IWTBAC Wiki Best Practices

Copy Guidelines

This section provides some style guide point for writing articles to keep terms and style consistent across all articles.

• Numbers should be words when they are not specific amounts or values. So "four hundred people attending" is preferred over 400 but £75 is preferred over seventy-five pounds.

• First and second person pronouns are acceptable but non-inclusive first person pronouns such us I or my are discouraged in articles; instead use we or our or use a noun. Within screener stories, quotes and anecdotal sections this rule does not apply.

• Tense use will vary within articles, however try not to have multiple tenses within one paragraph. This helps to delineate the articles' sections between historical reporting and talking about future events.

• Numbers should be divided by commas up to the decimal point: 1,456,345,678.4567

• Do not use BLOCK CAPITALS for emphasis, consider italics instead

• Rightsholder is always a single word.

Wiki Syntax

Text Format

To make text bold wrap the text you want in bold with three ' so '''Bold text''' will give you some tasty and authoritative looking Bold text

To give emphasis to your text with italicises you can just use two lots of ' and ''Italic text'' will give you Italic text

Links

To link to another page in the wiki you use [[]] If the text you want to make a link is exactly the same as the page title you wrap it in the square brackets thusly:

[[The Film]] which will give you a link like this The Film

If, for some crazy reason, you don't feel like crowbarring the name of an article into your sentence then you can add the words you want to form the link in with the name of the page to link to divided by a |

[[The Film|to any given article]] which will give you a link to any given article.

Templates

Images

Colour Pallet

When creating highlights in tables or generally using colour within templates or articles please select from the below pallet

Screener Stories

Page Lists

Wanted Pages is an automated list of articles that should exist based on links in other articles but have not yet been created.