RuneScape:WikiGuilds/Proposals/RS Newspaper/RuneScape Wiki Post/Style guide

This style guide has the simple purpose of making the RuneScape Wiki Post easy to read by establishing a certain format. Reading the style guide is important to ensure that each user's edits will be consistent with those of other users.

General guidelines
For a more comprehensive guideline, see the Style guide for RuneScape Wiki.


 * Related to RuneScape
 * All contributions must be related to RuneScape, RuneScape Wiki, or its community.
 * Grammar
 * Capitalisation
 * Ensure the in-game capitalisation is used, and proper capitalisation is observed at all times. For more information, see Title style.
 * Punctuation
 * Make sure proper punctuation is used. See Punctuation style for more information.
 * British spelling
 * "colour" instead of "color"
 * "artefact" instead of "artifact"
 * "south-east" instead of "southeast"
 * "Counter-attack" instead of "counterattack"
 * Abbreviations and RuneScape jargon
 * "Dragon longsword" instead of "D long"
 * "Woodcutting Yew trees" instead of "Cutting yews"
 * "experience" instead of "XP"
 * PG-rated
 * Avoid adult material, hate- or violence-oriented themes.
 * Must not have insulting, obscene, degrading tone.
 * Must not contain profanity.
 * Edited and proof-read
 * Ensure that your contributions has been approved by the editors of the RuneScape Wiki Post.

Image guidelines
All images used in the RuneScape Wiki Post should either be:
 * Existing images in the wiki, or
 * Uploaded to image hosting sites (such as Photobucket or Imageshack).

If images are uploaded into the wiki for the use in the RuneScape Wiki Post, they might be deleted.

Sub-page structure
Articles for the "Water Cooler", "Editorials", and "Fan Fiction" sections, and comics for the "Comics and Classifieds" section should be added as sub-pages at the relevant pages.

The general sub-page structure is as follows: RuneScape:WikiGuild/Proposals/RS Newspaper/RuneScape Wiki Post/issue/section/title

where: issue  = issue number (i.e. 04/05/06) section = Fan Fiction, Comics and Classifieds, Editorials, etc.   title   = title of article/comic

Template
To add an article/comic to the section page, use this template:

Authorship
An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created.

Although there is a wiki-wide policy not to sign articles in articles, authors are allowed to include their name or signature in their contributions to the RuneScape Wiki Post.

The policy does not apply for two reasons:
 * The article/comic is the contribution of a single author.
 * Other users will be able to gauge the performance of the author for future work.

Articles
Authors may include the following at the beginning of the article: Written by: Example

Or, they may choose to sign at the end of the article using: ~

Comics
Authors may choose to include their name/signature at the end of the comic strip, or at the beginning of the page just below the header.

Polls
Each contributing author must include a poll at the end of the article/comic. The reason is for other users to determine the quality of the contribution.

How was this article? It was good. It was bad.

For more information about adding polls, see Help:Poll.

Water Cooler

 * Must be an original article written by the author.
 * Must be written in a neutral point of view.

Editorials

 * Must be an original article written by the author.
 * Must be informative and share your unique point of view.
 * Try to include tips, strategies, techniques, analysis, opinions, and commentary.

Fan Fiction

 * Must be an original story written by the author.
 * Must be related to RuneScape.
 * Must not: contain adult material, hate- or violence-oriented themes; have insulting, obscene, degrading tone, or contain profanity.

Comics

 * Must be an original comic created by the author.
 * Must be related to RuneScape.
 * Must not: contain adult material, hate- or violence-oriented themes; have insulting, obscene, degrading tone, or contain profanity.

Classifieds

 * Must be an original advertisement by the user.
 * Must inform others of the services provided by the user (i.e. Item Lending, signature making, etc.)
 * Must contain a link to the userpage, user talk page, or user sub-page.
 * May contain user's signature, images, personal motto, and other additional details relevant to the advertisement.

Interviews

 * Must be an interview with someone from the RuneScape Wiki community.
 * Interviewee must be at least 13 years old.
 * Questions may include details about the user in RuneScape Wiki, RuneScape.
 * If questions involve asking the user details about their real life, make sure the interviewee gives permission.