Into the Spider-Verse Wiki:Guidelines

Guidelines for the wiki's articles. Feel free to message the active admin/s for questions or suggestions.

General

• This wiki is for the Spider-Verse franchise and thus its canon, which is different from the source materials (the Marvel comics), will be what is included on this wiki. While we can include comic book information in certain sections such as Trivia, and likely or obvious presumed information can be accepted especially when implied within the franchise or by people involved, it should not replace series canon and will be corrected once proven otherwise.
• Information on pages for in-universe elements such as characters, locations, objects, etc., should be as summarized or concise as possible, without leaving the necessary details out. Minute details of a certain scene should be placed on the movie article's Plot section instead. The goal is not to transcribe all the events of the film; rather it is to condense the information into a readable format.
• Accordingly, the information detailed on a page should be focused on the topic of the page; related elements (i.e. events that involve another character) mentioned in the article should not be thoroughly explained, especially if it has its own page.
• Avoid creating unnecessary, especially duplicate, categories. When in doubt, see the existing Categories or look at the main characters' categories for a guide.
• When it comes to adding characters from non Spider-Verse sources (The Raimi Trilogy, MCU, Spectacular Spider-Man, etc.), characters should only be added if they are either actually mentioned in the film or seen in some way shape or form. An example of this would be the iteration of Spider-Man played by Tobey Maguire which is shown on screen during the canon events sequence in Across the Spider-Verse.

Naming

The naming format for articles are as follows:

• Alias: Character article names will be their actual names instead of their aliases, unless their names are not explicitly known within the Into the Spider-Verse franchise (examples: Scorpion and Tombstone). However, you should still put your aliases as the title of your info box. (For example, Peter Porker goes by the alias Spider-Ham, so his infobox title for him is Spider-Ham instead of Peter Porker, even though the page name is Peter Porker.)
• Character Name:
  • If the name is explicitly stated in the film(s).
  • If the name is well-known or much associated with the character. However, because in some cases this can be changed (as is the case with Olivia Octavius), this is subject to change and will be edited once confirmed within or by people associated to the franchise (The same thing applied with the full name of the characters).
  • If no other version of the character is known or has been mentioned or introduced — or if the other mentioned versions do not have enough information for them and thus do not have separate article/s, the character will not need to have their dimension included in the article name.
• Character Name (Earth-#): If other version/s of a character of the same name has already been introduced or mentioned, the article name will need to include their known dimension (if possible).
  • In this case, the article with the page name that has no designated dimension (Character Name) will either be used to:
    • redirect to the more popular or heavily-featured version of the character, or
    • have a disambiguation page that will lead to the other version of the characters.

Styling

• American English spelling, grammar, punctuation, and word usage will be the standard on this wiki's official content.
• Wiki articles that describe elements within the franchise (characters, locations, events, objects, etc.) must be told in in-universe perspective and in chronological order of events.
  • This simply means that it will be written as if the author existed as an observer within the Spider-Verse as though they are real (i.e. you shouldn't say "this character" or "the creator of the movie said this was to show his character development" and such).
  • The only exception to these in franchise element articles are infoboxes and the "Trivia" and/or "Behind the scenes" sections.
• Articles with topics that are not found within the series will be wholly out-of-universe, or real-world; this is the opposite of in-universe in the sense that articles are written from "our" perspective, and there is acknowledgment that the subject is fictional. This includes articles on the films, people (actors and crew members), etc..
• Movie titles, and other titles from the real world such as books or TV series, should be italicized in articles.
• The tense varies in the in-universe articles, such as articles of characters, locations, events and objects.
  • Events that occurred in the past should be in past tense, such as in sections like a character's Biography, or an item, location, or event's History.
  • For details which are current or a consistent description of the topic, such as Relationships, Personality, etc. for living characters, use present tense.
  • For deceased characters, most of the page, if not the whole thing, will be in past tense.
  • For recaps in movie articles, present tense (literary present) should be used.
• Though it is expected that certain words (characters, etc.) will be found multiple times in articles, we should not link all instances of these to its respective articles. This is because spamming too many wiki links makes articles difficult to read. Linking should be limited to:
  1. the infobox
  2. the first occurrence of the word/s in each article
  3. linking to the page again if the first mention and link is under a different term or alias, and
  4. at least one scroll/page/window's distance from the previous link (in its first instance under the section that's around a page or scroll down).