Daniel Larson Wiki:Transcripts

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Adding transcriptions of videos to Daniel Larson Wiki is highly encouraged, no matter if the video is of a minor event or a major incident. Transcripts make videos easier to reference, make Daniel Larson Wiki more accessible for those with hearing difficulties, and allow readers to know the exact events in a video without watching it, especially if the video contains sensitive content, or when loading videos is infeasible because of poor connection or data limitations. These guidelines are in place to make sure transcriptions are of uniform quality and formatting across the wiki. An snippet of a good transcript is shown below.

Employee: Please leave our premises right now.

Daniel: I'm asking for the number that called, because...

[Manager begins walking into view]

Employee: And I am asking you to—I'm telling you to leave.

Manager: It was Indulge, it's been Woody's Pizza? It's been every—

Color use

Transcripts should rely on color to further help differentiate the different people speaking in a video. There are multiple templates available to make coloring text easy, (to be continued)

Formatting

Dialogue should be pretended by the speaker's name/alias, or, if unknown, profession or role, and a colon, in bold, followed by a space and, then speech.

Omitted dialogue, such as redacted full names and addresses, should be encased in square brackets and colored the same as the rest of the speech.