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Articles are referenced by their names, so choosing an appropriate one is very key. Most information can be referred to by its proper name, such as "Vampires" or "Azdun". Sometimes, it's helpful to further qualify a name if it's possibly ambiguous we do this by appending a parenthetical to the end. For example: "Twilight (time of day)" could differentiate between "Twilight" (referring to the God). | Articles are referenced by their names, so choosing an appropriate one is very key. Most information can be referred to by its proper name, such as "Vampires" or "Azdun". Sometimes, it's helpful to further qualify a name if it's possibly ambiguous we do this by appending a parenthetical to the end. For example: "Twilight (time of day)" could differentiate between "Twilight" (referring to the God). | ||
If an article's title has more than one word, ''DO'' use spaces. "Great Mhunna" not "GreatMhunna". | |||
===Namespaces=== | ===Namespaces=== | ||
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* Do not include OOC comments in the body of the page. If you need to share information or comments about an article, use the "Talk"/"Discussion" tab for that page. | * Do not include OOC comments in the body of the page. If you need to share information or comments about an article, use the "Talk"/"Discussion" tab for that page. | ||
* Use UK English to be consistent with in-game text - honour instead of honor, et colour instead of colour, et cetera. | * Use UK English to be consistent with in-game text - honour instead of honor, et colour instead of colour, et cetera. | ||
==Standardised Formatting== | |||
We are using the Wikipedia Manual of Style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style) for basic formatting guidelines. | |||
==Privileged Information== | ==Privileged Information== | ||
*The same rules go here as for the Forums. Please do not share quests, skills information, or anything that should reasonably stay private (i.e., guild news posts, Order secrets, et cetera). | * The same rules go here as for the Forums. Please do not share quests, skills information, or anything that should reasonably stay private (i.e., guild news posts, Order secrets, et cetera). | ||
=Editing= | =Editing= | ||
When you edit an existing page, please be considerate and summarise what you did in the Summary field . | When you edit an existing page, please be considerate and summarise what you did in the Summary field. | ||
=New Pages= | |||
New pages can be created in wiki-fashion by creating a link in an existing page/article or by simply trying to access that page in your browser directly. For example: <nowiki>"http://www.achaea.com/lore/My New Article"</nowiki> should (in most modern browsers) take you to the correct place and you may edit from there. Take care, however when creating these 'orphaned' pages. Because they can be hard to find if an existing page does not link to them. And chances are, if the topic was important enough to have an article, it is mentioned in some related article(s). | |||
Also, when creating new pages, feel free to go back to older, related pages and create any links that may seem appropriate. | |||