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Here are some of our working standards, followed by general Wiki-related technical advice.

==Style guide==

* NewgonWiki avoids unnecessary capitalization in titles and subsections. For example, titles may read "National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children" for the NSPCC, and "List of organizations supporting child advocacy" for a list article. Some of our material still uses unnecessary capitalization.

*Over time, we should Americani'''z'''e out spellings. This is not a major priority, and will obviously require category moves if and when.

* Project page formats are decided on a per-project basis, and can be observed in the uniformity of project content wikicode concerned. Use the preview to see what it looks like. We tend to go for the more visually appealing styles, and maintain consistent style throughout a project.

* Encyclopedia article formats/section orders/referencing are almost identical* to Wikipedia's, but with extra checks in place to avoid the ugliness associated with some Wikipedia articles. For a decent flagship article, see [[Jack McClellan]], and click "edit" (or "view source" if you have no account) to see the wikitext that codes for an aesthetic text-wrapped TOC and various image positions.

:*Order of content, if it's not obvious: Introductory sections (and if required, the disclaimers or hatnotes before them) should have no heading, and should mention the subject of the article in bold, somewhere near the start of the passage. Intros should try to avoid using references, and should, in the case of larger articles, simply sum up the topic and what the rest of the article elaborates. The order of the following, headed sections may then progress roughly in the following fashion: 1. Any historical information 2. Any organizational, personal, conceptual features. The meat of the article. 3. Any scrutiny, praise or criticism. 4. Any commentaries, quoted for convenience. 5. Any "see also" list. 6. Any references (see below) 7. Any internal links list, and then external links list if either is required. 8. List of categories (trivial, as categories always migrate to the end, but best kept in one place).

:*Basic aesthetic/format controls: Do not let Tables of Contents act as pillars for wasteful and ugly white space at the head of articles - we're not Wikipedia. For example, to remove a ToC in a short or medium size article, insert <nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki> at the start of an article. To wrap text around a left-floating ToC in a big article, for example, insert <nowiki><div style="margin-right: 25px; float: left;">__TOC__</div></nowiki>. Illustrate articles by uploading and then formatting images left or right with captions, for example, inserting <nowiki>[[Image:Imagename.fileextension|thumb|Caption for image]]</nowiki>, replacing "thumb" with "frame" for the full size image. Reference lists are made easy by wrapping the material (URLs, Book refs, etc) in ref tags, i.e. <nowiki><ref>Full book ref, or link</ref></nowiki>. Then place a references list at the end of the article, or for whatever reason if you need one before the end, just insert: <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> where relevant. Other useful formatting codes include <nowiki>:text goes here</nowiki> to indent a paragraph, and <nowiki>*text goes here</nowiki> to bullet a paragraph. 

Remember to make use of the formatting buttons above the edit window, hovering to reveal each button's function.

==Basic wikitext==

Our cheatsheet gives basic technical advice about wikicode. See Wikipedia's version [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet here] (note, it contains some templates, etc, which we do not use).

{|align="center" style="width:100%; border:2px #a3b1bf solid; background:#f4f7de; text-align:left;"
|colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#5f8efc; text-align:center;" |
<h2 style="margin:.5em; margin-top:.2em; margin-bottom:.4em; border-bottom:0; font-weight:bold;">NW Cheatsheet</h2> 
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| colspan=3 style="background:#ddb1c7; border-top:2px #a3b1bf solid" |
<center>'''Hacks that work anywhere in the text'''
|-<!--COLUMN HEADINGS--> style="background:#ddb1c7; padding:0.3em; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;"
| style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" width="30%" | Description
| style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" | You type
| style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" width="30%" | You get
|-<!--1ST ROW 1ST COLUMN-->
|Italics, bold, and both
|<!--2ND COLUMN-->
<tt><nowiki>''italics'', '''bold''', and '''''both''''' (Two apostrophes, three apostrophes, and five apostrophes</nowiki></tt>
|<!--3RD COLUMN-->
''italics'', '''bold''', and '''''both'''''
|-<!--HORIZONTAL LINE-->
|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
|-<!--2ND ROW 1ST COLUMN-->
|Internal link to another page

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<tt><nowiki>[[Girllove]]</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>[[Girllove]]rs</nowiki></tt>
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[[Girllove]]<br />
[[Girllove]]rs
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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"Pipe" a link to change the link's destination
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<tt><nowiki>[[Judianne Densen-Gerber|JDG]]</nowiki></tt>
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[[Judianne Densen-Gerber|JDG]]
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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Link to a section
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<tt><nowiki>[[Peter Tatchell #"BOY" Chapter, Dares To Speak and Paedophile Information Exchange|Tatchell's comments on ''Dares to Speak'']]</nowiki></tt>
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[[Peter Tatchell #"BOY" Chapter, Dares To Speak and Paedophile Information Exchange|Tatchell's comments on ''Dares to Speak'']]
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Green link
<div style="padding: 0.7em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''green links in articles help by showing notable pages not yet created''</div>
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<tt><nowiki>[[something missing]]</nowiki></tt>
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[[Green link|something missing]]
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|References and footnotes
<div style="padding: 0.7em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''sources in the article will appear where <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> is put, typically under a level 2 section heading (see below) towards the bottom of the page; text between <nowiki>{{}}</nowiki> is for a template. Otherwise, reflist will appear at the bottom of the article automatically, so just put the title <nowiki>==References==</nowiki>''</div>
<div style="padding: 0.7em .5em; font-size:0.9em;"></div>
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<tt><nowiki>Hello,<ref>[http://www.loc.gov/about/ Library of Congress]</ref> World.<ref>http://www.w3.org/</ref></nowiki></tt>
<br /><br />
<tt><nowiki>
References:

