Sonic News Network:Style/Real-world people

This is a set of general guidelines to follow when creating and editing mainspace articles concerning a person or staff member related to the Sonic the Hedgehog series franchise. Although this is an official guide, editors are encouraged to stray from them if it will improve the overall quality of the article.

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 * Yellow boxes are general guidelines meant to pertain to the main text on the page.
 * Green boxes are guidelines for headers.
 * Red boxes are guidelines for anything else.

Add a quote here. Preferably a quote said by the person or another person that summarizes the subject's experience, personality, viewpoints, history or significance of their role to the franchise.

The "Person" template is to be inserted here. Information in regards to the Person are to be filled as much as possible including, but not limited to; Gender, Birthplace, Birthdate, Company or Companies the person has worked for, which must include recent companies and companies the person is still working at. Companies which are not affiliates or subsidiaries of Sega which are older than 20 years are to not be included. Image of the character is to be placed at the top, preferably no larger than 300x300 pixels.

This is the summary. The purpose of the summary is the summarize the person, their brief history and significance to the franchise, preferably in a single paragraph. This includes a brief run-down of the person's job or task

History
This is to contain a detailed history of the person which should include past projects, past companies and other works on external media leading up to their work on the franchise. It can also contain details on what gained their interest to work for, or the nature of the reason behind them choosing or being hired for the task.

Recent Works
This is to contain a detailed summary of the person's current or most recent tasks, works and services to the franchise such as any games, books, shows, movies or music they have contributed to, including the date on which they began work or contribution to said project(s). It should be summarised and detailed as to what exactly they did or accomplished to contribute to their tasks

Credits
A list of worked credited solely to them or works they have contributed to can be placed here. This should be ranked from oldest to newest. This is to contain official franchise works only and no third-party or unsolicited fan works of their past unless it has a significant relation to the official franchise.

Gallery
This section is for images of the person. It is recommended to be limited to insertion of significant images in relation to the person. Such can include portraits of the person, an image of them working on a project (franchise or otherwise), an snap-shot of them at an interview or with other persons of significance such as other staff members with relations to the franchise. It can also include appearances of them at official public events related to the franchise.

Trivia
The Trivia section is about small pieces of information about the person that do not fit in any of the sections above. Here, the editor must make a list of these little-known facts by using bullet points (*), where each piece of information being given its own paragraph. Be careful of what you list, however, as it is required that the Trivia is informative, not lengthy and pointless.