Help:Style Guide

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This guide is to provide a standard set of guidelines for the eRepublik Wiki. All users should follow these guidelines.

Contents 1 Acronyms 2 Categories 3 Dates 4 Deleting 5 Page Naming 5.1 Articles 5.2 No Prefixes 5.3 No special characters 5.4 Non-English Pages 6 Templates 6.1 Leave it Blank! 7 Writing 7.1 3rd Person

Acronyms

Acronyms should not be used because they can be confusing. This is a wiki for the entire New World, the acronym can mean the same thing in several countries.

Exception 1 : If you choose to use them in your document, please create a link like this [[Black Lion Front|BLF]] so that BLF appears, but the link goes to the party

Exception 2 : The organization or citizen name is actually an acronym

Categories

EVERY PAGE in the wiki needs a category. Pages that use one of the common templates will automatically have categories assigned based on user input. Other pages need to have a category manually assigned.

• Categories are not labels, they are groups of similar articles
• New categories should be created sparingly and only if needed.
• 95% of categories are subcategories
• Do not OVER categorize. For example, [[Category:United States Armed Forces]] is a subcategory of [[Category:United States of America]]. The page United States Marine Corps only needs [[Category:United States Armed Forces]]
• Pages in languages other that English must have the category of the language (see Help:Translating Pages for more information)

Dates

Write out dates. Dates are written in various ways around the world. To avoid confusion, please write 2 May 2009 or May 2, 2009 instead of 5/2/2009 or 2/5/2009

Deleting

Do not just blank pages, ask for them to be deleted. See eRepublik: Deletion policy to learn how.

Page Naming

Articles

Do not start wiki titles with "A" or "The"

Exception: The newspaper/organization/party has the article in its proper name, like a newspaper is called "The News"

No Prefixes

Do not start pages with "Citizen", "Company", "Newspaper", or "Party". This happens when you start a page by clicking the wiki link from the game. You need to create a redirect on these pages to the page you are creating.

• For example, a newspaper is called "The Report" if I click the wikilink in the game, I will start a page called "Newspaper The Report"
• Create a redirect #REDIRECT [[The Report]] click save
• Click the link you just made and start creating the page

No special characters

eRepublik doesn't allow them so we do not either... However, you can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:DesiredTitle}} so that the page name appears with the proper accents.

Non-English Pages

All pages not in English MUST follow the guidelines on Help:Translating Pages

Templates

Leave it Blank!

In templates, if the information doesn't apply or the answer is "I don't know" or "none" LEAVE IT BLANK. Also if an entire section doesn't apply, leave it in the template. It might apply later.

Writing

3rd Person

This is an encyclopedia that is founded on facts and neutrality. This means that there is little room for first person accounts. Please write articles in the third person, even if you are writing about yourself, your company, your party etc... So statements should be "John Doe believes in democratic principles." not "I believe in democratic principles"