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openSome questions about formatting
- Should punctuation be inside or outside wicks and spoiler tags?
- Should a folder be called "Anime & Manga" or "Anime and Manga"?
- What decides when "AC" headings (not sure what AC means) vs normal folders are used?
- Should laconic pages say "Visit unabridged version HERE" or "Visit the unabridged version HERE"?
I can answer the AC question with...page length, usually. Consensus is that either style can be used, but that folders are encouraged for longer pages.
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- I treat spoiler tags like quotation marks — which is itself controversial, but for me it means include the punctuation if and only if it's part of the thing being (spoilered|quoted).
- I would title it "Anime and Manga", but I'm not sure it's important.
- There's a vague idea that AC (short for "asscaps", for some reason) headers are for shorter pages and folders are for longer ones, but I'm unclear as to where the dividing line is.
- I don't think it matters. I don't even think I've been consistent with that just with myself, to be honest.
What the heck is “asscaps” supposed to mean?
^^ This is what asscaps are. You've seen them. They're just stuck with a silly name.
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If spoiler tags cut off the end of a sentence and there's another, unspoiled sentence after it, I think it looks much better to leave the end punctuation of the first sentence outside of the spoiler tags. e.g.
- Alice turns out to be Bob's long-lost cousin. Everyone is shocked at this.
- Alice turns out to be Bob's long-lost cousin. Everyone is shocked at this.
If there's nothing after the spoiler tag... I guess it depends how long the spoilered section is and whether there's multiple sentences in it. Something like the above example minus the second sentence, I could go either way on whether the period goes inside or outside the tag. But for something like
- Alice turns out to be the alien overlord stealing people's brains. Her sabotage of the science fair and theft of Donny's bike were means to this end. By destroying all the baking-soda-and-vinegar volcanoes, she ensured that no one would have the tools to stop her. The bike was to get her to the school gymnasium and back.
I think AC stands for All Caps. But actually they're small caps
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Ok thanks for the responses everyone, everything that's been said so far makes sense. At least with the ones where it's a choice between two phrases, I've been doing it where I look up "site:tvtropes.org [phrase]" for both and whichever has more results is the one I use.
Edited by Troper48
I mean, half of the time the unabridged version thing is made into a gag anyway, so I don't think it matters at all.
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That's fair. Also another thing that I wonder about is if "season" is capitalized.
