Help:Editorial guidelines

Proposed Guidelines

Introduction

Draft 2

Overview

Basically, please keep it clean, useful, and enjoy using the site. We hope it continues to grow, but it will only do this if people are willing to put their time into creating an informative, concise, and above all funny database.

Basic Editorial Guidelines

• Spelling and grammar should be checked before posting! It looks much more professional that way. Simply copy the text you've edited into a word processor or spellchecker and use the preview button.

• Language must be clean or partially asterisked out for quotes.

• All articles must not be offensive to an individual, or group of individuals at BRGS.

• When writing about another person, avoid insults and make sure what you're writing about them is true, or note/imply that it's fictional.

• Quotes are regarded liberally, so exact word-for-word isn't needed, but they need to have actually said it. Stories should be in their own sections.

• Images must not be from copyrighted sources and must be suitable for a wide audience (age 11 to 100). Where possible, use thumbnails on content pages.

Extended Information

• If you want to link to a page, please make sure the link is spelt correctly, with the correct capitals and punctuation. The first letter is not case sensitive, but the rest is, e.g. "technology" is the same as "Technology", but "Sports Hall" and "Sports hall" are different.
• Avoid external links to internal pages.
• All your changes appear in Recent Changes for easy editing.
• Please correct any spelling or grammar problems if you have time.

Draft 1

Please Read Carefully!

1. Check your spelling and grammar before posting! It looks much more professional that way. Simply copy the text you've edited into Microsoft Word, or Open Office if you don't have it, and do a quick spell check. Alternatively, pay attention in English. I managed!

2. If you want to link to a page, please make sure the link is spelt correctly, with the correct capitals and punctuation.

e.g. "technology" is different to "Technology" (the latter being correct)

3. If you're writing a page on a person, be it yourself or someone else, make it relevant! Quotes, anecdotes, mishaps, all are great, but "in-jokes" that only three people find funny are pretty dull to everyone else who's reading this.

4. Keep it polite and light hearted! Poking fun at people is great, but know where to draw the line. Blatant offensiveness, like racist comments, or just 'slagging off' someone will be removed.

5. Finally, please feel free to edit any page you want if you know what you're doing, but bear one thing in mind... we know exactly who edited a page!

Basically, please keep it clean, useful, and enjoy using the site. We hope it continues to grow, but it will only do this if people are willing to put their time into creating an informative, concise, and above all funny database.

The Admins