Manual of Style

To ensure the wiki is neatly maintained to keep a continuous appearance, prevent confusion among others. When editing be sure to also follow other rules that we have in place. When editing any article within this wiki, be sure to follow our Manual of Style by doing the following:

Text Styling

This section goes over when and how you should use text styling in the wiki, this is critical as to make the wiki presentable and neat.

Titles

Article titles and section titles should be written in sentence case. This is sentence case; This is Not Sentence Case. The original capitalization should be kept for proper nouns, including names of experiences, groups, avatar shop items, players, events, classes, and the name of the Manual of Style itself. Section titles should only be used to describe a section of the article, should not be at the beginning of an article, and should not contain the lead text. == Appearance == followed by the article text should be used rather than == This item is red with white stripes == followed by no text.

Dates and time

Dates should be formatted like April 3, 2016 or April 3rd, 2016 not 3 April 2016, April 03, 2016, 2016/04/3, or any other format. The ISO 8601 format yyyy-mm-dd can be used in tables and other locations where the dates need to be short: 2016-10-03. In templates, the #time parser function can be used, while mw.language:formatDate can be used in Scribunto modules.

Time should be formatted either in 12-hour clock times, like 2:30 p.m., or 24-hour clock times, like 14:30. Hours under 10 should have a leading zero in 24-hour clock times, like 02:30, but not in 12-hour clock times (02:30 p.m.).

Indentations

When editing an article you may come across numbered text, or text that is in bulletpoints.

How and when to use bulletpoints?

The wiki uses bulletpoints when pointing out key instructions, events, or information that is part of something.

Numbered text example

Goals of PBST:

• Protecting the PBCC core, and facilities.
  • If a meltdown occurs make sure to head to emergency coolant and get the coolant rods to the correct level.
  • If a freezedown occurs you cannot use emergency coolant, you must evacuate to the rocket launch silos or the cargo containers near the PBRF vehicle elevator.

Code:

*Protecting the PBCC core, and facilities.
**If a meltdown occurs make sure to head to emergency coolant and get the coolant rods to the correct level.
**If a freezedown occurs you cannot use emergency coolant, you must evacuate to the rocket launch silos or the cargo containers near the PBRF vehicle elevator.

How and when to use numbered text?

The wiki uses numbered text when listing steps, items in order, or events that occur in order.

Numbered text example

How to edit an article:

1. Go to an article.
2. Make sure you have permission to edit the article.
   1. If you have access you can edit the article.
   2. If you don’t have access then you cannot edit the article.
3. When you are done editing the article you need to type what you did in the edit summary box.

Code:

#Go to an article.
#Make sure you have permission to edit the article.
##If you have access you can edit the article.
##If you don’t have access then you cannot edit the article.

#When you are done editing the article you need to type what you did in the edit summary box.

Article Messages

Article Messages utilized Mbox which is used to show information to users when visiting a certain article. You can use the following Mbox templates in articles if they meet the certain requirements.

Stub Article

A Stub message is warranted if the article is either blank, less than 200 words, missing big amounts of information such as info of a game or group.
You would do the following if the information above regarding stubs meets the requirements for that article:

1. Open the page editor
2. Insert the following into the top of the page

   • {{Stub}}

3. After you insert the following you may save the page.

Important: You must type in “Added Stub message”, “Stub message”, or anything else that is similar to show that you have added the message to that article.