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| wiki:page_guidelines [29 Dec 2023 00:55] – eris | wiki:page_guidelines [29 Dec 2023 00:57] (current) – [What if I am not an expert about <subject>?] eris | ||
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| It's a wiki! Start the page and either ask for help completing it, or tag it " | It's a wiki! Start the page and either ask for help completing it, or tag it " | ||
| + | We only ask that you follow these loose guidelines: | ||
| + | - Please make sure any claims are sourced well, unless they are extremely common knowledge. You should never have to take this wiki's word, you should always be able to view a source for any information presented here for yourself. | ||
| + | - Please don't fill pages for switches with lists of keyboards that contain them. We are trying to keep the focus away from this wiki turning into a phonebook for figuring out what switch a keyboard has. Pages for switches are concerned only with the switch itself, not with keyboards that may use it. | ||
| + | - Please don't put opinions into a page, for example "//x// is highly regarded" | ||
| + | - Stay on topic! For example, the DT wiki page for Alps SKCM Blue starts talking about its clones. If you're off the topic of the page, please create a new one. | ||
| + | - Make sure any new page you create has a link to it from at least one other page, or is tagged appropriately to appear in the category masterpages. | ||
| + | - Please don't directly link to eBay listings as sources. If you're going to do this, archive it with archive.org and link to the archive. eBay listings are fleeting! | ||
| ===== How do I link properly to other pages? How do I make a good "red link"? ===== | ===== How do I link properly to other pages? How do I make a good "red link"? ===== | ||
| Remember all pages need a namespace, so your red links should anticipate the namespace something will be in. For example, for a red link like [[switch: | Remember all pages need a namespace, so your red links should anticipate the namespace something will be in. For example, for a red link like [[switch: | ||