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This page outlines the appropriate guidelines for pages related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Lemony Snicket. These guidelines are here merely to serve as a guide to the WikiProject, so there is flexibility while writing articles. If you would like to create a page not within these guidelines, please begin a discussion on this page's talk page.

Characters

Individual Pages

For a character to receive an individual page, he or she must have a prominent appearing role in 2 or more books. Exceptions include Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire / Beatrice Baudelaire as they don't appear in the series but still are alluded to or spoken about in every book.

Character List Pages

For those characters who do not meet the criteria for an individual page, they should be placed into one of the following groups:

• Guardians - characters who are official or unofficial guardians of the Baudelaires, listed under the appropriate book heading
• Castaways - characters living on Olaf-Land in The End
• Count Olaf's associates - characters are part of Count Olaf's theatre troupe or otherwise work with Count Olaf
• List of Prufrock Preparatory School Staff - characters who worked at Prufrock Preparatory School

If a character, especially a very minor character, does not fit into any of the above groups, they should be put into List of minor characters in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Locations

All locations should be divided into one of the following groups:

• Towns
• Geographic locations
• Houses
• Boats/Submarines
• Businesses

Books

All books receive their own article. The only exception to this rule is special edition prints of books. Special editions should be listed in the main book page.

Other Notes

• If you feel a subject not covered in the above topics deserves an article, begin a discussion on the project talk page.

• On the pages, don't call the series 'fictional'. Fictional and fiction mean different things:

If I said: A Series of Unfortunate Events is a fictional book series.

It would mean that the book series does not exist.

If I said: A Series of Unfortunate Events is a fiction book series.

It would mean that the events taking place in that series do not exist.

Simply say that its a children's book series by Lemony Snicket.

• For writing about fiction generally, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction).