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Content Guidelines

General Guidelines

  • Content must abide by the Atelier community rules as posted in the Discord server and mirrored here.
  • Content must be written in English, and must be as grammatically correct as possible.
  • Content must be kept reasonably legible.
    • Break apart long sentences and paragraphs to make them easier to digest.
    • Make use of formatting, headers, and similar formatting.
  • Content must not abuse formatting.
    • Limit bold, italics, underlines, text colors, highlights, and similar formatting to only where applicable and beneficial to the content.
  • Sources should be accessible and meaningful.
    • Pick meaningful sources of reasonable trustworthiness and applicability to the topic.
    • Avoid sources which are controversial, would lead to conflict, would endanger the reader if visited, or would otherwise go against the Atelier community rules and guidelines.
    • