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== Style & Content Guide == | == Style & Content Guide == | ||
Articles need to be designed with 2 things in mind: [[wikipedia:accessibility]] and [[wikipedia:findability]]. Everything on the article, and often in other pages too, needs to be easily findable through search engines (google included) and through the browser. | |||
* To be accessible: Means not to be available to even those with impairments on their hearing or seeing. | |||
* to be findable: Means it is easy to find the information on a given page. | |||
How an article accomplished is as follows: | |||
# ''sectionalized'': using <nowiki>===</nowiki> header tags, a section is carved out of the page for a specific area of content. The section title needs to be coherent and accurate reflection of the content bellow. | |||
# ''multiple ways of displaying info'': There are multiple ways people observe, learn, and understand information. This also means, that if information is stored in an image, there needs to be a text base equivalent for those who are hard of seeing, have reduced bandwidth, images disabled, etc. | |||
Sections that are often found on | |||
=== introduction === | === introduction === | ||
# too short | An introduction needs to be a summary of the article, as well as a paragraph giving general information that is relevant, but does not necessarily fit into any of the lower sections exclusively. | ||
# too long | |||
# missing | An introduction can be marked with the following: | ||
# rewrite | # {{tl|too short}} | ||
# {{tl|too long}} | |||
# {{tl|missing}} | |||
# {{tl|rewrite}} | |||
=== lacks historical info === | === lacks historical info === | ||
In order to get a better understanding of a subject, it is sometimes best to see how they got there. For us, this manifest itself in two ways: | |||
# ''{{tl|OOUHI|Out of Universe}}'' - What was the creator thinking when he came up with a character? | |||
# ''{{tl|IUHI|In-Universe Info}}'' - how did a character get to where they are? how did a ship get designed? how did the item [[bomb]] come into existence? | |||
=== quotes === | === quotes === | ||
# too many | Quotes are always fun to throw around, but how do you know when there is enough? | ||
# too little | well, put one of the following down, and discuss it with your fellow editors. | ||
# {{tl|too many quotes}} | |||
# {{tl|too little quotes}} | |||
=== plot === | === plot === | ||
# too much info | We all like to know generally what happened in a game, but what if you are in the middle of playing you look up how to do something, and by accident, you read to much. When this happens, the plot has been spoiled for you. | ||
# too little info | |||
# spoiler | including the plot is important for an article - we need to know what when on, in order to get a full understanding of the subject. | ||
# {{tl|too much info}} - in the event too many details are given, and it detracts from the quality of the article. | |||
# {{tl|too little info}} - if there is little to know information of the plot, and it is important to the article. | |||
# {{tl|spoiler}} - a template to hide important plot details you don't want people to know, should they care for something like this. | |||
=== rewrite entirely === | === rewrite entirely === | ||
If an article is really, really bad, please put {{tl|rewrite entirely}} on it. this will prompt users (hopefully) to rush in, trying to edit the article to make it better. | |||
If you have vollunteered to mass rewrite an article, first '''THANK YOU''', from the entire {{LW:Admin}}. You have no idea how much work you are saving us, and we probably we'll never get to properly show you gratification. Second, please post {{tl|mass rewrite}} on top of the article, in order to give notice to other that a mass edit is going on, and in order to prevent edit wars, they may wish to wait on their contributions. But please remove the notice when you are done. | |||
=== needs reorganized === | === needs reorganized === | ||
# | Think an article needs to be reorganized? is it missing sections that you know should be there? | ||
# sectionalized | |||
=== list of non-notable stuff === | === list of non-notable stuff === | ||
In the event an article has decrease in quality to the point of not containing anything notable and being no more than a list, please place {{tl|list-of-non-notable-stuff}} on it. | |||
== Linking == | == Linking == | ||
One of the beautiful things about wikis, are there ability to [[wikipedia:hot-link]] to other articles. But how often should something be hot-linked? and how many links should an article have? | One of the beautiful things about wikis, are there ability to [[wikipedia:hot-link]] to other articles. But how often should something be hot-linked? and how many links should an article have? | ||