Style Guide

Hello! Welcome to the Discovery Mod Wiki Editing Style Guide.

• Note: Please refrain from editing this Guide. If you have style suggestions please discuss them on the Talk page or on the Discovery Forums

This Guide is intended as a reference for new and veteran wiki editors to acquaint themselves with the styles and formatting in use by the Discovery Mod Wiki. Following the directions and examples in this Guide will help the numerous people working on the Discovery Mod Wiki to maintain a consistent format and style across all of the wiki pages. Please be considerate of your co-editors and readers by attempting to keep consistency as much as possible. Consistency in style and format leads people to being able to find things quicker, to read faster, and to find the required information more efficiently.

To get started click in the contents list on the subject you are interested in.

The Basics

Below are some subjects that should be adhered to, for across-the-wiki style and formatting consistency.

Spelling

Spelling should be in the American international form. If you are unsure what the American international spelling is for a particular word, just leave the word as written for other editors to correct. Below are some examples of US / UK words.

• Tire / Tyre
• capitalized / capitalised
• color / colour

Proper Nouns

A proper noun is the name that an item, place or person is known or called by. Proper nouns should have their first letter of every word of that noun capitalised. For example: "John Smith" is correct. "New york" is not correct.

Please use proper nouns where required. e.g. James Powell, Ames Research Facility, Cadiz Base. There are exceptions to this rule and the Guide will go into further detail at the relevant places.

Page Titles

Page titles should be in First Letter Capitalized format. This excludes conjunctions (of, and,). Again there are exceptions and will be stated where relevent. To keep track of these conjunction titled pages, please list them here if found or created, stating the page title and type of page.

• Jump_Gate_and_Trade_Lane_Parts (commodity)

In Text Links

In text links can use both lowercase words and uppercase. Use your discretion for which one is appropriate.

Lowercase Links

Passengers are civilians who have money and courage for interstellar travels. As transports are favorite targets for pirate attacks, many passengers find it safer to travel to distant places in freelancing ships. You will find passengers willing to travel on almost all populated planets, price they will pay you generally depends on the length of the route.

Uppercase Links

This lush green world is the home of the Cambridge Research Institute - an institution devoted to pure scientific research. The idyllic green fields also find themselves home to the manor retreats of New London's aristocracy during the warmer months of the year. Bretonia's epidemic food shortages required the planetary regents to place scientists and farmers together to develop more bountiful crops, making Cambridge the primary food supplier for Bretonia. Now many Cambridge scientists sympathise with the Gaian echo-terrorist movement, prompting the formation of political groups such as The Green Front and igniting bitter debates among researchers on topics such as terraforming.

Piping Links

A piped link is when the highlighted words direct you to an internal page that does not use those words in the Title. The pipes should direct to the plural of items and subjects, unless there is a proper noun. See below for examples. The format is as follows Words that are piped

[[New York System|NewYork]]
[[Bretonia Police Authority|BPA]]
*1 [[Class 5 Turrets|Class 5 Turret]] ****note the 's' missing when piping from a single weapon.

Categories

Every page should have an appropriate category. See the specific subject for more information.

Ship Pages

Template

There is a nice looking well working ship Infobox template that is being used. If you find a ship without the template or add a new ship, please format the ship page using the template. Copy and paste below into the top of your Ship page and fill out the fields. The Description of the ship goes directly under this Infobox. Example of complete Ship Page.

{{Ship_Infobox
|name = 
|image = 
|shipclass = 
|shipowner = 
|guns = 
|turrets = 
|hull = 
|cargo = 
|maxregens = 
|optwepclass = 
|maxwepclass = 
|maxshieldclass = 
|maxspeed = 
|maxthrust = ??
|maxpower = 
|recharge = 
|equipment = 
|hullcost = 
|fullcost = 
}}
Description goes here.

Headings

Most ships do not need many headings. Here are some suggested ones. Please direct single weapons to the plural of the page.

==Weapon hardpoints==
* 1 [[Class 5 Turrets|Class 5 Turret]]
* 2 [[Class 9 Guns]]
* 4 [[Class 3 Guns]]

==Availability==
* [[Freeport 9]], [[Omicron Theta]]
* [[Planet Manhattan]], [[New York System]], [[Liberty]]

[[Category: Discovery content]]
[[Category: Ships]]
[[Category: Civilian]]

To Add to this guide

• Please refarin from editing this Guide

• Clear examples of wiki page name convention

• Example pages to at least

- faction - system - base - commodity - ships (I think they are in best shape now) - misc page (if we have a template for it)

• Use categories

• and over all simple quide lines like do we write wiki link names in text with caps.