Research Realm:Guidelines

Welcome, here is how to help

Getting started

Before you can edit on this wiki, you will need to create an account! Currently all accounts must be approved, so you need to request one. On the account request page, enter the username you want to be known as on this site, and an email address to connect to the account. Your account will be approved via email, so it must be a working address; you should make sure to always have your account connected to an email you can access! The biography section will be set as your initial user page; a good suggestion is to describe what subjects you are interested in that you will probably contribute to most here, such as what themes or games you like most.

Once your account has been accepted, you can begin editing right away! For a basic introduction on how to contribute to the Research Realm, continue with this page. If you need help with how to edit in MediaWiki, the software this wiki uses, see Help:Cheatsheet for some basic formatting you can refer to, such as how to make bold text or how to add an image.

Writing articles

• Stay objective. Do not put subjective sentences or opinions into articles (eg. "This game is crap"). Certain smaller jokes might be okay if they do not derail the article.
• Write articles in third-person, and probably do not refer to the reader in most cases. For video games, you should refer to the hypothetical person playing the game as "the player"; if an audience pronoun is needed, use "they", never "he or she" or any variations.
• Try to write with good spelling and grammar as best as you can, though other editors will be willing to help if you need it.
• Different regional variations of English are allowed, though an article should use the same style throughout, and the style used should match the article topic's origin if possible; an article about a British topic should be written with British English spelling, an American topic should be written in American English, etc.
• The structure of the Wiki should follow a hierarchy. For instance, you should be able to navigate from a page about 1999 as a year down to a Rock Raiders part that was released in that year.
• Create a new wiki article for a topic when there is a decent amount of information on it. If there is little information about a topic and it is closely connected to another topic, it may be best to keep the smaller topic write-up as a section on the larger one's page.

Grammar

• Article titles should be in sentence case. Proper nouns and titles of works in article titles should be capitalised in their appropriate case, but not other words. Example: "List of books written by Jane Smith", not "List Of Books Written By Jane Smith".
• Titles of works:
  • Titles in English should be written in title case. For works without an English title, check the appropriate rules for each language; eg. titles in Danish generally only capitalise the first word like in sentence case.
  • Larger works like books, films, albums, television series, magazines, and video games should be italicised. Shorter works like individual episodes of a series, shorter songs or tracks on an album, or articles within a magazine should not be, and might be written in "quotation marks" the first time they are named in a page.
• Generally write "Lego" and "Legoland" (when referring to the parks) stylised in all capital letters ("LEGO", "LEGOLAND"). This is however not a strict rule; we are not beholden to corporate whims. If the subject or a quoted source does not all-capitalise Lego or Legoland, do not change it in the article for that subject or in the quote.
  • Do not write other products or brands in all-caps, even if they are frequently written that way; specifying they are stylised that way within the article is good enough. Example: "Bionicle (stylised as BIONICLE) is a brand of toy LEGO figures."
• Start a new paragraph whenever the subject changes at all. Overly-long paragraphs should be broken up if it can be divided into two or more difference subjects. Short paragraphs of only one or two sentences should be merged when possible, but don't force it. The writing flowing nicely and being readable is the most important thing.

Notability

• An official Lego product, location, company, or historical event.
• A person who works or worked at Lego who has sufficient public information on their work.
• A person or company who has worked with the Lego Group officially, has sufficient information on their work that could not just be written in the article for what they worked on, and that does not have a massive amount of notability outside of Lego.
• An unofficial subject that has been officially mentioned by the Lego Group, that the Lego Group has officially interacted with, or that has had a notable legal altercation with the Lego Group.
• An unofficial subject with sufficient historical, cultural, or some other sort of notability.

Citing sources

Most things should be cited!

Hello again!<ref name="LoC" /><ref>Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.</ref>

(the rest of the article)

== References ==
{{reflist}}

Alternatively, you can store the sources within the reference section, and simply use tags

Hello again!<ref name="LoC" />

(the rest of the article)

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="LoC">[https://www.loc.gov/about/ Library of Congress]</ref> World!<ref>[https://www.w3.org/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)]</ref>
}}

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Uploading files

For images:

• PNG: Should be used for screenshots of software and video games,

small edited images that would be damaged by saving as JPEG

• JPEG: Best for photographs and scans.
• GIF: Avoid except for animated images. Animated PNG files are allowed, though due to the non-standard nature of the format they don't always work.