Difference between revisions of "Help:Conventions"

Latest revision as of 22:11, 4 April 2010

This is to set out the basic conventions on this wiki.

Try to keep the style of the wiki uniform.
Please use categories instead of handcrafted lists to cut down on maintenance. Every page should be in one of the existing categories that you can navigate to from the list of contents.
Follow the Wikipedia style as appropriate. At least:
- An article about something should have a brief lead paragraph.
- The "References", "External links", and "See also" sections should be the last.
Use only the talk pages for communication. It's OK to alert others to your contributions, but do not rely on emails as they are not visible to others on the wiki.
Do not edit user pages of other editors.

That's it for now. We'll see how it develops. Thanks!

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 This is to set out the basic conventions on this wiki.
-* If you want to keep your contribution to yourself until ready, build it under your user page (just start a new page named yourusername/pagetitle), and then move to the final place when ready.
+* Try to keep the style of the wiki uniform.
-* Do not edit pages under the user pages of other.
+* Please [[Help:Categories|use categories]] instead of handcrafted lists to cut down on maintenance. Every page should be in one of the existing categories that you can navigate to from the [[list of contents]].
-* Use only the talk pages for communication. Do not rely on emails as they are not visible to others on the wiki.
-* Keep the style of the wiki uniform.
 * Follow the [[wikipedia:WP:Manual of style|Wikipedia style]] as appropriate. At least:
 ** An article about something should have a brief [[wikipedia:WP:LEAD|lead paragraph]].
-** The "References", "External links", and "See also" sections should be last
+** The "References", "External links", and "See also" sections should be the last.
-** Use categories instead of handcrafted lists to cut down on maintenance.
+* Use only the talk pages for communication. It's OK to alert others to your contributions, but do not rely on emails as they are not visible to others on the wiki.
+* Do not edit user pages of other editors.
-That's it for now. We'll see how it develops.
+That's it for now. We'll see how it develops. Thanks!
 [[Category:Help|Conventions]]