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| What makes a good article? When it is edited by many editors? When it contains information that is accurate, verifiable and relevant? When it links to and is linked by other atricles?.... | | {{Article Level}} |
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| How about all of those! Welcome to Lylat Wiki's Guide to producing good articles (stage 4 of [[LW:5StFA]]). On this page, you will find almost every topic on how to make a decent article, and how to make a good article from a decent one. This is not for starting a new article, or for expanding a stub. Those are [[LW:SAA]] and [[LW:Stubs]].
| | What makes a good article? The '''Quality Standards''' explains the composition of a good article for Lylat Wiki (stage 4 of [[LW:5StFA]]). Various topics are covered here, like how to expand on a [[:Category:Stubs|stub]]. A good article is widely considered to be one of the best articles on the wiki. A decent article is not as comprehensive like a good article, as it still requires fixing before reaching that status. |
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| * A '''good article''' - is considered to be among the best of the wiki, but has not been selected, or at one time was selected, to be a featured article.
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| * A '''decent article''' - is considered to be on it's way to being good, but still requires fixing and expanding before being so.
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| We thank the contributors of the following pages as they were a big help in creating the topics covered here.
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| * [[mariowiki:MarioWiki:Maintenance|Super Mario Wiki]]
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| * [[bulbapedia:Category:Notice templates|Bulbapedia]]
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| * [[wikipedia:Template:Multiple issues|Wikipedia]]
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| * [[zeldawiki:Zelda Wiki:Quality Standards|Zelda Wiki]]
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| == Language == | | == Language == |
| === inappropriate tone or style ===
| | Most importantly, articles must be written in a clear, encyclopedic tone. Do not add any biased, informal and/or opinionated content into an article. Other words to avoid using includes: |
| Articles should be written in an encyclopedic tone. Any of the following tones should be considered in appropriate unless there is a specific reason why it is that way, and the reason is clearly marked or visible. Feel free to mark it with {{t|inappropriate-tone-or-style}} or a more specific template bellow, when you see an article be more less encyclopedic
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| # advertisement - {{t|like-a-advertisement}}
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| # biased - {{t|biased}}
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| # biography - auto, unreliable citations - {{t|like-a-biography}}, {{t|like-an-autobiography}}
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| # written like a travel guide - {{t|like-a-travel-guide}}
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| # like a resume - {{t|like-a-resume}}
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| # a howto - {{t|like-a-how-to}}
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| # essay - {{t|like-a-essay}}
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| # reads like a story - {{t|like-a-story}}
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| === word usage ===
| | * jargon and other colloquial terms: this includes gaming terms, scientific, or slang terms |
| Articles should use the correct words. Which means no or little of:
| | * weasel words: these are words that appear to be specific but are not. |
| # colloquial terms or jargon - including gaming terms, scientific, or slang, without an appropriate link to explain the meaning. - {{t|colloquial}}, {{t|jargon}}
| | * promoting the subject: this is when the writer makes a template promoting the subject |
| # containing weasel words - Words that appear to be specific, but aren't. - {{t|weasel-words}}
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| # wording promotes subject - is written in such a way that it promotes the subject, rather than inform about it. - {{t|promotes-subject}}
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| # unencyclopedic - {{t|unencyclopedic}}
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| === Point of View === | | === Point of view === |
| Articles need to be written in a 3rd Person Point-of-View. They need to be written in a in-universe.
| | An article must be written in a third-person perspective, otherwise known as "{{w|Fictional universe|in-universe}}". Avoid using {{w|First-person narrative|first-person}} and {{w|Narration#Second-person|second-person}} narratives. A third-person perspective means that the writing is "neutralized". Articles must only contain information relating to the subject. |
| # first-person or second-person - {{t|wrong-narative}}
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| # fiction vs. fact - {{t|fiction-v-fact}}
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| # in-universe - {{t|in-universe}}, {{t|out-of-universe}}
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| # globalize - {{t|globalize}}
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| # not neutral - {{t|not-neutral}} | |
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| === conflict of interest === | | === Cleanup === |
| Articles need to be written in such away that doesn't cause it to conflict with itself. It should also not be written by the person it is written on. Please mark {{t|conflict-of-interest}} on articles you see having this problem
| | An article may not be well written and poorly sorted. Any article in need of a rewrite should be tagged with {{t|rewrite}} and provided with a reason, if possible. |
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| === confusing === | | === Tense === |
| Articles should be written in a clear and precise manner. - {{t|confusing}}
| | *'''Past tense:''' This should be used when describing the history or background of the subject. |
| | | *'''Present tense:''' This should be used when describing the gameplay. |
| === context ===
| | *'''Future tense:''' This tense should be avoided. |
| Articles need to contain only the information related to the title, and nothing outside of the articles context. A problem with the contect, can be marked with {{t|context-problem}} and then discussed on the related talk page.
