ImperialWiki style guide

The ImperialWiki style guide exists to help editors give ImperialWiki articles a consistent look and tone.

Introductions

The introductory paragraph for an article should repeat the title of the article in bold text.
Where applicable, the introduction to an article should include an image of the topic. The standard format is a thumbnail image on the right border of the page. Wiki code for the image would be similar to the following:

[[Image:filename.jpg|thumb|right|Image description]]

==Heading Text==

When mentioning a term that has an article of its own in the Wiki, create a Wiki link the first time the term appears in the article.

link an [[Article title]] where it first appears

If your link term doesn't exactly match the article title, you can use a bar to separate the article name from the link text.

link an [[Article title|link text]] where it first appears

If your link term is plural, but the article title is not, you can usually just add an "s" outside the link brackets instead of creating a redirect or using a bar in the link.

link [[Article title]]s where they first appear

The reference feature is enabled on Imperial Wiki. Create notes in the text using the following code format:

<ref>Source reference</ref>

Create a notes heading at the bottom of the article for the footnotes using the following code:

==Notes==

<references />

Some subjects, such as classes of starship and political factions, have more-or-less standardized formats for their pages. Before creating a new article, look for similar articles in the Wiki to determine whether articles of that type have a consistent format that you should duplicate.

The name of a class of starships should be italicized (e.g. Excelsior-class starships).
Capitalize the first word of an article title. Other words in the title should not be capitalized unless they are part of a proper name.