Star Citizen:Style guide

Note: Just going to start this page out with a few rough notes and we'll work it into a proper article later. Style Guide is essentially in a Request For Comments stage. Feedback is welcome on the Talk page. - User:Czenstar

Voice

 * Primarily we are an out-of-character present day nerds talking about this game Star Citizen on this wiki. Main namespace articles should be in "neutral" voice like most wikis.
 * We will be documenting "Lore". Lore articles may have 30th century in char perspective.
 * Community pages, can be more gungho opinionated.

Abbreviations
Acronyms and abbreviations are tracked and linked by redirect. The redirect page itself is placed into Category:Abbreviations.

If two or more different meanings for the abbreviations exist, there would have to be a page instead of the redirect.

Example: UEE

To edit a redirect:

Click the page and note the "redirected" line, just under the title. In our examples case that says "(Redirected from UEE)". Click the term after the "from", then select edit (or edit source) on the resulting page.

Date Formats

 * Standard date format for this wiki is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:DD. (More general to more specific, dropping any unneeded precision on the right.)
 * In lore dates are usually done in Standard Earth Time (aka SET), "today" tracking with real life date + 930 years.

Disambiguation
Wikis must resolve ambiguous references, when a link is to a term that has more than one distinct meaning. This process is called disambiguation.

When one term is clearly the more expected result, it can remain the primary link and a "For" entry should head off the article. (See Template:For for examples.)

When it is not so clear, the term becomes a disambiguation page, linking to the possible meanings.

Alternate meanings take the form of "Term (other meaning)". (Note lower case for disambiguation meaning.) Alternate meanings should also have a for statement at the head of the article.

Example: Orion (ship), Orion (system)