VassarWiki:Guidelines

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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.
Articles should have (or have the potential for) more information than the grouping of other pages. This is the role of categories.

Content

Include information that would be relevant for the Vassar community, rather than the audience of a general-purpose encyclopedia. See VassarWiki:An encyclopedia and more
Take care to not duplicate information. If the subject of a page has a Wikipedia page, place Template:Wikipedia at the top.

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

Titles of pages (all types) and headings should...

reflect the common name of the subject (e.g. Deece not Gordon Commons).
be written in sentence case when not a proper noun.
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 indispensable part of the subject's name (e.g. "Vassar Students Association" isn't referred to as "Students Association").

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