Wikipedia:WikiProject Horror/Style Guidelines

The following is the style guidelines department of WikiProject Horror This department tries to help editors improve the quality of Wikipedia's articles within the fictional horror genre. For Wikipedia guidelines regarding how to write about fiction in general, see Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction). These are only guidelines and may be altered depending on current Wikipolicies and/or project participant consensus.

Naming conventions

 * For clarification in specific instances, please view:
 * for biography articles: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)
 * for film articles: Naming conventions (films)
 * for literary work articles: Naming conventions (books)


 * If an article already exists with the same name as the article that you are trying to write, create a disambiguation page and use a modifier in the title; e.g. Title (author), Title (director), Title (film), Title (franchise), Title (novel), Title (novella), Title (short story).
 * If an article already exists with the same title modifier as the article that you are trying to write, create a disambiguation page (if one doesn't already exist) and (in order of preference):
 * …use a name-based title modifier; e.g. Title (authorname novel).
 * …use a year-based title modifier; e.g. Title (year film), Title (year novel), Title (year novella), Title (year short story).
 * …use a genre-based title modifier; e.g. Title (genre director), Title (genre franchise).

Article construction

 * For information on what should be included in an article, please view:
 * for biography articles: Manual of Style (biographies)
 * for film articles: WikiProject Films/Style guidelines
 * for literary work articles: WikiProject Novels/Style guidelines