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Wiki Standards

When submiting pages to our wiki, please try to follow the conventions set out below. (To discuss these conventions, you can create a new thread in the Help & Feedback board.)

Consistency is the name of the game! And to that end, please keep an eye out on pages that already exist so we can update them to match these conventions. :)

Page Titles

This ultimately depends on which wikigroup a page is going in, because they each have their own conventions. Races, for instance, are plural (eg. Zanaryans instead of Zanaryan), but Creatures are singular (eg. Hydra instead of Hydras).

Plural

• Races
• Classes — except where pages reference a group instead of individuals (eg. the Aurumus Sept is a group so is singular, whereas Apali are individuals so are plural).
• Religion except where pages reference a group or one individual instead of a group of individuals (eg. the Priesthood of Xanth is a group so is singular, whereas Aides are individuals so are plural).

Singular

• Calendar & History
• Creatures & Plants
• Library
• NPCs & ONPCs — FirstName LastName (eg. "Jane Gruer" or "Zozeko ibn Nihim")
• Places
• People (includes Organisations)

Briticisms

Since I'm British and I've written most of the articles on the wiki in British English, it seems like we should continue this trend. I'm not too fussed about this from page to page so you can create pages in American English if you prefer, but if you edit an article that already has Briticisms (spelling with "-ise" instead of "-ize", for instance), please do continue in the same manner.

Links

Please link wherever possible! It's vital for wiki navigation that, if you reference another page on the wiki, you link to it — even if that page doesn't exist yet.

However, since having multiple links on a page all referencing the same article can be overwhelming, our policy now is to only link once per page, the first time another article is referenced.

Markup

Do not use HTML or BBCode. EF's wiki has its own markup instead. For example:

• Instead of <b>bold</b> or [b]bold[/b], use '''bold'''.
• Instead of <i>italic</i> or [i]italic[/i], use ''italic''.
• Instead of <a href="../Main/Submissions">Submissions</a> or [url=../Main/Submissions]Submissions[/url], use [[Main/Submissions]].

You can find a list of basic markup on the Basic Editing page, and the full list is in the Markup Master Index.

Numbers

Please use . (period) for decimal places and , (comma) to separate large numbers every three digits (eg. 56,716,831).

Small numbers, like seven, should usually be written out, but large numbers (two digits and up, like 14) should be in numerical format.

It's fine if you prefer to use the numerical format for both, but please be consistent within an article (so if it's written in the first paragraph as "14", don't start writing it as "fourteen" later).

Tags

We use a category system much like Wikipedia's to make it easier to cross-reference pages and (hopefully) find the information you want. Thus, every page that relates another specific page should have the appropriate tag on it ((eg. every page that relates to the Dracovari should have a [[!Dracovari]] tag on it), so then readers can follow that tag to other related articles.

(For an example, see the bottom of this page. You should see a series of "Tags", like Submissions, that lead to an index of other pages related to Wiki Submissions. You can find out more about tagging here.)

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