Wikitroid:POV Policy

This page details the In-Universe policy as ratified by an RfC on 13 April 2009.

Point of View
With the exception of a few articles, all articles on Wikitroid are to be written in the in-universe point-of-view. That is, the article should treat the Metroid universe as if it were real, and the article should discuss its subject matter as if it was an actual historical event or actual person/place/etc. When writing in the in-universe perspective, think of yourself as a Galactic Federation archivist creating a database for others to access. For example, pronouns such as "I" and "you" are not to be used, as well as "the player" should not be used. "Samus," etc. should be used instead.

Guides
All guides, including but not limited to "battle guides," are forbidden on in-universe articles. We are not a game tutorial or walkthrough site. Guides should be re-written and integrated into the article's body itself. For example, detail the battle and how the battle is fought instead of listing how to complete the battle step-by-step.

Real-Life POV
There is an exception to the in-universe policy. Articles that discuss real world topics, for example, the games themselves (e.g., Metroid Prime 3: Corruption) or people (e.g., Gunpei Yokoi) should likewise be written in the real-life point-of-view. On an article using the real-life POV, one can use pronouns such as "the player," but still should not use pronouns such as "I" or "you." On these articles, everything that doesn't exist in real life (such as characters and places in the Metroid universe) should be discussed in the out-of-universe perspective, as if they don't really exist (which they don't). Articles in the real-life POV should be tagged at the beginning of the article (before any content) with. In addition, trivia sections and other sections which discuss the real-life aspects of an in-universe object can be in the real-life POV without being tagged with the  template.

Enforcement and Tagging
Articles or sections that should be in the in-universe perspective but are written in the out-of-universe (or real-live) perspective, or articles that contain guides (including, but not limited to, battle guides) should be tagged with a special cleanup tag,  (that's oou as in "out-of-universe"). Doing so automatically adds the tagged page to the categories Category:Articles in need of cleanup and Category:In-universe articles writtin in the out-of-universe perspective. It can be used in conjunction with the  template.