Project:Style Guide

From Pluralpedia, the collaborative plurality dictionary

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.

For Oneself

Personal credits (for writing or editing pages, for example) are not permitted on this wiki. This is not for anyone's personal gain. It is also for keeping things completely impersonal.

Technical

Image Formatting: 1 Image

Use the format [[file:image name.ext|thumbnail|description]] for adding a singular image to a page, like one flag.

Image Formatting: 2 Images

A gallery is recommended if a term has two flags, for example. This is formatted differently: [gallery mode="packed"]<br> filename.ext|description<br> file2name.ext|description<br> [/gallery]

Thank you for reading! This keeps this project cohesive. Any suggestions to a page like this (including rules or DELETION GUIDE should be directed to the Discord server for discussing crucial pages, which can be found here.