Epic Battle Fantasy Wiki:Style guide

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This is a guide to editing the Epic Battle Fantasy Wiki in accordance with the established style. Editors are advised to follow these guidelines closely in order to prevent their edits from being reverted.

The style guide exists to ensure cross-page consistency, a very important attribute of a wiki. Modifications may be suggested, but bear in mind that the style guide merely lists practices that are widely in use. It is not a means to impose extensive policies or even personal preferences.

Regardless, not all pages may follow the style guide entirely. While that may be due to good reason, it is often caused by the sheer number of pages, some of which have not been touched in a long time. All editors are encouraged to rectify such deviations.

Language

  • Use British English, as this is the language used in the games.
  • If ratios are displayed as a percentage, round to two decimal places (e.g. 1/3 becomes 33.33%).

Page Titles

  • The first letter of each word should be uppercase, with the exception of words such as "and" or "of". Pages in the "Epic Battle Fantasy Wiki:"-namespace (such as the Admin noticeboard) are an exception to this.

Sections

  • The top-level sections used on a page should be == Section ==. Followed by === Subsection ===, ==== Subsubsection ====, and finally ===== Subsubsubsection =====. Notably, = Header = should not be used.
  • Sections should follow the same naming conventions as page titles.

Content

  • All content needs to be factual / non-opinative; Don't use guessing for numbers / facts.

Massive Editing

  • Use the "preview page" feature, and do not spam post edits (constantly updating a page and hitting the "save" button), instead of doing it all in one go.