Article titles and headings[]
Article titles[]
- Capitalize the initial letter, but otherwise follow sentence case (Tour bus), not title case (Tour Bus), except where title case would be used in ordinary prose (Red Thread Games).
- Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Crew, not The crew), unless they would otherwise change the meaning or be capitalized in running text. The articles needlessly lengthen article titles, and interfere with sorting and searching.
Section headings[]
Section headings should generally follow the guidance for article titles, and should be presented in sentence case (Physical abilities), not title case (Physical Abilities).
Varieties of English[]
All articles should be written in American English to reflect the setting of Dustborn.
Punctuation[]
Commas[]
In geographical references that include multiple levels of subordinate divisions (e.g., city, state/province, country), a comma separates each element and follows the last element unless followed by terminal punctuation or a closing parenthesis.
Grammar[]
Pronouns[]
First-person pronouns[]
To maintain an objective and impersonal encyclopedic voice, an article should never refer to its editors or readers using I, my, we, us, our, or similar words.
Second-person pronouns[]
Avoid addressing the reader using you or your, which sets an inappropriate tone.
- Use a noun or a third-person pronoun: instead of When you move past "Go", you collect $200, use A player passing "Go" collects $200, or When a player passes "Go", they collect $200.
- If a person cannot be specified, or when implying "anyone" as a subject, the impersonal pronoun one may be used: a sense that one is being watched. Other constructions may be preferable if the pronoun one seems stilted: a person's sense of being watched.
- Do not bait links, e.g., "Click here for more information"; let the browser's normal highlighting invite a click.
Vocabulary[]
Contractions[]
Avoid contractions, which have little place in formal writing. For example, write do not instead of don't. Use of o'clock is an exception.
Layout[]
Game characters[]
For the articles on the characters of Dustborn, a History section should precede Personality and Abilities to ease the reader into discovering the character and minimize spoilers. The section headings have not been established as hard requirements, however, the order should be respected for consistency.