Project:Style Guide

Introduction
For ease of access, Pluralpedia promotes some standard formatting, crediting, and other conventions. Because this is a public-access project, nothing will be perfect, but adherence to this guide is greatly appreciated!

Templates
Here are some very handy pre-made pages to use when adding new terms.

For Terms
See this template for entering new terminology into the wiki.

For Categories
See TEMPLATE LINK for creating new categories.

Consent
Not all systems want their labels, flags, or terminology in these sorts of projects. Please respect this! Many experiences are personal, and adding such closed terms into the public consciousness is violating a system's consent. When in doubt, do not add a term.

Word Choice
Another part of consistency is language. Beyond using proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling, here are some guidelines.

Pronouns
Personal pronouns (you, I, we, us, my) are not recommended. This is an objective, abstract collection of terminology. Sometimes these are unavoidable, though.

Referring to System Members
To keep this wiki inclusive, the term "alter" and "part" are not to be used when describing a member of a system when not on specific pages. "Headmate" is the preferred way to refer to them.

Medical vs. Community Terminology
This project is meant to encompass all plurality-related definitions and descriptors. As such, both medical (alter and specific diagnoses) and community-created (mesosian, for example) labels will be listed and supported.

Tone
All good-faith identifiers must be treated with respect. Even if an individual disagrees with the term, editors here are simply messengers, not judges. Please do not put personal influence into definitions.

Credits
This is arguably the most important of this project: proper citations. Always keep links handy!

For Terms
If one can be found, links to coining posts on Tumblr, Amino, or other sites must be included. Earlier projects similar to this one struggled with proper accreditation. Sometimes, older terms can be harder to track down. That's fine! Citing sites like did-research.org or traumadissociation for medical terminology is acceptable.

For Flags
When uploading flags, Mediawiki (this program) lets users change the file name when uploading. In the new file name, please add the creator's system name or other identifying label to it. In the description of the file, please add the link there, as well as in the thumbnail or gallery description.