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Help:Style Guide

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Use this guide whenever creating or editing content on this wiki.

  • Titles of articles, subheadings, etc., should always be in Title Case. That is, capitalize important words.
  • This is MediaWiki, so the highest subheading level should be H2. (H1 is reserved for the article title.)
  • Heading and subheadings should be hierarchical.
  • All images should be free of copyright issues and properly credited in a caption.
  • Fill out your user profile. Include links to your own website.
  • Make sure every article belongs to at least one category. It is permissible (and in some cases, preferred) for some articles to belong to multiple categories.
  • If a header block template exists for a category, be sure to use it on every article in that category.
  • This is MediaWiki, so categories can (and in many cases, should) be hierarchical.
  • If you have questions about an article, feel free to discuss them on that article's talk page. If no talk page exists for an article, feel free to create one.
  • Feel free to mark pages that need expanding by adding {{Template:Stub}} at the top of the article.
  • Feel free to mark orphan pages that need backlins by adding {{Template:Orphan}} at the top of the article.
  • If an article is a hot mess, mark it as needed attention by adding{{Template:Needs Attention}} at the top of the article.
  • Only add an internal link to another article on the first instance in an article, not throughout the entire article.