Electrosphere:Naming conventions
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Naming conventions is a list of guidelines on how to appropriately create and name pages.
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[edit] Starting a Page
- Use Search to see whether someone has written a similar page before you start one yourself.
- See whether a separate page is justified; perhaps it is better to add the text to a related page (especially if the text is not very long); that page can always be split later, after it has grown.
[edit] Starting a page from an existing link
It is highly recommended to start a page from an existing link. (These so-called "ghost links" or "red links" are links that have been made in the text, but for which no article currently exists.) If you want, you can create a link in the sandbox.
Red links take you directly to the edit mode of the non-existing page, which allows creating it, just like editing a blank page.
- Before following the edit link, decide whether you want to give the new page the suggested name. If not, first edit the link on the referring page.
- If you'd like to follow-up on your article after you've created it, we suggest you to create an account before creating it.
[edit] Starting a page through the URL
An easy way to produce a new URL is editing the last part of the URL of another page in Electrosphere.
- The base URL is http://www.editthis.info/electrosphere
Be careful that you don't accidentally create your page in another namespace by accident: any page title that begins with Electrosphere:, User:, Talk: or Template: is in another namespace, and you probably don't want to create it there. Start from the Main Page for best results.
- Do not create articles in the Category: namespace. Edit in a brief description and create appropriate sub-categories only.
[edit] Choosing a page name
[edit] Nations
In Electrosphere, nation pages should be exactly the same as used in Ace Combat.
The nation name does not include the pre-title. Only the part after the of is the nation name. If you create The Federal Republic of Estovakia, one of the wiki community will move it to Estovakia.
[edit] Characters
Use the most common name of a person that does not conflict with the names of other people. "Jean-Louis" may well be unique, but "Marcus" would conflict between Marcus Snow and Marcus Lampart.
[edit] Prefer spelled-out phrases to acronyms
Avoid the use of acronyms in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its acronym and is widely known and used in that form (NASA and radar are good examples).
[edit] Be careful with special characters
Some special characters either cannot be used or can but cause problems. For example you should not use a piping character (|), an asterisk (*), a plus sign (+), curly braces ({}), or square braces ([]) in a name.
The following characters are not allowed in page titles:
" # $ * + < > = @ [ ] \\ ^ ` { } | ~
Titles should not include a colon except in specific circumstances, as when creating a new Template or Help page. Colons indicate namespaces, and incorrect useage can interfere with some aspects of the wiki code.
[edit] Lowercase second and subsequent words
Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is a proper noun (such as a name) or is otherwise almost always capitalized.
[edit] Names are case-sensitive
The first character of a Electrosphere page will always be capitalised and may be linked in either Upper or lower case, but other than that, case makes a difference.
- Ace Combat will not link to the same page as Ace combat (unless someone created a redirect to it)
Note that even the file name extension of an image is case-sensitive. flag.jpg is not the same as flag.JPG.
- Please don't edit the red links on this page. Thanks.
