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UNOFFICIAL EVELOPEDIA STYLE GUIDE

This is an unofficial style guide for the pages within the EVELOPEDIA website. At this time, an official guide does not exist.

Guide to page and text formatting as well as writing style

Purpose

The intention of this guide is to encourage:

Clarity - Promotes reader comprehension.
Consistency - Accelerates the reader experience
Accessibility - Increase reader adoption
Stability - Discourages unnecessary changes
Identification - Increases content accuracy

Format

Page Formatting

The page format consists of a few features. Included in the formatting are the page title, section organization, subsection organization, picture integration, and template integration.

Page Title

  1. A page title should be a specific reference to the page topic.
  2. The title should be as concise and descriptive as possible.
  3. The title should be a noun, gerund or noun-like adjective.
    1. ex. "Jita", "Can Tipping", or "Red (standing)"
  4. If a topic is ambiguous or could be confused with another, a descriptor in parenthesis should append the title.
    1. ex. "Market Window" and "Market (economy)"
  5. If a topic shares a number of commonly used names, multiple pages should be created and redirected to a main page.
    1. ex. "0.0 (space)", "Null Sec", and "Null Security" should redirect to "Null Security Space"

Sections

Major sections should represent the various user interaction types for the subject.

Common sections include
    1. "Exploration"
    2. "Combat"
    3. "Industry"
    4. "Culture"
    5. "Fiction"
    6. "History"

Sub Headings

Sub headings are designed to improve the navigation of large or otherwise unwieldy pages. All sections, headings and subheadings will automatically generate an entry on the page's table of contents.

Paragraph Formatting

Indentation

Lists

Tables

Text Formatting

Capitalization

Italics

Bold

Underline

Punctuation

Abbreviations

Numbers

Whitespace

Page Links

External Links

Images

Size

Placement

Misc.

Writing Style

Grammar

Voice

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