Difference between revisions of "Help:Style"

Revision as of 02:43, 12 June 2012

because the Cosmere books are all in the same universe, it has been decided that the articles should be written in the past tense, with exception of Magic related articles.
you only need to link the first instance of something on a page
it's ok to only use the first name of the character when referring to someone already mentioned on that page (especially the subject of the article)
another minor thing, it's much better if you refrain from using curly quotes and apostrophes, stick with the plain " and ' characters.

They should be singular
- [[Highprince]]s instead of [[Highprinces]]
Character articles should not include honorifics, and should consist of their full name
- Highprince [[Sadeas]] instead of [[Highprince Sadeas]]
- an exception is Vin, which should not be moved to `Vin Venture`

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-* because the Cosmere books are all in the same universe, it has been decided that the articles should be written in the past tense
+* because the Cosmere books are all in the same universe, it has been decided that the articles should be written in the past tense, with exception of Magic related articles.
 * you only need to link the first instance of something on a page
 * it's ok to only use the first name of the character when referring to someone already mentioned on that page (especially the subject of the article)
-* a personal opinion, but we(I) prefer having each sentence on a new line, it makes the diff prettier too :D
 * another minor thing, it's much better if you refrain from using curly quotes and apostrophes, stick with the plain " and ' characters.
-* the titles of books should not be mentioned in in-universe articles, other than in [[help:cite|references]] or any [[help:templates#infoboxes|infobox templates]] that ask for them.
 == Article titles ==
 * They should be singular