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==Canon==
Currently, the wiki treats everything in the comic as well as Xan's public statements on social media as equally canon. When I asked Xan on Discord whether citing her social media posts was appropriate, she said she didn't mind me citing them, but that some of the things she says outside of the comic are things she hasn't firmly decided on yet. In the future, I plan to [[Template:SemiCanon|implement a "semi-canon"]] template similar to [https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Template:Ambig the one on Zelda Wiki].▼
If Xan revises and republishes some pages of the comic, only the newest revision is considered canon. So far, this has only occured once: when Xan modified Chapter 4, Page 21 for the book release to remove [[Kyndley]]'s title. Hence, the title "[[Overseer]]" for Kyndley is no longer canon<ref>https://pandorastale.com/2020/03/18/chapter-4-page-21/</ref><ref>https://mastodon.lol/@comicsbyxan/109429358958569412</ref><ref>https://archive.today/d3nii</ref><ref>https://mastodon.lol/@comicsbyxan/109436552863220387</ref><ref>https://archive.today/Rx1U1</ref>.
===Social Media Posts===
▲Currently, the wiki treats everything in the comic as well as Xan's public statements on social media as equally canon. When I asked Xan on Discord whether citing her social media posts was appropriate, she said she didn't mind me citing them, but that some of the things she says outside of the comic are things she hasn't firmly decided on yet. In the future, I plan to [[Template:SemiCanon|implement a "semi-canon"]] template similar to [https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Template:Ambig the one on Zelda Wiki].
All cited social media posts should be archived. Social media posts in a format that cannot be archived, such as Discord messages or Mastodon direct messages, cannot be cited. All references to archive.is or archive.ph [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_archive.today#Archive.today_compared_to_.is,_.li,_.fo,_.ph,_.vn_and_.md should be changed to archive.today].
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#They are in the top <math>\lfloor\sqrt{\text{Total number of named non-metafictional characters}}\rfloor</math> named non-metafictional characters ranked by the number of chapters they appear in.
##In the case of a tie, more characters are included as major characters.
#Any character who would haven been a major character under condition (1) when there were fewer chapters.
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###In Chapter 1, there are only two or three named characters: Isabelle, Zero, and possibly Pandora (if you count her name on the title page even though she hasn't actually gotten a name yet). Hence they would qualify as major characters.
###By the end of Chapter 2, there are six named characters, five of whom appear in both Chapters 1 and 2: Pandora, Isabelle, Con, Ms. Fortuna, and Zero. Hence, those five would qualify as major characters under this rule.
###The same five characters go on to appear in every chapter of Book 1, maintaining a five way tie on first place while there are less than 36 named non-metafictional characters (20 named non-metafictional characters are in Book 1). Hence, they shut out any other characters from qualifying under this rule during Book 1.
###After Chapter 8, there were 21 named non-metafictional characters. Pandora and Isabelle had appeared in every chapter, while Con, Ms. Fortuna, and Zero were tied for 3rd place with 7 appearances each.
###After Chapter 9, there were 25 named non-metafictional characters. Pandora and Isabelle had appeared in every chapter, while Con, Ms. Fortuna, and Zero were tied for 3rd place with 8 appearances each.
###After Chapter 10, there were 34 named non-metafictional characters. Pandora and Isabelle had appeared in every chapter, while Con and Zero had 9 appearances each, and Veronica was in 5th place with 8 appearances.
###After Chapter 11, there were 35 named non-metafictional characters. Pandora and Isabelle had appeared in every chapter, Con had 10 appearances, while Ms. Fortuna and Zero were tied for fourth place with 9 appearances each.
#The semi-finalists of a once-per-book Pandora's Tale Character Tournament.
##Doctor Shah won the Book One Character Tournament and hence she qualifies as a major character. The other semi-finalists where Natalya and Hemmel, so they are also major characters.
##By the time we get to the Pandora's Tale Book Two Character tournament, I'll probably have either changed my mind about the qualification rules for being a major character, or given up on the wiki entirely. On the off chance I do neither of those things, the winner of the Book Two Character tournament will become a major character if they don't already qualify through number of appearances.
Putting it all together, the eight [[:Category:Major Characters|major characters]] are currently Pandora, Isabelle Monday, Con Yung, Hemmel, Natalya Ustrashkina, Noor Shah, Veronica Fortuna, and Zero Angiers.
===The "Relations" section===
Every major character article has a section detailing the character's relationships with every other major character. Characters in this section should be listed in a particular order: Pandora comes first, followed by Isabelle, followed by all other major characters in alphabetical order by first name.
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===Special Treatment for LGBTQIA Wikis===
There are two versions of the "LGBTQIA Wiki" that we could link to for references on orientation, both of which share a domain. One [[lgbta:LGBTA Wiki|is hosted by
Ordinarily, I would prefer the independent wikis over the MyWikis wiki. However, both LGBTQIA wikis have the same bureaucrat, and they say the
*If I want to link to an article related primarily to gender, I will use the Nonbinary Wiki.
*If I want to link to an article related primarily to orientation, or to a topic not covered by the Nonbinary Wiki, then I will link to whichever of the other two wikis covers the relevant information better.
*If the MyWikis wiki ever takes over the domain of the
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