Style Guide

This style guide will outline the standards for creating new articles and editing existing ones. Adhering to this guide will keep all articles on the wiki consistent and easy to read and navigate. While we strive not to tamper with your content, please do not be offended if your articles are amended slightly to fit in with the guidelines.

## Naming your page

Your new page should be named as clearly and concisely as possible. For example, if you wanted to create a page about the ShuttleMetro, it should be named simply "ShuttleMetro". If your subject goes by multiple names or is often known by an abbreviation, you should choose its proper name. You will be able to set up redirects that point towards the true page on your topic.

### Redirects

If your subject goes by multiple names, do not duplicate your article onto multiple pages. Your article should be centralised for consistency and ease of editing. For example, the proper name of the city of Noxburgh is the Combined District of Noxburgh and Bibbinghaben, and this should be the main article on the topic. However, most people simply know it as Noxburgh, so the Noxburgh page can be set up to automatically point users towards the proper page, using the redirect command.

## Infoboxes

The majority of pages should feature an infobox; this is the portion of a page that gives a quick overview of the page's content. There are a few pre-designed infoboxes available for most types of article on the List of Useful Templates page. Simply select the appropriate infobox, copy the syntax into your page's source editor, and fill out as many fields as are appropriate.

## Headings

The visual editor features a selection of headings in different sizes. These are useful for breaking your article down into manageable chunks. For example:

## "Heading" is used for completely separate sections of your article, such as history, builds, and trivia

### "Sub-heading 1" is good for breaking each section into smaller topics, such as early history, the golden age, and the fall of the kingdom

#### "Sub-heading 2" is for even more specific topics, such as a specific event that triggered a golden age

This is the standard paragraph text size. The bulk of your content should be written like this

##### "Sub-heading 3" is slightly smaller than standard text. It should not be used to split up the bulk of your content

###### "Sub-heading 4" is very small. There is very little reason to use this text size

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Selecting "preformatted" will place your text into a grey box like this one. This is useful for information in a different context to the surrounding text, such as real-world information in an otherwise in-game section. It is also useful for showing wiki templates without showing the result, enabling the formatting to be displayed.

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> The "block quote" text style is slightly larger than the standard text size, and is good for making a quote stand out on your page
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## Images

Images can be inserted individually within your article, but this should be done sparingly. A page should not have inset images that run down the page, leaving the body of text behind. If you need to add multiple images to your article, you should insert a gallery, preferably under a "heading" or "sub-heading 1" which titles it. Galleries can feature multiple images with captions, and the captions can include links to other pages.

## Links

For quick and easy navigation through the wiki, pages can be linked by adding two square brackets around the name of a page, like this:

```
[[MCParradox]]

```

Links are used to quickly gain reference information about something being used in writing in your article. They should be placed on the first instance of the subject name in a particular section of your article, but should not be repeated every time the subject is referenced within that section. Repeat links are allowed in different sections of your article, separated by headers.

Links do not have to exactly match the name of the article they are linking to. For exampe:

```
[[MCParradox|Sam]]

```

The template above will create a link to the page "MCParradox", but the displayed text will simply read Sam. It looks like this. Sam

## Text quality

Articles should be written in proper English, using correct grammar and complete sentences. Bullet points are acceptable in the right context, but an article should not simply be a collection of notes on a topic.

## Navboxes

Navboxes for the wiki are currently under construction. They will be placed at the end of an article, and are used to join together multiple articles within a single subject. For example, ShuttleMetro stations will be grouped together in a navbox.

## Categories

Categories are used to sort articles into groups of pages about similar topics. Pages are automatically added into categories based on the infobox used, and other templates throughout the page. Additional categories can and should be added automatically, by clicking "add category" at the bottom of a page. Some common categories are listed below, sorted by type of page.

### Users

* Supporters
* Founding Members
* Helpers
* Server Staff

### Locations

* Outposts
* Towns
* Major Settlements
* Natural Features
	+ Oceans
	+ Forests
	+ Mountains
	+ Rivers
	+ Lakes

### Builds

* Houses
	+ Mansions
	+ Estates
* Town Halls
* Shops
* ShuttleMetro Stations
* ShuttleMetro Lines
* Statues
* Vehicles

### Companies

* Corporations
* Clubs
* Shops
* Councils

### Items

* Food
* Luxuries

This is not an exhaustive list of categories, and users are free to add their own and use others that they come accross.