General Practices Guide

## Syntax

* Use professional language and proper grammar.
	+ An exception can be made in the case of capitalization. If the source material consistently uses specific capitalization (ex: a name written in all lowercase or all upercase), that should come first.
* Unless quoting something from another language, everything should be in English.
* There should be two line breaks between paragraphs.

## Basic Markdown

### Bold

The following markdown results in bolded text:

```
'''Bold text here.'''
```

### Italics

The following markdown results in intalicized text:

```
''Italic text here.'''
```

## Ledes

These are introductory "paragraphs" (usually sentences) describing the article. First, the title of the article is bolded, followed by a short description of the article. Ledes are necessary in **every** main article, no exceptions.

* Ledes follow the infobox of an article. (Or the top quote, if one is present.)
* Subpages do not need ledes.

## Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks should be used whenever information relevant to the wiki exists.

There are two methods of hyperlinking, linking to in-wiki information and linking to information from outside sources. **Outside sources should ALWAYS either be credits for templates and such, or information by etherane.**

The following code demonstrates an in-wiki hyperlink:

```
[[Page Name|Hyperlink Text]]
```

Note that a full link is NOT needed when linking to in-wiki sources, and putting one in anyways makes the code a bit unnecessarily chunky. Also note that, by default, the hyperlink will show up as the page name, so don't add hyperlink text unless you specifically want it to be different than the page name.

Linking to in-wiki categories is a bit different. The following code is an example of what **NOT** to do when linking to an in-wiki category:

```
[[Category:Category Name]]
```

This will result in the page being put in the category listed, rather than linking to the category. Instead, add a ":" at the start, like so, and the link will work correctly:

```
[[:Category:Category name]]
```

For outside-of-wiki sources, here's a demonstration of the code used:

```
[https://yourlinkhere Hyperlink Text]
```

Using two brackets, like for in-wiki sources, will result in brackets appearing in the article, so avoid doing that. It's also important to note that here, a full link *is* needed, and that anything after a space within the brackets will show up as the hyperlink text.

* Do not link to an article within said article. For example, don't link to the Charlotte Wiltshire page in the Charlotte Wiltshire article.
* This is not to be mixed up with references, as shown in the following section. Hyperlinks are used when relevant information exists (for example, if the name Charlotte Wiltshire is used the article, it should hyperlink to Charlotte Wiltshire's page), versus references which instead back up facts or ideas suggested in the wiki.
	+ To put it simply, any time you mention something that there's a relevant link to, add a hyperlink, and anytime you mention information or ideas supported by another source, use a reference.
* Hyperlinks should be used in infoboxes as well as the first mention of the subject within the article (besides the ones in the infoboxes).

## References

References should (generally) be used wherever they are possible, especially when they come from a source outside of the game itself. References should ONLY reference things said or made by etherane or otherwise verified developers of ætherworks, should they exist.

The following code demonstrates the use of a reference:

```
Sentence that uses a reference as support.<ref>Reference link</ref>
```

All that is needed to make the references appear is a references section at the bottom of the page.

* Do not use references at the end
* References do not need to be used when covering the events that happen within a game, unless it is an explanation or observation that was provided outside of the game.
* If a reference exists that sources a link that is no longer functional, **the information should stay**, but the reference should be removed.
* If there exists an image (created by etherane) that can be used as a reference, the image should be used as a reference.
	+ Note that if the source of the image can be referenced instead, that is what should happen. (Ex: if the image exists in a tweet that's still up, link to the tweet, and not the image itself.)

## Sections

If needed, articles should be split into sections and possibly sub-sections.

Sections are defined by headers of varying sizes. Larger headers indicate more general sections, and smaller headers indicate sub-sections within a section.

The following markup results in a header:

```
=Header 1=
```

```
==Header 2==
```

```
===Header 3===
```

The more equal signs added on either side, the smaller the header will be. Both sides should have the same amount of equal signs surrounding the header text.

* A section should mark any text after the lede.
* By default, headers used for sections of an article should use two equal signs.
	+ Headers with one equal sign should be used if there is a signifigant section: for example, a gallery on an item page.
	+ Headers smaller than the second level header should be used only as markers of sub-sections.
* This part of the guide is NOT applicable to gallery pages.
	+ For help understanding how galleries are split, see the Gallery and Images Guide.
* See one of the following to understand how sections are separated.
	+ Game Page Guide
	+ Character Pages Guide
	+ Item Pages Guide
	+ Lore Pages Guide

## Tabbers

Tabbers are used as mini-tabs.

The following code demonstrates an example usage of tabbers:

```
<tabber>
Tab 1=tab content
</tabber>
```