Manual of style This manual of style is intended to help you write good articles , that will make the IHW good itself . It is still in its first stage , but it should nevertheless give you a good idea of how to write . How to write a biography . Biographies should be written this way : How to write an article about a club , a team or a league . It is very similar to how to write a biography . Categorizing leagues is easier ; regardless of geographical location , they are all categorized under . The category may however be an interesting addition for leagues in Canada , and so on for other leagues of other countries . Templates . Portals . Most , if not all , articles on this site fall into at least one of the portals featured ; therefore , most if not all pages should have a way to indenfy what portal ( s ) they are belonging to . There exists ( or will exist ) a special template for each of these that should be placed at the end of the article , along with most other templates , before the categories section to link it to applying portal ( s ) . For exemple , Peter Forsberg , who is Swedish , falls into the < nowiki > < / nowiki > : Please note that you can link to as many portals as it applies . For exemple , Taro Nihei is a player who was born and trained in Sweden , but of Japan ese descent , who later adopted Japanese nationality to represent Japan in international competitions . Nihei ' s article thus applies to both the Swedish and the Japanese hockey portal s ; therefore , his article will feature both the < nowiki > < / nowiki > and < nowiki > < / nowiki > templates to identify him as such . These templates apply equally to players , teams , leagues and so on . Under construction . When you are in the middle of the process of writing a long article you can ' t create all at once , when you are totally revamping an existing one or when you are creating an article that has been requested ( please see Requesting articles ) using the < nowiki > < / nowiki > template at the top of the page will let the other people , who may be tempted to revert your edits or redo your article in your place in another way than that you planned , or to warn the reader that there are big works in progress and that they may want to consider dropping by at a later time to see a more detailed and better article . Special cases . Two players with the same name . Should two players or hockey persons have the same forenames and lastnames , with the same orthograph , then the initial ( root ) article should be turned into an Homonymy page ( click on the previous link for help on how to do that ) . Then , a new article shall be created for both , following this simple structure : Firstname Lastname ( Birthyear ) . An exemple for this is Artem Anisimov ; two players sharing that name have an article on IHW . This first has his own article at Artem Anisimov ( 1976 ) , while the second has his at Artem Anisimov ( 1988 ) . If those two players had been born on the same year , then their whole birthdate would be included in the brackets ( ex . : June 27th 1976 ) . Each player article must mention the existence of other player ( s ) of the same name and link to the root article . The correct format would be to write in italics at the top of the article " For other players named Artem Anisimov , please see Artem Anisimov " , followed by the tag < nowiki > < HR > < / nowiki > . Text should be centered with the tag < nowiki > < / nowiki > . The homonymy header will look like this : < br > < br > < hr > " For other players named Artem Anisimov , please see Artem Anisimov " . < hr > Two people with the same name . It may happen that , say , a player and a coach , both have the same name . Since they are known for distinct activities within the game , there is no need to distinguish them by birth date ; that ' d actually be more confusing than anything . For this situation , it is best to distinguish the two individuals by their role . For instance , a fictive player named Dietmar Müller and a coach named Dietmar Müller would have their articles named respectively named Dietmar Müller ( player ) and Dietmar Müller ( coach ) . The root article Dietmar Müller would be a homonymy page . Again , both the player ' s and the coach ' s page would have a header linking to the root article ( as described in the previous section ) . Should one of the two people strongly outshine the other ( say , one is a succesful NHLer and the other is an obscure junior coach ) , then the root article Dietmar Müller would be for the player , and Dietmar Müller ( coach ) would still be for the coach ; Dietmar Müller ( disambiguation ) would be the homonymy page in such instance . Distinct teams with the same name . Sometimes , defunct team names are resurected after a while by new franchise owners or when the club moves to a new city . When this happens , an homonymy page shall be created on the main article linking to all the iterations of the team . The article for each of these shall be named after this structure : Team name ( founding year - folding year ) . Of course , the folding year only applies to teams that no longer exist ; should the team still be active , it should rather be ( founding year - present ) . If the same team name is used in more than one league , then the articles can simply be differenciated by putting the league in the brackets . Obviously , each of the separate articles shall have a note at their very top of the page , before the real article begins , mentioning the existence of other teams with the same name and linking to the root article , in case the reader acidentally stumbled upon the wrong article or want to know about that team ' s homonyms . A superb exemple is the Cleveland Barons , the name having been worn by an NHL team and two distinct AHL ones . The main article Cleveland Barons is an homonymy page ; the NHL ' s Barons can be found at Cleveland Barons ( NHL ) , and the AHL sides at Cleveland Barons ( AHL , 1937 - 1973 ) and Cleveland Barons ( AHL , 2001 - 2006 ) . Please note that if the team is not a new team using an old name but well a returning old team who reactivates its old name ( it sometimes happens for teams to become dormant when finances don ' t allow them to keep operating and to return at a better time in the future ) . In this case , since it is the same team , it doesn ' t undergo the naming rule ( unless some other team also used that name ) . Those have a single article . Also , when categorizing players who played for those teams , don ' t forget that categories for these teams bear the same name that their article , therefore , players who played for the second AHL Cleveland Barons fall in the . Leagues with the same name . Just like for teams , sometimes new leagues resurrect that of an older , extinct one . When this happens , an homonymy page must be created for the league name , linking to both leagues with their dates of existence in brackets . Duplicates and good common sense . The broader your look at , the more likely you are to find duplicate names for teams , especially . How many obscure junior team has adopted the name of a major pro one ? When one team eclipses any potential duplicate by its difference of level of play , there is no need to follow the previously mentioned rules . It is chiefly for professional clubs , major and minor ones altogether . For