FlightGear wiki:Style guide: Difference between revisions

From FlightGear wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Redirect to FlightGear wiki:Manual of Style as the contents of this page were merged there)
 
Line 1: Line 1:
{{mergeto|FlightGear wiki:Manual of Style|FlightGear wiki talk:Manual of Style#"FlightGear wiki:Style guide" should be merged here |date=August 2015}}
#REDIRECT [[FlightGear wiki:Manual of Style]]
 
{{incomplete}}
 
This '''style guide''' is a recommendation on style and disposition of articles and templates and their use on this wiki.
 
== Pages in general ==
=== Page titles ===
Due to technical reasons there are limitations in what characters can be used in the page title.
* First letter in namespace and page title is not case sensitive and is automatically capitalised. (help:style guide → Help:Style guide)
* The characters <code># < > [ ] | { }</code> are not valid in a page title.
 
=== Headings ===
Avoid using links in headings if at all possible.
 
=== Typography ===
 
=== Links ===
=== When not to link ===
Let's start here, since this is the easiest.
* Links to commercial and unrelated web sites, in essence ''spam'', are frowned upon.  Few readers are here looking for cheaper sports shoes...
* Links in headings should be avoided if at all possible.
* Links should preferably be avoided in the first section, though sometimes they are needed right there.
 
=== When to link ===
Apart from the obvious places for links, the two sections "Related content" and "External links", links should preferably be used within a text only the first time their topic is mentioned or when a concept is introduced.
 
However, in longer articles it can be advantageous to have the links occur again further down, even more so if a long portion of the article was about another subtopic or if you can assume that a reader would only look into a longer section of the article.
 
=== When to use permalinks ===
The use of [[Help:Formatting#Permalinks and links to diffs|permalinks]] instead of ordinary wiki links is highly encouraged in comments on discussion pages, since the content may have changed a lot before the next reader reads the comment. Sometimes it is also useful to link to a [[Help:Formatting#Permalinks and links to diffs|diff]].
 
=== Images ===
 
== Articles ==
=== Typical article disposition ===
{{Main article|FlightGear wiki:Style guide – Article disposition}}
 
== Articles about ongoing development ==
 
== Images ==
 
== Templates ==
=== Template documentation ===
 
== Related content ==
 
== External links ==
* [[wikipedia:Style guide|Style guide]] article at wikipedia.
* [[meta:Help:Page name|Help:Page name]] on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki.  About valid page names.
 
[[Category:Wiki style guides]]

Latest revision as of 16:16, 8 April 2016

Redirect to:

Retrieved from "https://wiki.flightgear.org/w/index.php?title=FlightGear_wiki:Style_guide&oldid=96828"