Style guide

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This is a guide to editing the Void Crew Wiki in accordance with the established style. It describes accepted and established practices for Void Crew Wiki. Editors are advised to follow these guidelines closely in order to prevent their edits from being reverted.

The style guide exists to ensure cross-page consistency, a very important attribute of a wiki. Modifications may be suggested, but bear in mind that the style guide merely lists practices that are widely in use. It is not a means to impose extensive policies or even personal preferences.

Regardless, not all pages can follow the style guide entirely. While that may be due to good reason (which should then, in non-obvious cases, be marked, e.g. with a comment), it is often caused by the sheer number of pages, some of which have not been touched in a long time. All editors are encouraged to rectify such deviations.

Language

Use American English, as this is the official language used in-game.

If ratios are displayed as a percentage, round to two decimal places (e.g. 1/3 becomes 33.33%).

Page Titles

The first letter of each word should be uppercase, with the exception of words such as "and" or "of". Pages in the "Void Crew Wiki:"-namespace (such as the Admin noticeboard) are an exception to this.

Sections

The top-level sections used on a page should be == Section ==. Followed by === Subsection ===, ==== Subsubsection ====, and finally ===== Subsubsubsection =====. Notably, = Header = should not be used.

Sections should follow the same naming conventions as page titles.

Case usage in template names

In Template name, the first letter of each word should be uppercase.

Content

All content should be factual / non-opinative; Don't use guessing for numbers / facts without supporting data or base for it.

Tips

All tips and recommendations should go on Void Crew Tips, tricks and strategies.

Experimental

Content that is part of a future update (not part of Live version yet) should only be shown using the WIP sub-pages.

Massive editing (...to be avoided)

Use the "preview page" feature, to not spam post edits (constantly updating a page and hitting the "save" button), instead of doing it all in one go. Otherwise, there is a risk of unnessarily spamming and overloading moderators.

References

References are usually small, numbered footnotes like this.[1]
They should be either directly following the fact that they support, before any punctuation or at the end of the sentence they support following any punctuation.

Translations

To translate a page, use the proper wiki for that language, NOT the main wiki.

Trivia

All Trivia should be about game's history or references, not about bugs , and neither about how the game works internally.