,928
- Use decimal points to indicate numbers smaller than one, not commas.
- Ex: 394.09