TV Burp Wiki:Manual of Style: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:45, 24 November 2023

This is TV Burp Wiki's Manual of Style. All users are required to follow these guidelines on how text is written.

Key:
- Correct
- Incorrect

Writing

Language

Because Harry Hill's TV Burp is a British programme, all text is required to be written in British English. Examples of how text is required to be written are below.

Unintentional humour is common on the show.
Unintentional humor is common on the show.

The colours purple and yellow are present in the show's logo.
The colors purple and yellow are present in the show's logo.

This rule does not apply to blog posts, comments, sandboxes, talk pages, and user pages.

Date and time

The date and time can be written in all sorts of ways, but what TV Burp Wiki strongly recommends is either 00:00, December 22nd 2001 or December 22nd 2001, 00:00. Like with the language rules, this does not apply to blog posts, comments, sandboxes, talk pages, and user pages.

WikiText

All WikiText is required to be written like this for pages:

[[Harry Hill]]

and this for external links:

Fandom: [[w:c:wikiname:pagename|pagename]]
- Example: [[w:c:tvburp:Harry's Hill TV Burp|Harry's Hill TV Burp]]
Non-Fandom:
- Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:pagename|pagename]]
  - Example: [[Wikipedia:Harry's Hill TV Burp|Harry's Hill TV Burp]]
- Non-Wikipedia: [link pagename]
  - Example: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352110/ Harry's Hill TV Burp]

File names

All files that are uploaded here are required to have a proper name. When uploading files, always remember to appropriately name them. Videos are automatically named when uploaded.

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-This is {{SITENAME}}'s '''Manual of Style'''. All users should follow these guidelines on how text is written.
+This is [[TV Burp Wiki]]'s '''Manual of Style'''. All users are required to follow these guidelines on how text is written.
 *'''Key:'''
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 === <u>Language</u> ===
-All text should be written in British English and ''not'' American English. Examples of how text should be written are below.
+Because ''[[Harry Hill's TV Burp]]'' is a British programme, all text is required to be written in British English. Examples of how text is required to be written are below.
 * <span style="color: green">Unintentional humour is common on the show.</span>
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 * <span style="color: red">The colors purple and yellow are present in the show's logo.</span>
-Despite this, however, this rule does not apply to user pages, talk pages, comments, and blog posts.
+This rule does not apply to blog posts, comments, sandboxes, talk pages, and user pages.
-=== <u>Date and Time</u> ===
+=== <u>Date and time</u> ===
-The date and time can be written in all sorts of ways, but what TV Burp Wiki recommends is either of these ways:
+The date and time can be written in all sorts of ways, but what {{SITENAME}} strongly recommends is either '''00:00, December 22nd 2001''' or '''December 22nd 2001, 00:00'''. Like with the [[#Language|language rules]], this does not apply to blog posts, comments, sandboxes, talk pages, and user pages.
-* 00:00, December 22nd 2001
-* 00:00, 22nd December 2001
-<center>or</center>
-* December 22nd 2001, 00:00
-* 22nd December 2001, 00:00
-Like the language rules, this does not apply to user pages, talk pages, comments, and blog posts.
 == WikiText ==
-All WikiText should be written like this for pages:
+All WikiText is required to be written like this for pages:
 * <nowiki>[[Harry Hill]]</nowiki>
 and this for external links:
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 == File names ==
-All files that are uploaded here should have a proper name. When uploading files, always remember to appropriately name them.
+All files that are uploaded here are required to have a proper name. When uploading files, always remember to appropriately name them. Videos are automatically named when uploaded.
 [[Category:{{SITENAME}}]]
 [[Category:Policy]]