a qualifying junior team with a duplicate name , a simple mention at the very beginning of the main article does the trick perfectly ( of the format " " For the junior team of the same name , please see link to junior team ' s article " , with an horizontal line to separate this note from the article ' s core ) ; the junior team just has to be named along the lines of " Team Name ( Junior ) " . To that level , if two or more junior teams have worn the same name , the rules for duplicate teams apply . Articles from Wikipedia . Wikipedia has been covering ice hockey for a long time and many good articles have been written there . Considering the fact it is a free content encyclopedia , technically , all of the articles over there could be copied / pasted here , though it is not particularly recommanded , as we strive to be different ( and better ! ) from Wikipedia and not just a projet that merely is a simple copy of something that already exists elsewhere . However , should you find across an article that has been copied from Wikipedia , or should really wish to copy one yourself , please pay attention to the following details : This template indicates where the content of the article comes from and credits its original author ( s ) . It should be used on every page that has been taken from Wikipedia , whether in large part or entirely . Categories . Categories have been mentioned several times already in this manual . This is not surprising , as they are very important . Basically , categories allow to classify every article that share a certain characteristic together . For instance , every player who has ever played for the Los Angeles Kings should , once an article about them is written , be given the category . If you click on a category link , you will be led to a page listing every page which have been tagged with this category . It becomes a powerful tool for whoever wants to learn more about that precise aspect of the game . An article , whichever it is , can be given any number of categories , from one to an hypothetic several hundreds , as long as they apply to the article . Of course , you will never see an article with hundreds of categories ! But you will see on several instances articles with some 20 - 30 categories . Those are usually well - travelled players who tend to change team about every season or so . How to decide which category applies . When one begins editing , it may be confusing to decide what categories to give to which article , especially since there are litterally thousands of active categories on this Wiki . However , it is usually very intuitive , and one learns fast what categories to use and not to use . For a player , the first logical category is the one for its nationality ( e . g . ) . The second obvious one is its year of birth ( e . g . ) . Then comes the categories regarding the player ' s resumé . A player has played for eight different teams in his career ? Then that ' s as many categories that should be added ( they all have the format ) . The player was drafted to the NHL ? Another category fits ( ) . Has he won a trophy ? There are categories for that too ( for instance , ) . If the player has retired , then a category named is appropriate . Your player was a former international Austrian player ? There is a category for that too ( ) . Was he an olympian in 1976 to boot ? Tag him with . You get the point . Which category to tag an article with is usually fairly logical and intuitive . Take the time to look at a couple of articles to give yourself an idea of how it ' s done . How to avoid confusion with some categories . There are some categories that may pose a little bit of problems when comes the time to tag articles with . Those refer to particular special cases , which will be discussed here . Special case 1 - renamed teams . In 2006 , the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim were officially renamed the Anaheim Ducks as the team cut all its ties with Disney . This move brought an interrogation related to categories . Should players who played for the Ducks prior to 2006 fall into and those who played for the team after 2006 fall into ? And what about those players who played for the team before and after 2006 , will they have two categories ? The answer is no . It is not logical to have two categories in this case , since the team is the same . There was no folding , no relocating , no complete team roster change - it ' s all the same players , in the same city , in the same franchise , but with a slightly different name . Therefore , it has been decided that there would be a single category kept : . The one factor that decides if there should be two distinct categories or a single one is whether there was a relocation to another city or a folding . The same goes for other teams which , through time , have modified a bit their name without moving . The California Golden Seals , who sported three different names before moving ( California Seals , Oakland Seals and California Golden Seals ) will go into a single category : . In all case , it is the most recent name that is retained . Special case 2 - European teams with varying spellings . This situation can become quite a headache . Should it be EC VSV , VSV EC , Villach SV , Villacher SV , EC Villach SV , EC Villacher SV or the full Eishockey Club Villacher Sportverein ? This is extremely confusing , especially since all of those variations can refer correctly to the same team , and are often indeed used on various sources . There is little concensual rule on this matter ; however , it is preferable to have the name of the town where the team is based written in full . In this case for instance , the retained name has been ; it could have also been EC Villacher SV , for instance . The " add categories " tool at the bottom of the article / editing window is precious to solve this situations . When you start typing the name of the team , you will usually see the concensual designation appear as a suggestion by the tool . You can then simply pick it . This kind of confusion described here is especially present among German and Austrian teams with a name of a form similar to that of Villach above . Sometimes , teams with a name like this are at some point of their history renamed ( without moving - see special case 1 ) , adding to the confusion . Here again , the most recent name prevails on the former ones . For instance , Düsseldorfer EG is nowadays known as the DEG Metro Stars , and therefore , categories should be . Those ambiguous situations do require a basic knowledge on the part of the writer of the naming history of the team , which can be teduous even for the specialists - HK Ryazan has had nine different names through its existence ! ! Not so many people would know that Krasnoye Znamya Ryazan was the name of team from 1959 to 1962 and many would create a new category , thinking of a different team . Do a quick search before typing a category name in this kind of case . Here again , use the subsection of the editing window alloted to categories , as when you type something , a list of matching categories will appear . Try typing the name of the town the team is based in . If what appears fits , use it . If in doubt , please do further researching on the internet or ask someone else who works on European hockey articles on this wiki ( such as ) .