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| === contradiction ===
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| An article should not say one thing in part, and then say the opposite in another. Should this happen, please put {{t|contradiction}} on the article, possible in the section where the contradiction is.
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| === example farm ===
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| Unless there is a good reason, an article should not exist to simply be an example of something. This means no:
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| # Demonstrating of Templates,
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| # Filling up Random Categories
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| # Using Random Files.
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| If you are trying to do an experiment, please keep it to a subpage of your userpage, or [[Lylat Wiki:Sandbox]]. If you see a page exisitng for no other reason than being an example farm, then please mark it with {{t|example-farm}}.
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| === clean up ===
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| Because an article can be written by anyone, and since we are all individuals, Not every article will be up to someone's spelling and/or grammar. If you find an article that needs some linguistic love, please either edit it yourself or mark it with {{t|SandG}}. If the clean-up needed is more general, please mark it with {{t|clean-up}}
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| === Time ===
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| Due to Lylat Wiki being an encyclopedia, and since no one has any clue when an article will be read, it is considered best to write in the past tense, unless there is a very good reason why it should be otherwise. Please be wary of the following:
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| : Writing an article to with the preference towards current events, helps understand what's going on write now, but what happens when the event is over?
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| ; {{t|proseline}}
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| : is the events in i timeline, that are better in a prose-form?
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| ; {{t|updated}},
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| : an event is going on, or has gone on, in which details of the article are no longer accurate. This is not for current events, where infromation is coming in for rapidly.
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| ; {{t|current events}}
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| : Event(s) are happening, that causes an article to repeatedly be out-of-date, and thus, will be changed many times over its course.
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| === unbalanced ===
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| In the event an article is largely one-sided, and can not easily be fixed by one editor, place {{t|unbalanced}} on it, and work on fixing it with other on the relevant discussion page.
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| == Verification == | | == Verification == |
| Any information can be put on a wiki, and Just as easily removed. With that kind of inconsistency and questionable reliability, it is best to verify something you put on the wiki with a reputable outside source. Just the same, if you see something on the wiki, you believe would be better said if it could be verified, please mark it so, or find a way to verify it yourself and post the link on the article. See [[LW:CP]] and [[Help:Citing Sources]] for more info.
| | Verification is needed, as any person can arbitrarily add unreliable information. The reader of an article expects to be provided accurate information on the subject. If a fact has debatable reliability, it must be marked with a reputable external source. In most cases, a reputable source is an official website relating to ''Star Fox''. For more info, see [[LW:CP]] and [[Help:Citing Sources]]. Here are some other things to know about citations: |
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| The following are possible situations related to citing sources, and how to handle them. | | *If a statement needs to be verified, add {{t|CitationNeeded}} after the sentence. |
| | *The citation must properly confirm the statement. |
| | *Do not use opinionated links or criticism for citation. If an article has this issue, add {{t|criticism-section}} to the appropriate section. A critical review of a subject is allowed on a personal user page or community page. |
| | *The wiki cannot predict the future, so speculation is not allowed. If there is any future or upcoming event (such as a new ''Star Fox'' game), sources must be added. |
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| === Missing citations === | | === Original research === |
| In the event an article has little to no citations, please put {{t|CitationNeeded}} near any statement that you believe needs citing. This should be done, even if the entire article is to your knowledge of the truth, since it may not be to someone else's.
| | Original research is one of the biggest problems involving article content. This is content, usually theories, that look reputable but were made up from the reader itself. Sometimes it may even be based on an official publication. Original research is similar but less distinguishable from blatant [[LW:FANON|fanon]]. |
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| === wrong citation style ===
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| If one or more references in a #References section are of the wrong style (e.g. references an archived website, but instead is styled for a print article, or is even not styled at all), please place {{t|Wrong Citation Style}} along with the ref #'s, if available.
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| === citations may not verify text ===
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| In the event a piece of text has a reference <sup>[number]</sup>, but the supplemental information doesn't really verify the statement, please place {{t|cmnvt}} at the top of the article, and give more details as to why you believe this to be so on the article's respective talk page.
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| === criticism ===
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| If an article presents the opinion of a critic, copies or features a criticism of the subject, then it must not be written to be a critic of the criticism, nor a critic of the subject matter itself. Presenting the criticism helps develop a fuller understanding of a topic, but it should not change the tone or point of view of the article. If you find a section that does so, please tag it with {{t|criticism-section}}
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| If you wish to provide a critical review of a subject, please do so at your user page or at a community page, which ever is more appropriate.
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| === speculations ===
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| Our wiki can't predict the future. No should it be edited to make it seem like it does. Specuilating - i.e. predicting future events inside or outside the star fox universe, about the star fox franchise, etc. - without providing sources to prove that it is likely to happen, is not a good idea to have on the wiki. It violates the trust visitor's have in the wiki and forces us to remove information we may otherwise want.
