TV Burp Wiki:Manual of Style: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:33, 4 September 2025

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 programme.
Unintentional humor is common on the program.

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

This rule does not apply to 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 prefers is either 00:00, December 22nd 2001 or December 22nd 2001, 00:00. Like with the language rules, this does not apply to talk pages and user pages.

Wikitext

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

[[Harry Hill]]

and this for external links:

WikiOasis: [[wo:wikiname:pagename|pagename]]
- Example: [[wo:tvburp:Harry's Hill TV Burp|Harry's Hill TV Burp]]
Non-WikiOasis:
- Wikipedia: [[w:pagename|pagename]]
  - Example: [[w: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]

Filenames

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

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 * <span style="color: red">The colors purple and yellow are present in the program's logo.</span>
-This rule does not apply to blog posts, comments, sandboxes, talk pages, and user pages.
+This rule does not apply to talk pages and user pages.
 === <u>Date and time</u> ===
-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.
+The date and time can be written in all sorts of ways, but what {{SITENAME}} strongly prefers is either '''00:00, December 22nd 2001''' or '''December 22nd 2001, 00:00'''. Like with the [[#Language|language rules]], this does not apply to talk pages and user pages.
 == Wikitext ==
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 * <nowiki>[[Harry Hill]]</nowiki>
 and this for external links:
-* Fandom: <nowiki>[[w:c:wikiname:pagename|pagename]]</nowiki>
+* WikiOasis: <nowiki>[[wo:wikiname:pagename|pagename]]</nowiki>
-** Example: <nowiki>[[w:c:tvburp:Harry's Hill TV Burp|Harry's Hill TV Burp]]</nowiki>
+** Example: <nowiki>[[wo:tvburp:Harry's Hill TV Burp|Harry's Hill TV Burp]]</nowiki>
-* Non-Fandom:
+* Non-WikiOasis:
-** Wikipedia: <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:pagename|pagename]]</nowiki>
+** Wikipedia: <nowiki>[[w:pagename|pagename]]</nowiki>
-*** Example: <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Harry's Hill TV Burp|Harry's Hill TV Burp]]</nowiki>
+*** Example: <nowiki>[[w:Harry's Hill TV Burp|Harry's Hill TV Burp]]</nowiki>
 ** Non-Wikipedia: <nowiki>[link pagename]</nowiki>
 *** Example: <nowiki>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352110/ Harry's Hill TV Burp]</nowiki>
 == Filenames ==
-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.
+All files that are uploaded here are required to have a proper name. When uploading files, always remember to appropriately name them.
 [[Category:{{SITENAME}}]]
 [[Category:Policy]]