Help:Style guide

Wiki formatting
See the MediaWiki guide on formatting.

Guidelines

 * Use sentence case on all page and section names, except for proper nouns. See this page's title.
 * Use Oxford spelling. Colour and neighbourhood have a 'u', analyse and other -yse words use an 's', but organize and other -ize words are with 'z' instead of 's'. (However, HasGeek is with an 's', not 'z'.)
 * Use American spellings in code samples. Variables should be named, not.
 * A list of unconnected phrases does not have a period at the end of each line, but a list of sentences does. Take this list.
 * Captions do not have an ending period, even if they have multiple sentences.
 * Page titles should always be unabbreviated, even if commonly referred to in abbreviated form. The abbreviated form should redirect to the main page. See, for instance, IIMB and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Template for pages
Most pages will require these sections:


 * A brief introduction preceding any of the sections, to explain what the page is about.
 * Background, explaining how this came to be. If it is detailed, call it History.
 * References, for citations in the text using MediaWiki's  tag.
 * External links, for links related to the page.
 * Further reading, for explanatory material hosted elsewhere.