Column conventions

The following are a list of wiki-wide conventions for how to fill in cells that are under certain columns, in cases where tables are used to comparison fictional works.

In addition to these conventions, each individual comparison may have its own extra conventions, especially for columns that are not seen in any other tables on the wiki.

When there are no stated conventions for a column anywhere, it is assumed that the precedent of other cells in that column of the table is sufficiently clear.

Fetishes
Contains a list of fetishes that must already exist in the fetish glossary. This is intended as a broad wiki-wide standard. However, an individual comparison page may adopt a different standard; if so, it will be noted in the guidelines section of that page.

For the added convenience of increased visibility, fetishes which are known to be present in five or more distinct sexual interactions within a work may be underlined.

If a fetish is not represented through an indicative visual aid, and is thus only conveyed with text, it should be italicized. Text-heavy works with few images may have a large number of italicized fetishes.

Ideally, they should be roughly ordered from most frequent to least frequent. At the very least, underlined fetishes should lead the list and italicized ones should end it.

Screenshots
Whenever possible, these should be uploaded in the native resolution of the original work, not stretched to full screen or by DPI scaling.

Due to layout considerations, a default maximum of 5 screenshots are permitted per work.

Themes
Contains a list of themes that must already exist in the theme glossary. This is intended as a broad wiki-wide standard. However, an individual comparison page may adopt a different standard; if so, it will be noted in the guidelines section of that page.

Translator
Contains a list of persons and/or companies.

If a translator's name is italicized, that means they are known to rely heavily on machine translation output or guesswork. Their translation will likely at least contain frequent minor mistakes.

If the translation lacks even consistency between sentences, contains uncomfortably poor English, or is outright challenging to understand (often due to insufficient editing), the parenthesized words "(Hard to Read)" should also be added after it. They should not be added in the case of only slightly bad grammar.

Also note that there are many cases where non-English works can have their text automatically and instantly "translated" using a service like Google Translate or DeepL. For example, Translator++ does this. However, unedited and untested machine translation output is not considered a valid translation on this wiki. These mostly unintelligible "translations" should not be confused with translations that just use machine translations as a reference.

A translator whose name is preceded by "[Official]" is someone who the developer acknowledges and supports. The word "[Official]" by itself indicates that the translator is in-house or unknown.