Fangs Wiki:General conventions

Content

 * All content should adhere to intelligent standards of English (essentially, standards that should be expected of a mature young adult): Full sentences must be utilized. Users should always use correct grammar, punctuation and spelling, and appropriate writing conventions such as the proper use of paragraphs. The titles must use correctly spelled words, without abbreviations or internet slang (especially smileys), and should never use all-caps.
 * Make sure you read-proof your edits using the preview function, rather than after publishing the edit, thus to avoid further edit revisions. This may be excepted if the edit includes templates or modules, and a purge or null-edit is needed afterwards to correctly view the changes.
 * If you add references, download the wayback machine add-on, or just go to web.archive, and save the page there to then link the reference to it instead. The snapshot allows the note to stand more tight, in case the original page would ever get changed, or the page would ever get deleted, which in many years it's something that's increasingly likely to happen (similar to what happened with the league of legends boards and websites for example).
 * If a note is wrong and is without reference, do not directly assume that is has always been wrong. The game, or whatever the note was about, is likely to change without notice, either intentionally or unintentionally. Because of that, do update the note, but also try to look in the edit history of the page to see who added it in the first place and get a feeling of how correct he thought the info was. If it's confirmed that the note was once correct, try to look in the patch history or search through the net for more info, to then estimate on the patch history when it might have changed.

Categories

 * Each page must be linked to a category by putting  at the end of the page. Categories are like folders, where each page on the wiki can be found. This allows the articles to be more organized. You can put a Category inside a Category the same way you can put folders inside other folders. The root folder is found at Category:Fangs_Wiki.
 * Categories must be in a branch "tree" shape, i.e no multiple categories on the same page.
 * No main categories on user and blog pages.

Media

 * Official media of higher quality can replace older ones. However, official media may not be artificially improved or changed, i.e by enhancing the colors levels, shading, brightness, contrast, resolution or original ratio (unless they can benefit from cropping).
 * Official .PNG files may replace .JPG ones.
 * Media uploaded to be used only on User and blog pages should be limited, follow the format  and include the Category:Personal files. Excessive media may be removed with the user warned. If possible always try to use official media already uploaded.

Newcomers
It is important to be patient with newcomers, who will be unfamiliar with the wiki's culture and rules, but may nonetheless turn out to be valuable contributors.

A newcomer's behavior probably seems appropriate to him/her, and a problem in that regard usually indicates unawareness or misunderstanding of Fangs Wiki culture. It is not uncommon for a newcomer to believe that an unfamiliar practice should be changed to match their notion of how things should function, especially if they notice that there is already some level of disagreement over the practice in question. Similarly, many newcomers want to have their contributions to articles accepted without question, especially those which pertain to subjects on which they have extensive knowledge. Behaviors arising from these perspectives, while possibly misguided, are usually not malicious and should not be treated as such. Many new users who lack an intuitive grasp of our customs are gradually brought around, once the logic behind these customs are made aware to them.


 * See also
 * Project:Wiki rules