Help:Basic setup, rules and guidelines
From Coastal Wiki
Contents
Subject title
- Keep it as short as possible
- Note: If you need to change your title do it before editing; otherwise use ‘Move Page’ function.
Introduction
- Concise lead section or introduction
- 1-4 paragraphs long
- Do not type ‘introduction’ as a heading – just write the introductory paragraph at the start of article.
The article
- Put your main text in this section.
- Provide relevant context (policy, practice, science).
- Consider important interactions with other components of the coastal system.
- Manual: tells you how to produce links, emphasise text, lists, headlines etc.
- Link to other relevant coastal wiki articles.
- Don’t enter into details if good references and links to detailed information are available.
- Article length – between a few hundred to a few thousand words.
- Other tips:
- Separate major sections of article with section headlines.
- Use heirachial heading structure
- Box text for effect
- Define terms
- Add relevant images or graphics, tables
- Use analogies and comparisons to illustrate
References
- For references used in article
- Type <references/> to generate automatic reference list
See also
- Link to related WIKI articles – search the database to see what’s out there.
External Links
- Link to resources and information already available (but only if not copyright).
Don't forget authorship:
Typing this:
- {{author
- |AuthorID=13036
- |AuthorName= Pilkington, Caitlin}}
will generate this:
Please note that others may also have edited the contents of this article.
|
[[Category:Articles by {{{AuthorFullName}}}]]
Your author ID number can be found at the end of the URL of your contact card page - find this through Contact Database.
