Consumerium:Guidelines

Revision as of 18:44, 15 June 2003 by Jukeboksi (talk | contribs) (Forget the TLDs for identifying countries, we'll use ISO 3166-1 for faster processing when relating to the zillion standards relying on it)

Guidelines

  • Please write descriptive Summaries.
  • If you have general information you might want to contribute it to Wikipedia and post a reference to Wikipedia if it's a "closed" case or Research if it's still "open".
  • When editing pages please pay attention to the desired order of additions if it is stated on the top of the page (Chronological, Reverse Chronological, Alphabetical, By Category)
  • Use the SI-system for measurements (it's cheaper for computers to process kilograms and meters and so forth)
  • Use the UK way for types of companies, Americans use Inc for all types of Incorporated bodies.
  • Use w:ISO 639 language codes for identifying languages, e.g. "en" is "english".
  • USE ISO 3166-1 (remember CAPITALISED, so we can tell even in Wiki what refers to language and what to a COUNTRY) for COUNTRY CODES since, it's freely available and several other standards use these for prefix, so it'll make the code run faster if we don't have to lookup w:ISO 3166-1 codes from tables all the time.
  • On spelling: International English uses mostly British spellings which are taught in most of the world. Also concepts like "honour" (British, Australian, Canadian, India, etc.) probably mean something different than "honor" (American) if you judge by actual behavior, so, perhaps both words now have meaning.
  • It could be a good idea to set up a scratchpad (like: User:Juxo/Scratchpad for yourself, it's easier to produce high quality texts if you start them somewhere, where they aren't supposed or required to make sense in the begining. This also supports finding better article names since you can see what your scribbling turns to in a few edits.