Plunderpedia:Style guide

Defer questions of style to Style and How-to directories. If you're new to the wiki way, take a look at Notes for New Users for some useful links.

Article Names
Everything should follow:
 * Wikipedia's naming conventions
 * Wikipedia's disambiguation page

Pirate articles need to follow Plunderpedia policies in regards to creation/content and article names should be in-game capitalization, and the exact name (not nickname) such that a person could /crew lookup.

Profile pages
Link to the appropriate categories page at the bottom of an article.


 * Islands should use the Template:Infobox island/doc infobox and add the article manually to the correct category. The article name should be the exact name of the island (Excluding any crew tags, or other tags in the island name).
 * Crews should use the Template:Infobox crew/doc infobox and add the article manually to the correct category. Crew pages are to be named in the format . For example 'Staff/PlunderSeas Staff'
 * Shops and Houses should use the Template:Infobox building/doc infobox and add the article manually to the correct category.
 * Pirates should use the Template:Infobox pirate/doc infobox and add the article manually to the correct category. The article name should be the exact name of the pirate. (Including any numbers).
 * Items should use the Template:Infobox item/doc infobox and add the article manually to the correct category.


 * Wikipedia's categorization policy.

Comments
Add the comments to the top of a page to mark it as needing a fix. Simply paste in, for exmaple " " using the source editor.
 * - for articles that need to be cleaned up to a higher standard of quality.
 * - for articles that contain factual inaccuracies or questionable statements with no references.
 * - for images whose resolution makes it unsuitable.
 * - for articles (likely crew or island histories) where a neutral point of view may not be present.
 * - for articles that need to be rewritten in third person.
 * - for articles which should be deleted are awaiting deletion.