Forum:Various wiki changes proposal

Formatting consistency
I'm going to try and keep this brief:

There are inconsistencies in the formatting here and my edits have more than once been undone for trying to maintain consistency. The following should be the source code formatting standard:

(these three templates are usually uncapitalised when used, so they should be uncapitalised on all articles, in my opinion)

(as with the above templates (excluding the Character infobox template), the norm seems to be leaving this template uncapitalised, so, if instances of it being capitalised are found ("Headquote" instead of "headquote"), it should be fixed) 



Header 3

 * (note the space between the text and the bullet)



Header 1
(all of the above (under the last Header 1 section, which is meant to be teh References section, that is) should be separated by lines like they are seen here)

File formatting
This could be due to my own ignorance of the purpose of this awkward formatting, but it's definitely worth a mention: This is blah blah blah blah blah!

Why the above formatting is used here, I don't know. It's not only inconsistent, as there are instances where the formatting is similar to the one I'm going to mention in a sec, but it serves no purposes and is cluttered in the source code mode. The following examples seem to be the more common standard on wikis:
 * Example 1

Header 1
Blah blah blah blah blah!

This is more blah blah blah!

Header 1

 * Example 2

Header 1
Blah blah blah blah blah!



This is more blah blah blah! (the difference between this one is the spacing, just in case you didn't notice)

Header 1
The above two formats are cleaner in source code mode and aren't unnecessarily (too my current knowledge, at least, since, as of now, I see no purpose in the current formatting of files on pages) cluttered.

Headers
Just take a look at this project thus far. Do you see the headers? Yeah, excluding the preset "Other Notes" header, that's how they should be capitalised on an encyclopedic wiki. This one's pretty self-explanatory: correctly capitalise the text headers unless it is incorrectly capitalised verbatim. Example:


 * This is following correct, regardless of being grammatically incorrect, as it's verbatim:

Assault Rifles

 * This is incorrect, as the header text is not verbatim and grammatical correctness should be applied:

Mass Effect 2
(this is correct)

Shepard's Reconstruction
(this is not incorrect, as it's not verbatim, and should be "Shepard's reconstruction" instead)

Facial Scarring
(this is not incorrect, as it's not verbatim, and should be "Facial scarring" instead)

Infoboxes
The same capitalisation rules above should apply to infoboxes as well; e.g. "Voice Actor should be "Voice actor" in the Character infobox template.

Categories
One of my biggest gripes here is the capitilisation of categories. I'm proposing that we correct the incorrectly named categories here for grammatical correctness. Here are a few examples:
 * Category:Assignment Locations → "Assignment locations"
 * Category:Recurring Characters‏‎ → "Recurring characters"
 * Category:Mission Locations‏ → "Mission locations"
 * Category:Planet Views → "Planet views"
 * ... hopefully you get the gist.

That's all, at the moment.

Discussion
Well? klad •T•C•E• 03:34, November 11, 2014 (UTC)