{{reflist}}</nowiki>

</tt>
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Hello,<ref>[http://www.loc.gov/about/ Library of Congress]</ref> World.<ref>http://www.w3.org/</ref>

References:

{{reflist}}
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Signature
<div style="padding: 0.7em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''sign your contributions when posting to a talk page''</div>
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<tt><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></tt><br /><br /><span style="font-size:0.9em;">''do not sign in an article, only on talk pages''</span>
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[[Special:Mypage|Username]] ([[Special:Mytalk|talk]]) {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} (UTC)
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Plain website
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<tt><nowiki>https://www.newgon.net/wiki</nowiki></tt>
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https://www.newgon.net/wiki
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Link a website
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<tt><nowiki>[https://www.newgon.net/wiki]</nowiki></tt>
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[https://www.newgon.net/wiki]
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Link and name a website
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<tt><nowiki>[https://www.newgon.net/wiki NewgonWiki]</nowiki></tt>
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[https://www.newgon.net/wiki NewgonWiki]
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Strike your talk page comment
<div style="padding: 0.7em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''to show your previous comment is outdated''</div>
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<tt><nowiki><s>This topic isn't notable.</s></nowiki></tt>
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<s>This topic isn't notable.</s>
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Hide text somewhere for editors
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<tt><nowiki><!--Are you sure he said this?--></nowiki></tt>
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<!--Are you sure he said this?-->
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Show an image

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<tt><nowiki>[[</nowiki></tt>File:Wiki.png<tt>|thumb|</tt>Caption<tt><nowiki>]]</nowiki></tt>
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[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption]]
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Link a Wikipedia Article

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<tt><nowiki>[[Wikipedia: Child sexual abuse|Wikipedia's article on CSA]]</nowiki></tt>
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[[Wikipedia: Child sexual abuse|Wikipedia's article on CSA]]
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|[[Template:MAI]]
<div style="padding: 0.7em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''one of our templates and page tags''</div>
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<tt><nowiki>{{Template:MAI}}Content of article.</nowiki></tt>
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{{Template:MAI}}Content of article.
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Add a page to a [[Help:Categories|category]]
|<tt><nowiki>[[Category:Category name]]</nowiki></tt><br /><br /><span style="font-size:0.9em;">''place near the bottom of a page''</span>
|<span style="font-size:0.9em;">''shows''</span> "Category name" <span style="font-size:0.9em;">''in a bar at bottom when the page is previewed or saved''</span>

|-<!--WORKS ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF LINES-->
| colspan="3" align="center"  style="background:#ddb1c7; border-top:2px #a3b1bf solid" |

'''Hacks that work only at the beginning of each line'''

|-<!--COLUMN HEADINGS--> style="background:#ddb1c7; padding:0.3em; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;"
| style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" width="30%" | Description
| style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" | You type
| style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" width="30%" | You get
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|Redirect a page to another page
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<tt><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Target page]]</nowiki></tt>
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Redirected to the target page, when you search for, or follow an internal link to the object page. Useful for alternative spellings.
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Redirect to a section of another page
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<tt><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[</nowiki></tt>Target page#anchorName<tt><nowiki>]]</nowiki></tt>
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Redirected as above, but to a page section
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Section headings<br />
<div style="padding: 0.7em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''a Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article''</div>
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<tt><nowiki>==Level 2==</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>===Level 3===</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>====Level 4====</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>=====Level 5=====</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>======Level 6======</nowiki></tt><br /><br />
<span style="font-size:0.9em">''do not use''&nbsp; =Level 1=&nbsp; ''as it is for page titles''</span>
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==Level 2==
===Level 3===
====Level 4====
=====Level 5=====
======Level 6======
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Bulleted list
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<tt>* One</tt><br />
<tt>* Two</tt><br />
<tt>** Two point one</tt><br />
<tt>* Three</tt>
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* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Numbered list
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<tt># One</tt><br />
<tt># Two</tt><br />
<tt>## Two point one</tt><br />
<tt># Three</tt>
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# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
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|Indenting text
<div style="padding: 0.7em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''this is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations. <br /> </div>
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<tt><nowiki>no indent (normal)</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>:first indent</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>::second indent</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>:::third indent</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>::::fourth indent</nowiki></tt><br />

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no indent (normal)<br />
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent
::::fourth indent

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