Websites Wiki:Editing Manual

This page is a how-to guide on making good and safe edits on the Webcyclopedia! This guide focuses on edits made in Source Editor as it is much neater, and as such all if not most edits should be made in source editor. This guide also goes hand in hand with the wiki rules.

P.S.A. regarding mobile edits
A note for mobile users of FANDOM: the limitations of portable FANDOM can make it awkward and troublesome for anyone to make some of the more complicated or generally larger edits. If any editors are a mobile user, use desktop view to ensure that all features are available and try to limit edits to simple ones, such as grammar/typo fixes.

For the best experience, it is strongly recommended that edits are made on desktop platforms such as a PC or a laptop.

Page Creation
Before creating a page, please make it on your sandbox page beforehand to make any further edits before fully releasing it.

Page Titles
Titles for pages concerning websites should be the full page URL (ex: Google.com). This is done to avoid confusion if websites have the same name, but not domain. Sub-domains (such as web-site.fandom.com) do not need their own page, but if they are important they may have their own section in the page. In some cases, they may have their own page.

The first instance of the page title on any given page should be in bold.

General Guidelines

 * 1) This is a primarily English-speaking wiki. All pages and edits must be written in American English. Writing words in the style of British English out of habit will not be punished, but it will be reverted. This is to ensure that the writing on articles remain consistent. Pages should never be written or changed to be translated in another language. This will be reverted. Users of other languages are encouraged to use translating tools such as a translation software to read the pages.
 * 2) *Examples: favorite over favourite, gray over grey, paralyze over paralyse, defense over defence.
 * 3) Remain in 3rd person. Do not use personal pronouns like "I" or "me" or any words that give attention to the editors. Do not use "you" or "we" when referring to readers either.
 * 4) Slang words should rarely be used. In almost all situations, formal language is expected to be used when writing or describing things as the wiki aims to be informative. However, contractions are generally acceptable.
 * 5) Keep it simple. Strive to make the wiki understandable for everyone without having to refer to a dictionary every other sentence. Use simple descriptions, understandable vocabulary and an easy-to-follow structuring that smoothly leads one sentence to the next. This does not mean editors cannot be descriptive or use synonyms to avoid repeating the same word over and over, but remember that word choice matters. Simplicity goes a long way to make reading through an article more enjoyable but variety helps make it interesting too.
 * 6) Keep a neutral point of view. All articles should remain as neutral as possible. Do not word anything in a page in a manner that could possibly inject personal biases or viewpoints to the subject. Remain objective as much as possible to present an article's subject fairly and reliably without editorial bias.

Infoboxes
Infoboxes are the rectangular boxes on the right of articles that contain various information. Different infoboxes exist for different things, such as Programming Language and Website. Almost all articles should have infoboxes, but not every single one needs them, albeit in rare circumstances.

Most of the fields in an infobox should be filled, but if you do not have the information or the info is unnecessary, said info may not need to be added.

Templates
Templates are featured on pages when they are fit. They come in many different shapes and forms, and sometimes have fields that can be filled in. For example;. A few of the most often used templates and their meaning will be presented below:
 * Stub - For short pages lacking in information (a byte count of 1,000 - 1,600 )
 * Delete - For pages that break the rules, have under 1,000 bytes, heavily violate the editing manual, etc. Pages with under 1,000 bytes have 24 hours to gain enough bytes before deletion.
 * Cleanup - For pages that violate the editing tutorial in a non-extreme way. If a page stays a candidate for cleanup for too long, it may become a candidate for deletion.

Categories
Do not add unapproved categories or random and irrelevant categories to pages. A full list of categories can be found at Special:Categories.

Talk Pages
Every user should always sign their messages by putting four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of the message. You should reply to message by either leaving a response on the messengers talk page, or by replying on your own wall and then adding the your name on their wall so they may be notified of it. The message can then be removed later at the users leisure.