VassarWiki:Guidelines: Difference between revisions

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* 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.

* 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")

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* 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]]").

* generally not include "Vassar". Given that the page is on VassarWiki, that much is implied! The exception is when "Vassar" is an indispensable part of the subject's name (e.g. "[[Vassar Students Association]]" isn't referred to as "Students Association").

=== Categories ===

* Categories should be nested whenever possible. For example, [[:Category:A cappella groups|''Category:A cappella groups'']] should be part of [[:Category:Student ~~orgs|~~''~~Category:Student orgs'']]~~ and ''[[:Category:A cappella]].''

* Categories should be nested whenever possible. For example, [[:Category:A cappella groups|''Category:A cappella groups'']] should be part of ''[[:Category:Student groups]]'' and ''[[:Category:A cappella]].''

* Page should only use the most specific categories possible. For example, ''[[Vastards]]'' should be in ''Category:A cappella groups'', not ''Category:Student orgs'' or ''Category:A cappella''.

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 * 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.
+* 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")
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 * 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]]").
+* generally not include "Vassar". Given that the page is on VassarWiki, that much is implied! The exception is when "Vassar" is an indispensable part of the subject's name (e.g. "[[Vassar Students Association]]" isn't referred to as "Students Association").
 === Categories ===
-* Categories should be nested whenever possible. For example, [[:Category:A cappella groups|''Category:A cappella groups'']] should be part of [[:Category:Student orgs|''Category:Student orgs'']] and ''[[:Category:A cappella]].''
+* Categories should be nested whenever possible. For example, [[:Category:A cappella groups|''Category:A cappella groups'']] should be part of ''[[:Category:Student groups]]'' and ''[[:Category:A cappella]].''
 * Page should only use the most specific categories possible. For example, ''[[Vastards]]'' should be in ''Category:A cappella groups'', not ''Category:Student orgs'' or ''Category:A cappella''.