Difference between revisions of "Help:Style"

==General Style==

When writing articles, the most important thing is to make it feel like an encyclopedia. Keep it informative. Don't include your personal opinion. For example, on an article like Shards, don't add random parenthetical statements that say "I learned this crazy fact!" or, even worse, "This is cool!" or "Where did you learn this?" Articles should stand on their own. If a fact seems a bit extraordinary, you should cite it, so there is no question about its factual accuracy. Above all, there is absolutely no reason to use first person. This is a collaborative effort, and so personal facts or interjections are totally irrelevant. If you find something cool, just add the new fact into the article. That said, all of these sort of personal comments or discussion is totally reasonable for an article's talk page (click the Discussion tab at the top, to the right of "Page")! So, you can totally discuss things like this, but the actual article itself should remain an encyclopedia entry and free of that stuff.

 

Use American English (British English isn't a big deal, but the correct spelling will probably be eventually edited out in favour of its corrupt brethren). So, use [[aluminum]] instead of aluminium.