Standards and Formats
From SFeditors
Standards and formats improve the readability and usability of a site by giving it a consistent appearance and structure. Please follow the standards indicated here.
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[edit] Name conventions for page titles
- The name used for an editor should be the name under which the editor most often appears in publication. The presumption is that this is how the editor wishes to be listed. Nicknames and variations of a name should be redirected to the primary published name.
- Similarly the name used for a publisher or imprint should be the name as it appears in the front matter or catalog listing of a book.
[edit] Bibliographic conventions
- Book and magazine titles should be listed in italics.
- Short story titles should be indicated with quotation marks around the title. Titles of teleplays and television episodes should similarly be indicated with quotation marks.
- Reprints of earlier publications should be indicated with the word "reprint". Preferably the date and publisher of the previous edition should be indicated as well.
- Dates should indicate the whole year -- 1981 as opposed to '81.
[edit] Page formatting
- The first sentence of each page should lead off with the topic of the page named in bold.
- Headers and subheaders should be in sentence case: the first word should be capitalized and subsequent words should be in lowercase unless they are part of a title or proper name, e.g. World Fantasy Award winners.
[edit] Categories
- Category names should be in sentence case: the first word should be capitalized and subsequent words should be in lowercase unless they are part of a title or proper name, e.g. World Fantasy Award winners, just like headers.
- People who are no longer living should be added to the Category:Deceased and their birth and death year should be indicated in parentheses at the top of the page right after their name, e.g. Jay Smith (1923-1987). Giving specific dates is nice but the years should be considered a minimum.
- Categories should be plural, e.g. Editors, or an adjective that can be applied both to the singular and the plural, e.g. Deceased.
