Welcome to WikiProject Men in Black. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Men in Black and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please
join the project, inquire on the
talk page and see the
to-do list below.
Always consider notability (importance to a general audience) when editing not only Men in Black-related articles, but Wikipedia in general. Wikipedia is a general interest encyclopedia, not an in-depth guide to everything related to Men in Black. That is the role of
in Black Wiki. For detailed information on notability, please see
Wikipedia:Notability (fiction).
Characters, terms, and other topics that do not merit their own article (or any chance of expansion with ENCYCLOPEDIC material) should be merged into their respective
lists.
Likewise, if a topic has enough encyclopedic information to merit multiple sections and five or more paragraphs, it is generally safe to give it its own article.
All movies, series, and albums may be given their own articles.
There are fine lines between splitting and merging and notability, so there may always be disputes. Please be civil and make sure your argument covers all Wikipedia and Manual of Style rules.
People and characters, such as
Lowell Cunningham and
Agent K, should not be italicised except for emphasis.
Song titles should be placed in "double quotes" (I.E. "M.I.B. Main Theme").
Italics may also be used for emphasis.
Bolding
The first mention of the article or list entry's subject should always be bolded. (If the term is also the title of a work, its first mention should be bolded and italicized; subsequent mentions should be italicized, as noted above.)
In rare cases, minor topics may feature bold headings in lieu of subheaders.
Abbreviations
Generally, all abbreviations and shorthand writing should be avoided.
When addressing a game, book, console, term, movie, etc., do not abbreviate (for example, type Men in Black 3 instead of MIB3; Men in Black: Alien Attack should not be abbreviated MIB:AA).
Wikilinking
A
wikilink should only be used at the first mention, unless it is a template.
In a list, major characters and terms may be wikilinked multiple times if necessary.
Do not wikilink non-Men in Black related words unless they are not extremely common (e.g. do not wikilink
memory or
tool, but do wikilink
Neuralyzer).
Open tasks
Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
Jdcollins13 (
talk·contribs) (I am interested in improving graphics for all Men in Black articles) 18:58, 24 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Godzilladude123 (
talk·contribs) (The franchise is good, i think it needs a Project like any other sci-fis like Star Wars and Star Trek)
Please feel free to list your new Men in Black-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the
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