Fursuit Wiki:Manual of Style

The Manual of Style, often abbreviated MoS, is a style guide for Fursuit Wiki articles. This article contains basic principles. If the Manual of Style does not specify a preferred usage, discuss your issues on the talk page of this article.

Article titles
This guidance applies to the titles of Fursuit Wiki articles, not to the titles of external articles that are cited.
 * Article titles without a prefix should explain any terms used. Titles are generally nouns and should be short—preferably fewer than ten words.
 * Articles using the prefix Tutorial: should be used to explain creation, maintenance or usage of a fursuit. Because of this try to avoid using the word fursuit in the title (for example: Tutorial: Head instead of Tutorial:Fursuit Head).
 * Creator-specific Tutorials should be noted by the name of the creator in brackets, for example Tutorial: Body (TaniDaReal).


 * Articles using the prefix Fursuit_Wiki: should contain organisatory matter of the fursuit wiki itself.

First-person pronouns
Fursuit Wiki articles are not be based solely on one person's opinions or experiences; thus, I is never used, except when it appears in a quotation. If explaining the methods of a specific builder (also if you're writing about yourself) use their name instead.

Creator's Perspective
The basic idea of the fursuit wiki is Building by Consensus, meaning that there are troubles every fursuit builder has problems with. Often there's a very easy solution, that isn't as obvious as it should be. That's what the fursuit wiki is there for: Making solutions obvious. Articles that explain a creator-specific style should be viewed as examples, problems and difficulties should be discussed on a productive level.

Splitting the work
An article shouldn't explain a complete walkthrough, if it uses techniques explained elsewhere. Use a link to the article and explain the differences from your workflow.