Manual of Style

This is the Daybreak Wiki's Manual of Style, intended to provide a set of guidelines on the wiki's style and formatting for contributors.

Guidelines
By and large, the Daybreak Wiki follows stylistic and formatting standards similar to 's where applicable, with minor differences.

Perspective
The in-universe articles of this wiki are generally presented from a third-person limited perspective; as a general rule, we know only what the UNSC and the Covenant know. The wiki itself is generally detached from any specific point of view, though there is an overall human bias in which names and terms take priority.

This also means that most information on the Forerunners and other ancient civilizations should be presented through that "modern" lens. If some piece of information is ambiguous, articles should reflect this. Information may be intentionally left vague for stylistic/tonal reasons, or because it has not yet been defined by the project's authors. For example, Daybreak's "canon" stance is that the Forerunners originated as an offshoot population of Homo sapiens displaced from Earth by a precursor civilization, but for the time being, this is only hinted at in mainline articles as it is not known to the UNSC or the Covenant.

There is no fully-defined "present day" for the wiki's POV, but it can be assumed to be around the 2620s, coinciding with the dating of Project Footprint mentioned in Not All Who Wander.

Note that while the above applies to the mainline articles, which are written in an in-universe style, out-of-universe guides (such as the Daybreak Reference Manual), project articles and footnotes may be more relaxed in the way they present information.

Originality
Avoid copying content from Halopedia or any other website, unless it's your own material (e.g. on Halo Fanon) or the author has given you permission to use it. Project Daybreak-related material is generally assumed to be free to be added to the wiki, but it is considered good practice to ask the original creator before significantly altering or expanding on an original subject.