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UNOFFICIAL EVELOPEDIA MANUAL OF STYLE
This is an unofficial style guide for the pages within the EVELOPEDIA website. At this time, an official guide does not exist.
This manual includes a series of suggestions It is based on the official wiki
Contents
Purpose
The intention of this guide is to encourage clarity, consistency, accessibility, stability, and identification. The quality of page content is supported through quality of style and structure.
- Clarity promotes reader comprehension. Clear pages are easy to understand, easy to navigate, and easy to recall.
- Consistency accelerates the reader experience. Consistent pages are easy to navigate, easy to understand, and are visually pleasing.
- Accessibility increases reader adoption. Accessible pages require little previous knowledge and are contain content appropriate for all users.
- Stability discourages unnecessary change. Stable pages promote user retention.
- Identification increases content accuracy. Content source and date identification limits obsolescence.
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
- A page title should be a specific reference to the page topic (Mining not Making money)
- The title should be the most common name of the subject
- If a topic shares a number of commonly used names, multiple pages should be created and redirected to a main page. (0.0 (space), Null Security Space, and Null Security should redirect to Null Sec)
- The title should be as concise and descriptive as possible.
- The title should be a noun, gerund or noun-like adjective (Jita, Can Tipping, or Red (standing) )
- If a topic is ambiguous or could be confused with another, a descriptor in parenthesis should append the title. (Market (window) and Market (economy) )
Sections
Major page sections should represent the various user interaction types for the subject. Common sections include Exploration, Combat, , Culture, Fiction, History.
Sub Headings
Sub headings are designed to improve the navigation of large or otherwise unwieldy pages.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==