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== Basic Formatting == | == Basic Formatting == | ||
* Never use the top level headline. That's what page | * Never use the top level headline. That's what the title of each page formats as. Start with the second level. | ||
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<nowiki>= This is a bad top level headline, one equals sign on each side = | <nowiki>= This is a bad top level headline, one equals sign on each side = | ||
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** ''Example of something not easily found elsewhere:'' That [[Quemahoning Tunnel]] was completed in 1905, or that its west portal was obliterated in 1981 by Turnpike construction crews. | ** ''Example of something not easily found elsewhere:'' That [[Quemahoning Tunnel]] was completed in 1905, or that its west portal was obliterated in 1981 by Turnpike construction crews. | ||
* If your source is likely to be something used on multiple pages, make life easier for yourself and everyone else, and add it to the <code>Source:</code> namespace. See [[Help:Citations]] for instructions. | * If your source is likely to be something used on multiple pages, make life easier for yourself and everyone else, and add it to the <code>Source:</code> namespace. See [[Help:Citations]] for instructions. | ||
== Notes or External Links? == | |||
Supposing I got a key fact from some other webpage. Should I put that in a Notes or External Links section? | |||
Well, the obvious first answer is "if you're going to use a footnote, then refer to the Notes section." | |||
An External Links section should be thought of as just "See Also" for stuff outside this wiki. If you are answering the question "Wait a second, how do you know that?" it's a Note. If you are telling the reader "Hey, now that you've read this article, if you're interested in learning more, check this other thing out" it's an External Link. | |||
'''Note example:''' The Turnpike Commission press releases about the closing of things like [[Hempfield Service Plaza]]. | |||
'''External Link example:''' Adam Prince's page about [[Ray's Hill Tunnel]]. | |||
Revision as of 17:02, 19 March 2016
This page is a style guide for SeptemWiki.
Basic Formatting
- Never use the top level headline. That's what the title of each page formats as. Start with the second level.
= This is a bad top level headline, one equals sign on each side = == This is a good 2nd level headline, two equals signs on each side ==
Citations
- If you're going to include some fact that isn't widely known or easily found on something like Wikipedia, a source would be nice. We don't have to be as fussy about this as Wikipedia does, but it might be nice to help out.
- Example of something easily found elsewhere: How long one of the Tunnels is.
- Example of something not easily found elsewhere: That Quemahoning Tunnel was completed in 1905, or that its west portal was obliterated in 1981 by Turnpike construction crews.
- If your source is likely to be something used on multiple pages, make life easier for yourself and everyone else, and add it to the
Source:namespace. See Help:Citations for instructions.
Notes or External Links?
Supposing I got a key fact from some other webpage. Should I put that in a Notes or External Links section?
Well, the obvious first answer is "if you're going to use a footnote, then refer to the Notes section."
An External Links section should be thought of as just "See Also" for stuff outside this wiki. If you are answering the question "Wait a second, how do you know that?" it's a Note. If you are telling the reader "Hey, now that you've read this article, if you're interested in learning more, check this other thing out" it's an External Link.
Note example: The Turnpike Commission press releases about the closing of things like Hempfield Service Plaza.
External Link example: Adam Prince's page about Ray's Hill Tunnel.