SeptemWiki:Style Guide

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.