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The following encompasses Holby Wiki's user conduct policies and editing guidelines. In the absence of a large community on the wiki, these policies have been created by Lythronax — Holby Wiki's sole administrator and moderator from March 2020 to January 2025 — to keep the site running smoothly. These policies are open for discussion and possible amendments; users may voice any issues they have with any current local policy on the Discussions board or to an active moderator. However, you must adhere to current policy until it is changed.

As this policy is constructed, sections about certain topics may be empty. In the meantime, you can contact a moderator for assistance. These conversations may be used as a basis for future policy and guidelines.

Policies

General conduct

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All users must follow the user conduct policies laid out in the "User Conduct" section of FANDOM's Terms of Use. The following is a summation of the wiki's view on acceptable user conduct.

  • Be civil. Personal attacks are totally unacceptable and will be met with a block.
    • As an extension, deliberately misgendering users and dismissing their expressed preferences regarding their identity will be met with an automatic block. Your personal convictions are not an excuse.
  • Treat others with respect. You are not above any of your fellow editors, so don't belittle them when they bring something to the table that you disagree with. After all, a fundamental part of building a successful wiki is cooperation.
  • Make constructive edits. It is obvious when you're just trying to jump up the leaderboard. Vandalism, persistent page blanking[1], plagiarism[2] and other bad-faith edits will be met with a block.
  • Please stick to one account. Unless you are operating an administration-sanctioned bot, there is absolutely no reason for you to edit the wiki with more than one account. Not only do they clog up the leaderboard, they also have the potential to be used to evade blocks.

Editing

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FANDOM offers a number of interfaces for editing articles. One of these interfaces is a visual editor that renders the underlying source code on the fly to reflect the changes being made. The others are variations of a source editor that facilitates editing with wikitext and HTML.

We encourage but don't require the use of the source editors. Source editing provides greater control over the edits you make, but most edits will realistically just be changes to the main article body. The visual editor becomes problematic, however, when it is used to add multi-parameter templates such as infoboxes to articles; the editor compiles the transclusion (calling of the template) without any kind of white space padding (basically additional spaces to align the parameters in source). The visual editor also has a tendency to output empty fields if they have been interacted with by the editor. These quirks, in most cases, have no effect on the appearance of the article, but they do make it harder for source editors to understand the code and may also impede automated edits that rely on consistent markup formatting.

These issues may be rectified in the future either by a software update on FANDOM's end or an automated solution on ours, but for now, we recommend and would greatly appreciate familiarising yourself with source editing.

Spoilers

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Spoilers refer to details from episodes that have not been broadcast yet. Spoilers can be included in out-of-universe articles and sections, but they must be accompanied by a {{spoiler}} transclusion at the top of the article. They should not be included in in-universe articles or sections (e.g. character articles).

Editing guidelines

General points

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  • All content must be written from a neutral point of view.
  • Characters should generally be referred to by their first name or nickname. If a character is generally referred to by their surname (e.g. Henrik Hanssen), you should stick to one style of address per article.
  • When writing about characters who have chosen their own names, usage of previous names or deadnames should be avoided as per FANDOM's Gender Identity Guidelines. This includes stating them in biographies and episode synopses. In the exceptionally rare circumstances where writing something like "a different name" is insufficient, informed community consensus must be sought before inclusion.

References

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Episode citations

Episode citations should be formatted like so:

Multiple episodes from the same show should be separated by commas; different shows should be separated by semi-colons.

We strongly recommend the use of {{ref}} which automatically generates episode citations in the format outlined above. Make sure to read the documentation to understand its functionality.

Other citations

Citing any other source (official BBC character biographies, news articles, social media posts, etc.) should be done using ref tags. More information on how to create standard citations can be found at help:cite.

Templates exist for citing websites and other media. They should be used within ref tags.

These kinds of citations are automatically listed at the bottom of articles by MediaWiki's software, but we require the use of {{reflist}} for its ease of use and modification. For example, when a list of references has become cumbersomely long, {{reflist|2}} renders the list as two columns.

Perspective

In-universe

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Articles about aspects of the Holby universe (e.g. people, places, events, medical procedures, objects, etc.) must be written from an in-universe perspective. What this basically means that if you are adding new content to Dylan Keogh's article, for example, you have to write as if he is a real person.

  • In situations where you would usually reference episode numbers or titles, in-universe dates or adverbial phrases of time are preferred. If the events of episodes are hard to place temporally, simply organising content in chronological order should suffice.
  • If you come across two pieces of conflicting information, please refer to our Dealing with retcons page.

Out-of-universe

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Articles about aspects of the production of Casualty, Holby City, etc. must be written from an out-of-universe perspective.

Neutrality

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All written content should adopt a neutral point of view. This means that you cannot give value judgements to the subject(s) of any piece of writing on the wiki's content namespaces.

