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- **Articles should contain actual prose.** | - **Articles should contain actual prose.** | ||
- | - This means regular text that's written in complete sentences. | + | - This means **regular text that's written in complete sentences**. |
- | - Bulleted lists and things | + | - **Bulleted lists** and content **in tables** or boxes do not count as prose. |
- | - Each section of an article should generally contain prose. | + | - **Each section** of an article should generally contain prose **immediately after any section header**. |
- | - Typically this goes immediately after any section header. | + | |
- Articles should be internally consistent. | - Articles should be internally consistent. | ||
- | - Articles of a common type (such as starships or guns) should adhere to the common format. | + | - Articles of a common type (such as starships or guns) should adhere to the common format |
- | - See [[guide: | + | - **Do not use forced |
- | - Don' | + | |
===== Article Titles And Section Headings ==== | ===== Article Titles And Section Headings ==== | ||
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- Leave a space on either side of the title or section heading and a blank line before them. | - Leave a space on either side of the title or section heading and a blank line before them. | ||
- Headers should be in order: H1 (title) should contain H2 sections, and they should contain H3 sections, etc. | - Headers should be in order: H1 (title) should contain H2 sections, and they should contain H3 sections, etc. | ||
- | - Ordered lists are preferred to unordered lists. | ||
===== Article Content ===== | ===== Article Content ===== | ||
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- In general, keep an encyclopedic tone. | - In general, keep an encyclopedic tone. | ||
- Occasional jokes and humor are okay. | - Occasional jokes and humor are okay. | ||
- | - It's okay to add examples from RP or quotes to add flavor. | + | - You are encouraged |
===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
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===== Images ===== | ===== Images ===== | ||
+ | As of 7/7/2018 the first image on a wiki article must be an image about the actual subject of the article. Don't use corporate logos, etc, as the first image on the page. This helps with indexing and page previews. | ||
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Please only use file names that make sense and are easily read. Badly named images make images difficult to find, and they make understanding the image difficult or impossible for blind and low-vision roleplayers who have to rely on the text being read to them. | Please only use file names that make sense and are easily read. Badly named images make images difficult to find, and they make understanding the image difficult or impossible for blind and low-vision roleplayers who have to rely on the text being read to them. | ||