Media page rules

This page is a semi-loose guide for posting media to the wiki. Please follow these rules posted below if you want your submissions to kept/ left alone.

Overall page format
A page should have at least the following described sections/ headings and categories, and respective data to be added. Pages with no data or substantially missing sources/ improper format will be deleted or remade.

Page requirements
These should be used on all pages, in this order:

The first three bullets list headings, while the last one is for categories.
 * Cast (heading)
 * Staff (heading)
 * Sources (heading)
 * Categories

Cast lists
Actors are listed by role not by character, and each table should be listed as such. This is due to different versions of a single character often being played by other actors.

If multiple versions of a role share the same prominence, label each of them; if one role version is more prominent than any of the rest, do not label that one. Role names should always be in the latin alphabet or whatever writing system the site language is using. Parentheses can be used next to a role name to indicate a native script, but it's not necessary and only acceptable for proper nouns.

Major and minor casts
Major cast tables should list roles by prominence. If there are many major roles in a given media work, one should also use single merged-row headers to divide lead roles (occurring in majority of episodes) and recurring roles (occurring in a minority of episodes, but more than a single arc or episode). If prominence changes from lead to recurring or vice versa, display the role in both sections; but italicize the actor/ role names in the section they were first relevant to.

Minor cast tables should come after major cast tables. They should contain up to 26 episodes worth of roles, with more episodes calling for more tables. Always put a header cell column before the role column labelled "#" at the top (indicating episode number), with the column cells merged. Minor cast tables should always be collapsed initially.

Extras
Extras belong to their own separate sort of table, and are always put last in the table order. The table for extras should always be collapsed initially and contain multiple versions (dubs/ recordings) listed in a header cell column. The table should be sortable, with no merged cells.

Staff lists
UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Categories
The following category types should be used on all pages, in this order. Every single page on the site requires at least one category, and media work pages are no exception.


 * Page circumstances* (only addable by site staff)
 * Media work circumstances*
 * Franchise*
 * Date-original language-medium
 * Date-subformats-medium
 * Dubs*

Bullets marked with an asterisk describe categories that aren't possible to add to all pages, but are needed for pages where they can be.

More information can be added for new dubs, but not new distributions or re-releases.

Category listing blueprint:

[YEAR LANGUAGE SUBFORMAT MEDIUMs [episodes(/segments)]]

--look at format for A Thousand & One Nights's categories for standalone media

Remove exact release dates, just use both end and start for the same year

--look at format for Liquid Television's categories for episodic/segmented media

1 dub [(YEAR) LANGUAGE CIRCUMSTANCE dubs]

multiple dubs [(AMOUNT) LANGUAGE dubs (YEAR (CIRCUMSTANCE)/ (YEAR CIRCUMSTANCE)]