User:Silverpg017/Sandbox

The Manual of Style (MoS), also called formatting guidelines or just guidelines is the style manual for all articles in Pactoria Wiki. The purpose of these guidelines is to help the reader better read the wiki by having rules over its format, design and writing.

-Refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style (i'll add most important MoS parts here tho)

Page names

• Page names are the title of every page or article* in the wiki. You may only create articles within the main and user namespaces.
  • *Pages and articles aren't really the same, but for convenience's sake we'll interchangeably use these terms. Look up the difference between both terms if you're curious.
• Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word in the page's title.
• Do not use punctuation or special characters in page names. This includes formatting i.e. italic or bold text, and page names must not be colored or include currency symbols or special characters.
• Use neutral titles for historical event articles. For example, instead of calling it "Nation's Totally Bad-Ass Deployment in Nation2", call it "Nation-Nation2 War". If you feel the need to use non-neutral names, you may include them in the article's lead section as a secondary name.
• The page name should be precise and concise. Don't use vague wording and choose descriptive words.
• Every word in the page name must be capitalized.

Page sections

• An article should start with a lead section. Infoboxes, images, and other related content should always be right-aligned. Message box templates such as {{Lore}}
• An article's body must always be in third-person except for lore excerpts.
• In the article's body, use the present tense for entities that currently exist in the server's lore, and past tense for those that do not currently exist.
• In the article's body, always write out numbers that are less than three digits long. i.e. 99 = ninety-nine.

Page headings

Table of contents are numbered

• A heading is an introductory title for a page section. They generally follow the same guidelines for page names.
• A heading must never be numbered or lettered as an outline. The table of contents already does such job.
• A heading must never reduntantly refer back to the article's subject. i.e. Instead of "Character's early life", use "Early life"
• Do not use links in headings.

Markup

Italics

• Italics are used for emphasis, titles of creative works, foreign language terms or scientific plant, animal or race names.
• Avoid overusing italics to preserve the article's emphasis.

Boldface

• Boldface is commonly applied to the first occurrence of the page title's word or phrase in the lead, and most common synonyms.
• Avoid using boldface for emphasis, introducing new terms or expanding acronyms i.e. United Collectivized Lands