WHAT WE COVER

FILMS FIRST

This should be a database of Japanese Monster Films as its primarily focus and function and attention put towards that. Monster stats and EDF tech. should be complimentary to the film information, not vice-versa. There's enough that goes into a film to cover that we should really need to resort to stuff like monster stats, which are pretty easy filler, IMO. 

ALWAYS TRY TO PROVIDE FRESH CONTENT, EVEN WHEN IT'S ONLY MINOR

There's three films featuring the '68 Anguirus suit, but only two or three images of that design get floated around amongst basically any website cataloging this information. The Mosugoji design has an entire film featuring it very prominently, but everyone chooses to use more iconic shots of him coming out of the ground or knocking into the castle. These are stale images that are constantly circulated; lets avoid that as much as we possibly can. And the images should be all ours. Preferably screenshots from the best quality home video releases/transfers.

CHARACTER ARTICLES AND SYNOPSISES THAT UNBIASEDLY MENTION THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE PLOT

The characters that aren't 50-meter fire-breathers, (that is to say, the *shudder* humans) are almost never mentioned outside poorly written trivia and that one suicidal eye patch wearing scientist. We need articles for human characters, and well written ones at that. Their actors and their voice actors all need some biography as well.

ARTICLES SHOULD PUT EMPHASIZE ON WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS, NOT WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENS

Ah, continuity, the sweet honey of the garden variety fan. Please, no paragraphs that go out of their way to point out that something is different in between films, just because they can. Example: Godzilla was trapped in an avalanche on Kamiko Island in Godzilla Raids Again, but in King Kong vs. Godzilla, he emerges from an iceberg in the arctic ocean. You can point out all the discrepancies all you want, but that doesn't chance the fact that his location is now different. You might as well write a five page essay on why you think Godzilla's design changes which each installment with that attitude.

TRIVIA SHOULD BE SOMETHING LITTLE KNOWN, NOT INCREDIBLY OBVIOUSThe trivia in the trivia sections of articles need to be something that wouldn't be known to the fanbase at large or does not fit into the article. Stating something obvious like "Varan was one of the only monsters not to fight in DAM" or "Godzilla's Revenge has 90% stock footage" are things that incredibly obvious to the viewer and are a waste of space. In addition, made up facts or rumors without any direct source or citation will be deleted. 

HOW WE COVER IT

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE CITATION

I suggest we use MLA (Modern Language Association) style citations since this is the most commonly used style of citation within the liberal arts and humanities. More info here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

I would say that as a general rule with sources we should adhere to the following...

1) First and foremost any authoritative Japanese source is preferred over an English one. However English sources are good too since most of our readers probably aren't fluent in Japanese. Most of us aren't.

2) Second any information from the following noted writers is preferable: Steve Ryfle, Mark Rainey, Ed Godziszewsk, Norman England, John Paul Cassidy, Keith Aiken, August Ragone, Guy M. Tucker, David Kalat, Stuart Galbraith, Brett Homenick.

3) Third would be print and internet sources. Pretty much any book or article written by the above mentioned people would be preferable. However it can generally be assumed that any article that has appeared in/on the likes of G-Fan, Kaiju-Fan, Ultra-Fan, MAT, Markalite, Mad Scientist, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Sci-Fi Japan, The B-Master's Cabal circle of sites, can be trusted.

Obvious exceptions are obvious, such as FJA's erroneous KKvsG article in FM, which should only be cited as the origin of the alt. endings urban legend.