In the context of in-universe articles, this includes avoiding language that conveys any form of opinion, irrespective of the intent of the narratives of the media the subject derives from. For example, as much as we are meant to root for Robyn Miller's survival in "The Straw", you cannot say that she "unfortunately" dies. You can quote Xavier Duval calling Cameron Dunn a "sad, sorry little incel", but you yourself cannot call Cameron that.[3]

Article layouts

Character articles

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  • With respect to the titling of character articles:
    • Articles about characters currently appearing in Casualty or Holby City must use the character's current name as it is formatted in the credits.
    • Articles about past characters should use their most frequently used name, unless that name is a deadname.
    • For characters with nicknames, double quotation marks (") should be used.
  • An infobox (see Template:Character Infobox for documentation) should be included with all of the necessary fields filled.
    • With the infobox image, promotional images take priority.
    • For current characters, the image used should be as recent as possible. However, if a promotional image exists, that should still take priority.
    • For past characters (including the final line-up of Holby City characters), a greater emphasis should be placed on choosing an image that both looks good and best reflects the character.
  • An introduction stating the character's dates of birth and date (if known), occupation (if known) and relation to Holby City Hospital (if known) should be written. Generally, a brief overview of the character's history (see Alicia Munroe) would be a worthwhile inclusion, but it is not required, especially if the article is incomplete.
  • A section called Biography should be included which details the character's known history. This section should contain multiple sub-sections for each significant point in that character's life.
  • A Personality section can be included which describes their personality and their development as a character. The latter is incredibly important; everything should be chronicled, and nothing should be overwritten. Its content should be supported with citations.
  • A Trivia section can be included with bullet-pointed tidbits about a character that are interesting but not significant enough for a mention in their biography.
  • The Behind the scenes section should include information about the character's conception, casting and their appearances.
  • The article's categorisation formatting should be adjusted if necessary. This can be done via {{DEFAULTSORT: ... }} or the {{NameSort}} template.
  • A character article must contain the relevant navboxes and categories at the bottom.
Subpages

As many characters have appeared in so many episodes that their articles would be cumbersomely large, sections such as Relationships, Quotes and Appearances must be given their own subpages.

  • The Relationships page should detail every significant relationship the article's subject has been involved in. This includes friendships, romantic relationships, familial relationships and working relationships.
  • The Appearances page lists all of the subject's appearances in episodes, books, etc.

Location articles

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Location articles are about places that exist within the Holby universe and therefore should be written from an in-universe perspective. Most locations featured in Casualty, Holby City and HolbyBlue often only appear once and will not contain much content. With articles about more prevalent locations, such as Holby City Hospital, Emergency department, and Holby and all of its constituent areas, these can be written in far greater detail and cover its history, features, residents, etc. Large location articles will often be accompanied by its own respective navbox (see {{Farmead}}).

Event articles

Event articles are about significant events (e.g. disasters, attacks, festivals, etc.) that have occurred in the Holby universe and should be written from an in-universe perspective. These should be detailed and include everything about the event (background, timeline (if possible), aftermath, etc.).

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Episode articles

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  • Episode articles should be written from an out-of-universe perspective.
  • There are discerpancies with the titling of certain Casualty episodes between the episodes themselves and the official website. For example, episode 618 of Casualty is titled "Thicker than Water" on-screen, whereas it is listed as "To Serve and Protect" on the website. In such cases, the on-screen title takes priority.
  • Every word in the title, barring articles and prepositions (this does not include prepositions used within verbal phrases), should be written in upper case.
  • There are times where episode articles require disambiguation:
    • If there is one episode of Casualty titled "X", and one episode of Holby City titled "X", their articles should be titled "X (Casualty)" and "X (Holby City)" respectively.
    • If there are two episodes of Casualty titled "X" in series 22 and 33 respectively, and one episode of Holby City titled "X", these articles should be titled "X (series 22)", "X (series 33)" and "X (Holby City)" respectively.
    • If there are multiple episodes of Casualty titled "X", and multiple episodes of Holby City titled "X", each article should be disambiguated by series. In the event of a clash (namely, there are two episodes in series 4 of Holby City titled "Ghosts"), you should disambiguate by writer.
  • An infobox (see Template:Casualty Episode Infobox, Template:Holby City Episode Infobox, Template:Casualty@Holby City Episode Infobox and Template:HolbyBlue Episode Infobox for documentation) should be included with all of the necessary fields filled.
  • An introduction detailing the episode's overall and series numbers, writer(s) and director(s) should be included. If any other significant information exists, it should be included as a short summary.
  • An episode article should contain either a Synopsis or Plot section. A synopsis is an abridged description of the episode's plot that does not necessarily need to be written in chronological order; a plot is a detailed description of the episode's events in chronological order.
    • At the point of the article's creation, a cited official synopsis written by the BBC is acceptable, but all episode articles should eventually sport bespoke plot descriptions.
    • The length of a synopsis does not matter; the main objective when writing a synopsis should be to capture all of the most important plot threads. Casualty and Holby City episodes typically consist of several plots running in parallel, so it is acceptable to structure a synopsis as three or four paragraphs for each plot. For large ensemble episodes where individual plots intertwine, a full plot description may be more appropriate.
    • A full plot description details each scene in the episode in order. Each scene should be separated into its own paragraph.
  • A Cast section should list all of the cast members of the episode. If the episode has not aired yet, and its complete cast list is unknown, the section should be titled Confirmed cast. Uncredited cast should be listed under an Uncredited subsection.
  • A Production section should detail aspects of the episode's production.
  • If required, a References section should be included.
  • An External links section should include all pertinent links (e.g. a link to the episode's page on the show's official website).
  • The navbox for the series the episode belongs to should be included at the bottom of the article.

Notes

  1. ↑ Blanking a page is an easy mistake to make, so a one-off case may be met with a revert and a brief reminder from a moderator.
  2. ↑ Copying content from resources such as holby.tv and Wikipedia is forbidden and will be met with an immediate ban. Using synopses from the BBC is permissible.
  3. ↑ Put simply, this refers to things such as using vocabulary that suggests that a character is evil or that a character should be supported. Content written about storylines that are intentionally ambiguous, such as Alicia Munroe's rape storyline in 2018, should be informed by context clues and commentary from cast, crew and promotional material (i.e. Alicia did withdraw consent and was raped).
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