Peace Corps Wiki:Style guide

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Contents 1 General 2 Titles 2.1 Category titles 2.2 Site titles 2.3 Personal titles 3 Category tag use 3.1 Region articles 3.2 Country articles 3.3 Personal articles 4 Category tags under a country 4.1 Site articles

General

• Capital letters are used only for proper nouns and the first letter.
  • "Mali"
  • "List of resources for Samoa"

• The main article for a country will be it's conventional short name used in everyday language. The official name will be redirected to the conventional short name.
  • "Morocco" instead of "Kingdom of Morocco".

• Titles that use the country name should follow conventional English phrasing. This helps for search engines searching direct queries. (Cities, towns, and villages are an exception, see below)
  • Packing List for The Gambia.

• The word of 'Peace Corps' is understood for most article.
  • "Peace Corps Training in The Gambia" (as a title of subsection) would just be "Training in The Gambia"

• The name of the Country is understood for subsections if the article has the country name in the title.
  • The section "What is the electric current in The Gambia?" under FAQs about Peace Corps in The Gambia becomes "What is the electric current?" since The Gambia is understood.

Titles

Category titles

• A category is titled in the plural if each member of the category constitutes an instance of what that title refers to.
  • Use of plural: [[Category:Countries]] (each member of the category is "a country": Albania, Armenia, Ukraine, etc.)
  • Use of singular: [[Category:Transportation]] (each member of the category is related to transportation, but is not "a transportation")

Site titles

• Articles about sites are titled in the following format: the full name of the site, excluding the country. Use ", ((Country))" if there is another instance of the name existing in this wiki.
  • External site: Mopti (in Mali, Africa)
  • External site: London, Ontario and London, England

Personal titles

• The following characters are can/can not be used in a title
  • not allowed: ( ) { } [ ] &
  • allowed: (period) (comma) [A-Z] [a-z] [0-9]

Category tag use

• General tags [[Category:Needs review]] can be used anywhere ...or something to alert administration to the article's status

Region articles

• [[Category:(Region name)]]
  • [[Category:Africa]]

Country articles

• [[Category:(Country name)]]
  • [[Category:Nigeria]]

Personal articles

• Tag each personal page with: [[Category:(Country name) volunteers]] or [[Category:(Country name) staff]] and [[Category:(Country name)(the year service started)]]

Note: Please use name of the country, example: [[Category:Bolivia volunteers]] not [[Category:Bolivian volunteers]]

For example to add an article called Albert Einstein to the category "people" and have the article sorted by "Einstein, Albert". You would type "[[Category:People|Einstein, Albert]]".

• The tags: [[Category:volunteer]]and [[Category:Volunteers who served in (Country name)]] categories will slowly be phased out.

Category tags under a country

• All pages must contain [[Category:(Country name)]]

Site articles

• [[Category:(Country name) sites]]

• A general grouping of all sites I think is still good under [[Category:Sites]]