Stargate FanProd:Manual of style

This page help you to write good articles in Stargate FanProd encyclopedia.

Editing

See also: Help:Editing

Layout guide

All articles should be structured as follows:

1. Infobox (Category:Infobox)

2. Main article

3. See also

4. External links

5. References

6. Navigation box (in Category:Navbox)

7. Categories

Note that not all articles use every section.

List

Simple list

For a simple litany in an article use:

:1. Your text
:2. Your text

For other list use: *

* Your text

List tables

• For production list, use a similar table structure as List of Podcasts.
• For episodes list, use the same table structure as List of GateWorld Podcast episodes.

Links

Interwiki links

Main article: Help:Interwiki link

If you need to link to articles not included in this encyclopedia (wikipedia or stargate.wikia), use the interwiki links.

To link to Wikipedi use [[wikipedia:pagename|pagename]]
To link to Stargate Wiki use {{SGC|article name at Stargate.wikia.com}}

External links

*[webpage link webpage title] complement of informations

Note: there is a space character between webpage link and webpage title.

References

For reliable information, you can cite your sources.

Source data

To reference an information use:
<ref name=tag of the reference>[website link with http title of the website link] ''website name'' (date)</ref>
The name variable is only necessary if this source is cited several time in the same article. In this case use only for next citation:
<ref name=tag of the reference/>

Example:

<ref>[http://www.gateworld.net/news/2008/07/gateworld_kicks_off_weekly_podca.shtml GateWorld kicks off weekly podcast] ''gateworld.net'' (July 15, 2008)</ref>.

Reference list

When text is sourced in an article, show the reference list with {{Ref}} tag.

Example:

This tag, with the reference from the exemple above, give:

References
1. ↑ GateWorld kicks off weekly podcast gateworld.net (July 15, 2008)

Categories

Categories order

Respect the categories order in your articles.

For Fan production articles:

1. Years

2. Languages

3. Country

4. related Series (for Fan fiction)

5. Status

6. Fan fiction or Fandom production types

7. Own production category if necessary

Example:

Category: 2005 - English - Translated in French - USA - Stargate SG-1 - Parody - Work in progress - Fan movie - GateWorld

For other articles:

1. Enciclopedic types

2. Own production category

Example:

Category: People - List - GateWorld

Images

See also: Help:Images

When you upload an image, edit the related description page to include in the first line the link to the page where the image is used (this feature is necessary for provide a description in the Random Image in the Main Page.

Categorize also the images:

[[Category:production type image]] where the production type is for example paper model.

See also

• Category:Help