ProleWiki talk:Editorial guidelines/Archive

Promote discussions here about editorial styles --FelipeForte (talk) 23:39, 17 November 2020 (-03)

I'm going to be adding my suggestions to the talk page and I guess we use the actual page for the things we agree on? In any case I added several suggestions with this edit, hopefully categorized in the new chapters below. Remember that whatever we decide, the important thing is to be consistent across the whole wiki. --CriticalResist (talk) 22:51, 18 November 2020 (-03)

Article title

• Only the first letter should be capitalized, as well as proper nouns (city names, people's names, etc).--CriticalResist (talk) 22:51, 18 November 2020 (-03)

Article body

• When writing the page title in the body the first time, it should be bolded if that name is in the introductory paragraph (before any headings).--CriticalResist (talk) 22:51, 18 November 2020 (-03)
• When writing down the title of a creative work (see External works below) it should be put in italics.--CriticalResist (talk) 22:51, 18 November 2020 (-03)
• When directly quoting someone or something, the quote should use the quote template (see imperialism and the Engels quote) if the quote goes on several lines, or simply in "quotation marks" if the quote is shorter.--CriticalResist (talk) 22:51, 18 November 2020 (-03)

Unless the quote is too big, blockquotes should be used instead (like used in this answer or by the use of <blockquote></blockquote>). Refer to, for instance, this edited book chapter, where the smaller quotes are put in blockquotes. --FelipeForte (talk) 09:27, 19 November 2020 (-03)

Article media

(pictures in articles, as well as meta templates)

• Should always follow the reading direction. In left-to-right languages, they should always be to the right of the text (pictures should be thumbnailed). In right-to-left languages, they should always be to the left of the text. --CriticalResist (talk) 08:10, 19 November 2020 (-03)
• Pictures inserted in articles should always have a description added to them --CriticalResist (talk) 08:10, 19 November 2020 (-03)

External works

(such as movies, interviews, books, novels, etc)

• We should, if known, include the date the work was first published in parentheses. For example: The Wretched of the Earth (1961). --CriticalResist (talk) 22:51, 18 November 2020 (-03)
• We should also respect the naming convention as published. Again taking this book as example, it's either published under The Wretched of the Earth (not the capitalisations) or Wretched of the Earth, so both would be acceptable. --CriticalResist (talk) 22:51, 18 November 2020 (-03)

The Wretched of the Earth or The wretched of the Earth? Considering we're editors, we're free to not follow the editorial rules of the market, so I kinda tend to prefer lowercasing it as much as possible. I consider The wretched of the Earth the better option when citing this work. --FelipeForte (talk) 09:36, 19 November 2020 (-03)

Translations

I noticed that there are a few articles that are extrapolated from old dictionaries, when that is the case, i propose the following:

A disclaimer on the top of the page, that goes as follows:

This article is a translation from an original work, for more details, check the citations.

And that details about the translation go down to the references section, e.g what i did in the George Washington article.