The 100 Wiki:Style Guide

This Style Guide is an official guide on how all The 100 articles should appear. In order to not restrict editors to a specific style, this guide serves the purpose of maintaining consistency and clarity throughout the wiki.

In situations the Style Guide does not cover, please contact an Administrator for guidance. Issues or suggestions regarding the Style guide can be discussed in the Suggestions forum.

Please see the Layout Guide for the layouts used on articles.

General

 * This is an American television show so American English is used on this wiki (i.e. color instead of colour).
 * Correct spelling and grammar is to be used on the articles.
 * If you are unsure about spelling, type the word into Google search or use a word document that has spell check.
 * Commas and periods go inside quotation marks.
 * Do not type in all capitals.
 * Numbers under ten should be spelled out.
 * Dates are written in American format: Month Day, Year.

Perspective and Tense
All articles are written in third person.

Use present tense when referring to most articles on the wiki. Such articles include: Alive Character, Cast, Episode, and the Novel articles.
 * Example: "Clarke Griffin is a character featured in The 100. Clarke is the daughter of Doctor Abigail Griffin and Senior Environmental Engineer and Deputy Resource Officer Jake Griffin."

Use Past tense when referring to Deceased Character articles.
 * Example: "Jake Griffin was a character featured on The 100. He was the husband of Abigail Griffin, and the father of Clarke Griffin."

Special Formatting

 * Titles of pages should be in bold (i.e. Bellamy Blake).
 * Any episode title should be written in italics and in bold (i.e. The Calm).
 * The show name should be written in italics (i.e. The 100).
 * Trigedasleng words and phrases should always be italicized.
 * Title Case is used on page names and second-level subheadings (Early Life, Throughout the Series, etc...).
 * Proper nouns are capitalized (Sky People, Grounders, Mountain Men, Delinquents)
 * Grounders and delinquents may also be used as common nouns. When in doubt, if the word can be replaced by "American," then it should be capitalized.

Linking

 * Avoid Linking to the current page. Simply bold the name of the page.
 * To prevent over-linking, link something only once time per section of the article. A single thing may be linked 1 to 4 times per page. Captions on pictures are excluded.

Referencing

 * If an event occurs in the show, it does not need a reference.
 * Please try to properly cite references.
 * References must be from a valid source (not a personal blog on tumblr or a spoiler speculation site).