STOWiki:Guidelines

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A STOWiki guideline refers to the etiquette and common practice observed involving the creation, editing, and management of articles on STOWiki to make management and presentation more consistent and streamlined. Guidelines are not generally enforced by other users or admins, unlike policies.

Guidelines include ways of organizing information and creating and using shared resources such as categories and templates. Many articles in the STOWiki category are guidelines.

Examples of STOWiki guidelines

• Best practices when creating new articles.
• Redirecting alternative names to articles.
• Participating in discussions about articles.
• Archiving discussions.
• Breaking up articles in separate articles.

Miscellaneous guidelines

Guidelines too small to have their own pages.

Creating templates

If you want people to know about templates you created, you can list and describe them on Project:Templates. Please try use a format similar to how other templates are listed and described. Also remember to categorize them in one of the template categories!

Deleting redirects

Some redirects should be deleted (marked {{delete}} or {{speedydelete}}) based on violating other policies besides what are specifically mentioned in the Deletion policy or the Speedy deletion policy.

Here are some straightforward examples of redirects that should be marked for deletion:

• A redirect to a guild — Guild names in the main namespace are not allowed as per STOW:GUILD#Naming.
• A redirect to a player character — Player character names in the main namespace are not allowed as per STOW:PC#Naming.
• A redirect to a server subpage — Server subpages (like guild progression or lists of crafters) in the main namespace are not allowed. There is no specific policy related to this, but it is consistent with STOW:GUILD#Naming (servers like guilds have their own namespace) and STOW:PC#Naming (subpages). Redirects to server pages are generally okay.