Bearwood Park Wiki:Style Guide

This is the Style Guide for the Bearwood Park Wiki. This guide exists to standardize content across the wiki. This guide is recommended to be read before editing, and it must be followed.

Notice: This guide is still a work in progress. Everything on this page is subject to change due to the wiki being so young. Thank you.

Key

 * Red text means that something is incorrect.✘
 * Green text means that something is correct.✔

Grammar

 * All times are to be written as "Month Date, Year".
 * 25th of August, 2020.
 * 25/9/2020.
 * August 25, 2020.
 * The wiki is to be written in American English, unless something in-game is referred to as its British English name by the game or staff.
 * Do not capitalize words mid-sentence with the exception of proper nouns. Aside from that, common nouns should never be capitalized mid-sentence.
 * This applies to article titles. Although "Staff" is referred to with a capital "S", this is because it is a title. It should always be normalized to "staff" within an article.
 * Gokhan is an Administrator for Bearwood Park. ✘
 * Gokhan is an administrator for bearwood park. ✘
 * Gokhan is an administrator for Bearwood Park. ✔
 * All instances of Bearwood Park should be italicized. If it is the first or only instance of it appearing on a page, it should also be linked.
 * Gokhan is an administrator for Bearwood Park. ✔
 * Gokhan is an administrator for Bearwood Park. ✘
 * No abbreviations, slang or any form of colloquialism is to be used within articles, unless that is how it is referred to by the game or staff.
 * Gokhan is an administrator for BWP. ✘
 * Gokhan is an administrator for Bearwood Park. ✔
 * Gokhan is an admin for Bearwood Park. ✘
 * Apostrophes should only be used to show the omission of letters or to indicate possession.
 * Apostrophes should not be used to indicate that a word is plural!

Editing

 * Always title a page by its official name in Bearwood Park. If the topic does not have an official name, mark it as a Conjecture
 * Editing in source mode is highly encouraged. It can make keeping an article much cleaner than what's possible in the VisualEditor.
 * Links only need to be added a page once. A link to the same page needn't be added more than that.

Templates
Gokhan is an administrator for Bearwood Park
 * If an article contains an article message box, it should go at the top of a page. This is because they are relevant to all of the page.
 * Example:

Infoboxes

 * Infoboxes are to be placed underneath a pages article message box, otherwise on top.
 * They should be formatted as such:
 * If the article has an article message box, it should be laid out like this:

Categories

 * Every article should contain at least 1 category. If you are unsure as to what categories to place on an article, either look at articles of a similar subject or see Special:Categories.
 * To add categories, type in source mode.
 * Categories should only ever be added at the bottom of a page.