Proposed Standards

This page is only for the discussion and drafting of standards.

Established standards can be found on the Established Standards page.

This page contains all formally established standards for creating and editing wiki pages. For standards that are not listed here, see Proposed Standards. This page assumes a basic knowledge of wiki editing.

Due to the examples listed on this page, headings herein are messy, so a wiki-generated table of contents is not suitable. For your convenience, the major sections of this page are:

• Information about KoL Standards
  • Headings
  • Tables of Contents
  • File names
  • Categories
  • Page Needs Work

Headings

• Please, always use "h2" or "==" headings, or smaller sizes thereof.

=A large and obnoxious heading=

yields:

A large and obnoxious heading

Large and obnoxious, see?

Tables of Contents

• A page will automatically generate a table of contents if there are four or more headings.
• If you do not wish for your page to have a table of contents, insert the following near the top of your document:

__NOTOC__

• Most pages, like correctly-templated items and adventures, do this automatically.
• If you have fewer than four headings, but wish to have a table of contents nevertheless, place the following where you wish for the table of contents to appear:

__TOC__

File names

• Changes in capitalization causes new pages to be created. Please capitalize items just as they are in Paradox when you look at your inventory or the mall. Do NOT create a new page on an item because you mis-capitalized. It WILL be deleted.

• Do not end a page name with a period, even if the title should have a period. Pages named this way can't be linked to properly, and are difficult to edit, move, or delete. Just don't do it.

• When uploading images, use the same filename for the image as is used in the game. If you receive an error that the file already exists, then it already exists. Do not change the filename of yours.

Categories

• A category should be viewed as an organization mechanism of last resort. If information can be more usefully organized by the use of a page or a table, then that should be the preferred organization mechanism. Contemplated new Categories should be discussed in Proposed Standards. As a general rule of thumb, there should be a strong and meaningful relationship between the elements being categorized.
• When making or editing a page for an item that falls into an obvious category, be sure to put that page into the category. For instance, if you were editing Probably-meat patty, and found it uncategorized, you would put the following at the bottom of the page:

[[Category:Food]]
[[Category:Food (By Fullness)|1, Probably-meat patty]]

The former simply categorizes Probaly-meat patty as a food. The latter categorizes it as a food of one fullness.

• When categorizing pages whose names begin with an article (such as "a" or "the"), specify the page name with the article moved to the end in the category tag. For example, the Adventure page "The Zweit-Childer Mining Site" should be categorized using [[Category:Adventure|Zweit-Childer Mining Site, The]] so it appears under 'Z' instead of 'T'.
• All categories that a page is placed in should be grouped together at the bottom of the page.
• For a complete list of categories, see Special:Categories.

Page Needs Work

Depending on how thorough you have been, other users may need to do additional work on your page. Alert them to what the page needs by putting one of the following codes at the top of the page.

If the page mainly needs formatting work

{{Page/NeedsWork|comment=Insert your comment here}}

If the page is missing information

{{Page/NeedsContent|comment=Insert your comment here}}

In all cases, use your comment to let future editors know what needs to be fixed. Please try to be as specific as you can be.

Sorting

All sections sorted as shown. Any lists that don't have a special reason to be sorted otherwise should be sorted alphabetically.