Guidelines:Media Order

The media order policy of Megami Tensei Wiki outlines how media titles should be ordered in sections.

Overview

Because of the vastness of the Megami Tensei franchise and its high frequency of recurring elements, Megami Tensei Wiki adopts a particular order for how media titles should be ordered in page sections, lists, and galleries. This ordering follows a stacked tier based on media type appearances order, followed by series order, then by media title order. This ordering is generally only considered for subjects, such as characters and demons, that have appeared in more than one title or have appeared across series, and is designed to keep pages organized and intuitive when searching for particular content.

While the tiered order listed below should generally be kept most of the time, there may be some exceptions to this rule. Refer to the exceptions section below.

Appearances Order

As defined in the article writing guidelines, pages are constructed in a particular order of sections. For character, demon, skill, item, and location pages, the Appearances sections are kept in this order:

==Game Appearances==
==Audio Drama Appearances==
==Novel Appearances==
==Anime Appearances==
==Manga Appearances==
==Other Appearances==

Each section is self-explanatory for which media types they cover, while the "Other Appearances" section is for guest appearances or cameos in non-Megami Tensei media. Sections that are not applicable to the subject should be omitted.

Series

If a subject has appeared across more than one series, then media within the Appearances section are ordered by series. This is in the release or debut order for each series:

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei series
Shin Megami Tensei series
Last Bible series
Majin Tensei series
Devil Summoner series
Persona series
Devil Children series
Digital Devil Saga series
Devil Survivor series

Media Titles

Finally, after considering the media appearances and series orders, individual media titles are ordered by their original Japanese release dates.

To bring all of this into an example: the demon Lucifer's Game Appearances section would be ordered as such:

==Game Appearances==
===''Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei''===
===''Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II''===
===''Shin Megami Tensei''===
===''Shin Megami Tensei II''===
===''Shin Megami Tensei: Nine''===
===''Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne''===
===''Shin Megami Tensei IV''===
===''Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse''===
===''Shin Megami Tensei V''===
===''Last Bible''===
===''Last Bible III''===
===''Majin Tensei''===
And so on...

Exceptions

While the order defined above should generally be kept to for most pages, there may be certain exceptions where breaking the order would be more beneficial for a subject. For example: a character like Raidou Kuzunoha XIV, who has a more prominent role in the Devil Summoner series and a cameo role in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniax, would see more benefit having his Game Appearances section ordered as:

==Game Appearances==
===''Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army''===
===''Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon''===
===''Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne''===

This order prioritizes the character's lead appearances and the sections that most readers will be looking for, as opposed to the above standard order that would ordinarily list Nocturne Maniax first.