User talk:WIERDGREENMAN

Welcome
Hi, welcome to Recipes Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Pop tarts page.

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Happy editing, Game widow (help forum | blog)

Manual of style
Sadly, no there isn't yet a written manual of style, but the basics are as follows: for recipes, there should be minimally an Ingredients section using an h2 heading, and those ingredients should be in an unnumbered (bulletted) list, and there should be a Directions sections (also using an h2 heading) which should be a numbered list. Optionally, the recipes can begin with a Description section (also using an h2 heading).

Recipe titles should be capitalized, but mixed case with non essential words left uncapitalized (eg. Rice with Mushrooms).

For the Ingredients section, the preferred format is lowercase, with the quantities listed first. Abbreviations are fine as long as they are clear (tbsp = tablespoon, tsp = teaspoon, etc) and the preferred fractions format uses the factions found in the edit tools at the bottom of the edit screen (so ½ is preferable to 1/2).

For the Directions section, the fewer abbreviations the better.

Recipes should also be assigned minimally to the main ingredient categories (like "Chicken Recipes"), and ideally to the general descriptive categories (like "Italian Meat Dishes").

For ingredient pages (like Brussels sprouts), the page titles should be mixed case with only the first word capitalized (unless part of the name is a proper noun). Ideally, there should be an image of the item (thumbnail, 300px if possible) and a description (the more detail the better). The ingredient page should also be assigned to a parent category.

For general glossary terms, the page titles should be similar to ingredients (mixed case, only the first letter of the first word capitalized).

There are probably several more unwritten rules that I follow, as I've been cleaning up this particular wiki for over a year now, but I still have a long way to go. I am not the owner of the database, I work for wikia and this is my main assignment (getting this wiki into some sort of shape).

Thank-you for your interest, and I welcome all the help I can get. — Game widow (talk) 14:50, February 8, 2011 (UTC)