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Guidelines are records of best practices in content and behavior. While there is no need to be an expert on guidelines when starting out, contributors should generally defer to and attempt to follow them. They should not be confused for policies.

Inclusion

Vassar people who are still alive should not have pages of their own.
For subjects with Wikipedia pages, take care to not duplicate information. Try to include information that would be relevant for the Vassar community, rather than the audience of a general-purpose encyclopedia. (Also, place Template:Wikipedia at the top of the page.)
Main pages should have (or have the potential for) more information than the grouping of other pages. This is the role of categories.

Style

If not specified otherwise below, contributors should default to AP Style.

The Oxford comma should always be used.
Punctuation around quotations should follow logical/British quotation style; i.e. all punctuation that is not part of the material being quoted should be placed outside of the quotation marks.
Dates should be written without ordinal suffixes (e.g. "May 30", not "May 30th")

Titles

This section regards titles of pages of all types, as well as headings. Titles should...

reflect the common name of the subject (e.g. Deece not Gordon Commons).
be written in sentence case.
not begin with "the", even when "the" is commonly used before the subject's name.
generally not include "Vassar". Given that the page is on VassarWiki, that much is implied! The exception is when "Vassar" is an essential part of the subject's name (e.g. "Vassar Students Association").

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 '''[[VassarWiki:Guidelines|Guidelines]]''' are records of best practices in content and behavior. While there is no need to be an expert on guidelines when starting out, contributors should generally defer to and attempt to follow them. They should not be confused for [[VassarWiki:Policies|policies]].
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 * Vassar people who are still alive should not have pages of their own.
-* For subjects with Wikipedia pages, take care to not duplicate information. Try to include information that would be relevant for the Vassar community, rather than the audience of a general-purpose encyclopedia. (Also, use [[Template:Wikipedia]].)
+* For subjects with Wikipedia pages, take care to not duplicate information. Try to include information that would be relevant for the Vassar community, rather than the audience of a general-purpose encyclopedia. (Also, place [[Template:Wikipedia]] at the top of the page.)
+* Main pages should have (or have the potential for) more information than the grouping of other pages. This is the role of [[VassarWiki:Categories|categories]].
 == Style ==
+If not specified otherwise below, contributors should default to [[Wikipedia:AP Style|AP Style]].
+* The [[Wikipedia:Oxford comma|Oxford comma]] should always be used.
+* Punctuation around quotations should follow [[Wikipedia:Logical quotation|logical/British quotation style]]; i.e. all punctuation that is not part of the material being quoted should be placed outside of the quotation marks.
+* Dates should be written without ordinal suffixes (e.g. "May 30", ''not'' "May 30th")
 === Titles ===
 This section regards titles of pages of [[:Category:Page types|all types]], as well as headings. Titles should...
+* reflect the common name of the subject (e.g. ''[[Deece]]'' not [[Gordon Commons|''Gordon Commons'']]).
 * be written in sentence case.
-* generally not include "Vassar"—given that the page is on VassarWiki, that much is implied! The exception is when "Vassar" is an essential part of the subject's name (e.g. "[[Vassar Students Association]]").
 * not begin with "the", even when "the" is commonly used before the subject's name.
+* generally not include "Vassar". Given that the page is on VassarWiki, that much is implied! The exception is when "Vassar" is an essential part of the subject's name (e.g. "[[Vassar Students Association]]").
 === Categories ===