Ace Attorney Wiki talk:Manual of style

Referring to episodes
I feel that there is a bit of a dilemma in terms of how episodes are referenced in in-universe articles. Up to now, I and others have been using the (italicized) names of the episodes as if they were the actual names as people in the series would refer to them, slowly obliterating the use of less official notation like "Case 2-2". However, now that I think about it, it seems kind of inconsistent to keep using the episode names.

Some solutions: capefeather 23:17, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Keep doing what we are doing. This might be the best thing to do if alternatives offer little net advantage.
 * 2) Start referring to episodes as "the (victim) murder case". This goes in line with Rise from the Ashes: "???: You're THE Phoenix Wright!? The Phoenix Wright from the Edgeworth murder case?! Phoenix: Um, yes, that's correct. (It wasn't Edgeworth who was murdered, though...)" However, I'm not sure of whether this is a very "official" way of referring to cases in general, and it's not consistent with cases like the DL-6 Incident. The extrapolation implied also might also be considered borderline speculation, though I don't that's too much of a problem.
 * 3) Use "State v. (defendant)" or "California v. (defendant)", but this also seems to creep into speculation territory.
 * 4) Accept all three.