RRU Knowledge Base:Guidelines

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Any good programmer will tell you that one of the best things you can do for yourself and others is to have a consistent, nicely formatting code style to abide by. In the same manner, a wiki should be written using consistent formatting and alike writing style, so as it would appear as if it has been written by a single author.

For the rest of this article, I will be taking you through some of the RRU Wiki writing guidelines. These guidelines are in place to improve your writing and the Wiki as a whole, not hinder it. Some of these guidelines should be kept at all times, while others are strongly recommended. This difference will be noted when applicable. :)

General Guidelines

• Always write in third person perspective. This means you should not use personal pronouns such as I, me, and myself.
• Be objective when writing. Do not include person preference, opinion, or bias when writing. If you disagree about something on a page, use its Talk Page to discuss and debate it. Do not start an edit war by persistently adding your opinion to the page. Opinions are allowed on your user profile, however.
• Write in American English and follow proper spelling and grammar rules at all times. Although the RRU Wiki is an international Wiki, this is an English speaking Wiki and most of the user base is from America. If you cannot write in English well, use an automatic translator such as Google Translate to convert your writing to English. Chances are someone else more fluent in English will pick it up and help improve it. :)
• Do not use contractions, slang, jargon, or any form of swearing or cursing. Ever. This sort of language is both unprofessional and frowned upon, and makes the entire page look bad. Further more, we strive to be a child-friendly Wiki, and inappropriate language is neither tolerated nor acceptable.
• Do Not Write Like This. This Creates An Awkwardly Written Sentence. Always Follow Proper Capitalization Rules.
• Use the PNG image format when possible. PNG images are generally of much quality than JPG images.

Mods

• When uploading images related to your mod, please prefix them with the name of your mod to avoid using common file names. For example, instead of name my file Loading.jpg, which is rather generic and may be overwritten easily, I would name it le717sModLoadingScreen.jpg, assuming the name of my mod is "le717's Mod".