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The following need to be discussed

Page (Article) Naming Conventions

The following are the options

• Capitalizing the first letter only (The article name)
• Capitalizing all the first letters of the words (The Article Name)
• Have all small letters (the article name)

Another point I'd like to see clarified is that should the page names have full names? e.g.

• 'Dresden System' instead of Dresden
• 'Ronneburg Base' instead of Ronneburg

Discussion: I think we should go with all first caps (The Article Name) since most of the pages are already following that format. I'm all for using the full name and use the piping technique in linking. Looqas 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)

Linking to existing pages

Linking technique

There are variations.

• NPC Factions

  [[NPC Factions]]

• NPC Factions

  [[NPC Factions|NPC Factions]]

• These are the Bretonian non-player factions

  [[NPC Factions#Bretonia NPC Factions|These are the Bretonian non-player factions]]

Repeating the linking in an article

I find it a bit tedious to read if all the words are linked, so it could be

• First encounters in the whole article of the word should be linked?
• First encounter in a paragraph should be linked?
• Sprinkle then using common sense?

Discussion: Personally I like links to be like of last format of linking since it's explicit and works in all cases allowing also to make the link text to be anything you like.

On the second point somehow I think sprinkling could be the best solution. Once in a paragraph is enough I think. If the article is long then it makes sense to have the linking done several times. Looqas 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)

Writing conventions

• Are we gonna capitalize the text that are links e.g.

...this will lead to Jump Hole... or should we stick to English ...this will lead to jump hole...

Discussion: I'm inclined to using the small letters, but whatever... Looqas 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)

Page composition and templates

Page types

These are types that come to my mind and all should have some sort of common template of layout. We should have links into each page type in this very guide after we have decided upon a format.

• Ships, e.g. Odin Very heavy fighter (and their info boxes)
• Systems, e.g. New York System (I like this page and it looks good
• Indivual pages for NPC Factions. All we have now is all of them grouped together NPC Factions
• Terms and definitions, e.g.[[Trade Lane|Trade Lane] (This is one of the page types I'd like to see more clarification on since we have multiple formats there)
• Misc pages

Templates

A long list of links to different templates below:

• Template for systems
• Template for Ships

etc.

Discussion: The list contains only of a few that came into my mind quickly. Looqas 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)

Using Categories

Should we included categories in all the pages? My personal opinion is yes. It would help. Looqas 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)