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→General writing style: Switched out some TF2 stuff to Portal stuff
(→Classes, items, and terms: Mentioned exempting "Aperture Science" prefix from object names.) |
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*Emoticons - :) | *Emoticons - :) | ||
*Excessive punctuation - !!! | *Excessive punctuation - !!! | ||
*Sentences starting with lowercase - "place the | *Sentences starting with lowercase - "place the portal in the corner" | ||
===Overlinking and underlinking=== | ===Overlinking and underlinking=== | ||
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The guidelines for linking are: | The guidelines for linking are: | ||
*No more than 10 percent of the words in an article are contained in links. | *No more than 10 percent of the words in an article are contained in links. | ||
*Two links should not be next to each other in the text, so that it looks like one link - such as [[ | *Two links should not be next to each other in the text, so that it looks like one link - such as [[Aperture Science]] [[Material Emancipation Grill]]. | ||
*Links for any single term should not be excessively repeated in the same article. Excessive linking is more than once for the same term, in a line or a paragraph, which will almost certainly appear needlessly on the viewer's screen. Remember, the purpose of links is to direct the reader to a new spot at the point(s) where the reader is most likely to take a temporary detour due to needing more information. | *Links for any single term should not be excessively repeated in the same article. Excessive linking is more than once for the same term, in a line or a paragraph, which will almost certainly appear needlessly on the viewer's screen. Remember, the purpose of links is to direct the reader to a new spot at the point(s) where the reader is most likely to take a temporary detour due to needing more information. | ||
*Duplicating an important link distant from a previous occurrence in an article may well be appropriate. If an important term appears many times in a long article, but is only linked once at the very beginning of the article, it may actually be underlinked. Indeed, readers who jump directly to a subsection of interest must still be able to find a link. But take care in fixing such problems, the distance between duplicate links is an editor's preference, however if in doubt duplicate the term further down the article. | *Duplicating an important link distant from a previous occurrence in an article may well be appropriate. If an important term appears many times in a long article, but is only linked once at the very beginning of the article, it may actually be underlinked. Indeed, readers who jump directly to a subsection of interest must still be able to find a link. But take care in fixing such problems, the distance between duplicate links is an editor's preference, however if in doubt duplicate the term further down the article. | ||