Help:Editing guide: Difference between revisions

This '''editing guide''', commonly called the '''Guide''', is meant to serve two main purposes: to help new editors get started with improving the Wiki, as well as to provide a comprehensive resource for all editors, regardless of experience, to find answers and resolve editing issues. The Guide should always get the last say whenever there is a dispute between editors to avoid needless conflicts.

== Guidelines ==

In addition to being a grammatically invalid and non-neutral sentence, this ''very'' brief article raises many questions that someone unfamiliar with OWOT might not know the answers to. What is fg? Why do people hate it? Who are textwallers? A better article about this topic would start something like this:

|text='''Fictional googlology''' ('''FG''' or '''fg''') is the niche hobby of assigning {{wp|Unicode}} characters as names for fictional numbers. Fictional googology is common, as well as widely accepted, on [[TextWall]], but it faces near-universal stigmatization among OWOT's users. While fictional googology is meant to be an offshoot of {{wp|Googology|standard googology}}, it is typically regarded by OWOT's users as more of an art project that primarily serves as entertainment for children than a mathematical pursuit. People who engage in fictional googology are known as '''fictional googologists''', '''FGers''', or '''FGists'''.

If you create an article like the one above{{mdash}}with only one paragraph{{mdash}}always remember to use {{tlx|stub}} to mark it as a [[:Category:Stubs|stub]]. Again, articles should be unbiased and neutral, regardless of how the OWOT community feels about the topic.

A final word on orphaned articles: orphaned articles are articles that no other articles link to, making them nearly unreachable and, as such, effectively useless. To ensure all articles are accessible, cross-reference articles and combine smaller articles into larger, more comprehensive ones whenever possible. See {{section link|Our World of Text:State of the Wiki|De-orphaning orphaned articles}} for more ways to de-orphan articles.

Do not use this Wiki for the ''sole'' purpose of messaging other users. Please try to stay on the task of creating a Wiki. You can chat with people about Wiki-related topics on their [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#User talk pages|user talk page]], and should resolve problems with articles on the relevant talk pages, but ''please'' do not take the discussion into [[MW:Manual:Article_count|articles]]. In addition, bear in mind that article talk pages exist solely to discuss how to improve articles; they are not for general discussion about the subject of the article, nor are they a help desk for obtaining instructions or technical assistance. Material unsuitable for talk pages may be subject to removal per the talk page guidelines. OWOT has both a built-in chat and a Discord server; both are better places to chat than this Wiki.

=== Content guidelines ===

While suitable guidelines remain roughly the same with minor variations from article to article, the following are specific guidelines associated with, but not necessarily limited to, certain [[MW:Manual:Article count|articles]] in the [[MW:Help:Namespaces#Main|mainspace]].

 

Use {{tlsx|World}}, save the article, and then start editing again to quickly get a template you can fill in.

 

All Wiki articles about OWOT worlds should be named the partial world URL (slash included), with capitalization matching the official world URL (which can be seen by [[Commands|warping]] to the world). The article on [https://owot.me/main /fp], for example, should be named {{xt|/fp}}, not {{!xt|/FP}}, {{!xt|Fp}}, or {{!xt|Fp's world}}.

 

Use {{tlsx|User}}, save the article, and then start editing again to quickly get a template you can fill in.

==== Functionality ====

All Wiki articles documenting aspects of OWOT's functionality should be in the category [[:Category:Documentation|Documentation]].

| Referring to this Wiki || (This) Wiki, (the) OWOT Wiki, (the) Our World of Text Wiki

| Linking an OWOT world || An external link displaying the partial world URL (slash included) and linking to full URL of the world, which can be created using either using normal [[MW:Help:Links#External links|wiki markup]] or {{tlx|owoturl}} (for example, <code><nowiki>[https://ourworldoftext.com/main /main]</nowiki></code> → [https://ourworldoftext.com/main /main] or {{tlx|owoturl|main}} → {{owoturl|main}})

| Referring to OWOT users || Complete username of user's current main account or most commonly used nickname

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