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| In short:
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| * Please do not use the wiki to try and predict the future - please use {{t|upcoming-event}} & {{t|future-events}} on something that contains information about an upcoming event.
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| * Please do no edit the wiki to forecast future events - {{t|future-edited}}
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| * Please only put information about planned future events (in universe or outside) when you have evidence to back it up - use {{t|speculation}} to mark an artilce with unverified perdicitions, and use {{t|future-events}} and {{t|upcoming-event}} to mark articles with perdicited events that can be verified.
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| * {{t|future-events}} is to be used for marking articles with in-universe perdicted events.
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| * {{t|upcoming-event}} is to be used for marking articles with out-of-universe perdicted events.
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| === accuracy disputed ===
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| Think an article contains unlikely statements? Think it says something that needs needs more references, even if there are some already there? Calling the accuracy into question, for these or any other reason, happens when you place {{t|Accuracy Disputed}} on top of the article.
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| === needs expert ===
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| Feel a page needs more verification? in doubt of an article's related scientific or game-play knowldge? Think we should bring an expert in on the subject? Then place {{t|Expert Needed}} on the article, and maybe a expert will get to it... if they aren't to busy be an expert :P.
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| === hoax ===
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| When a visitor comes to our wiki, they are expecting us to be honest about the subject matter. Providing truthful information backed by reliable sources help us keep that trust. However, providing false information, truthful information with fictionalized sources, or anything similar compromise the integrity of the wiki.
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| * If you see a page providing false information among true infomation, please tag it with {{t|info-maybe-false}} near the false information, and {{t|article-contains-false-info}} at the top.
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| * If you see a page providing nothing but false information, please place {{t|hoax}} at the top of the page.
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| * If any references you check out prove to be fictionalized (e.g. doesn't exist, from a april fool's website, etc.) please place {{t|references-fictionalized}}. Please do no put {{t|fictional-refernce}} as this may be a first party reference. For more, please see [[#Types of References]].
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| === written like a review ===
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| As tempting as it may be, please do not write an article to be a review of the subject matter. The wiki needs to present information as is, including all information without judgement. Sourcing outside reviews, from reputable authors and/or editors, helps develop an understanding of the subject matter, but the section or article should not be a review itself. If an article is written in such a way, please mark it with {{t|like a review}} at the top of the page or section.
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| === original research ===
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| This is one of the biggest problems a wiki faces, mostly due to the nature of anyone being able to edit. There will be times where a use has put in something not that they found in an official publication, but something they came up with themselves. Unlike a piece of fanon, or fanfiction, this information looks highly reputable, as if it did come from a official publication. Please tag {{t|Original Reserch}} if you see anything.
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| please understand that fanon is a fan-held theroy that doesn't necessarily regard official publications. Original research does honor official publications, but tries to build upon them with original ideas that weren't found in those publications, and therefore can't be verified, only partially proven.
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| Although they overlap, fanon and original reserch has some key differences:
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| === needs more references ===
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| An article has at least three references? good. Does it need more? if so, attach {{t|needs-more-resources}} at the top of the article and encourage others to add them.
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| If it has 3 of less citations, then please place {{t|Missing Citations}} on top instead.
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| === external links conflict guidelines === | | === external links conflict guidelines === |
| External links that are part of an Article, or in a #External Links section, need to be related to the subject of the article. In the event that they don't, please mark it with {{t|elcg}} if you feel this is so, but wish to see if others agree. | | External links that are part of an Article, or in a #External Links section, need to be related to the subject of the article. In the event that they don't, please mark it with {{t|elcg}} if you feel this is so, but wish to see if others agree. |
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| Once you have a decent-level article ready to be reviewed, seek out a good-level reviewer and ask them to review the page. If it passes, replace the article's -decent-level template with a -good-level one to show the article's promotion. | | Once you have a decent-level article ready to be reviewed, seek out a good-level reviewer and ask them to review the page. If it passes, replace the article's -decent-level template with a -good-level one to show the article's promotion. |
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| Once good, an article is eligible for being considered a '''featured article''' of the wiki.
| | == See also == |
| | *[[LW:SAA]] - creating an article |
| | *[[LW:Stubs]] - stubs |
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| | == Credits == |
| | We thank the contributors of the following pages as they were a big inspiration to this page: |
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| === Good Level Templates ===
| | * [[mariowiki:MarioWiki:Maintenance|Super Mario Wiki]] |
| {{Good Level Templates}}
| | * [[bulbapedia:Category:Notice templates|Bulbapedia]] |
| | * [[wikipedia:Template:Multiple issues|Wikipedia]] |
| | * [[zeldawiki:Zelda Wiki:Quality Standards|Zelda Wiki]] |
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| === Stub Level Review Team ===
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| {{Main|Lylat Wiki:Good Level Review Team}}
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| == Related Pages ==
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| {{Article Level}}
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| {{Usage Pages}} | | {{Usage Pages}} |
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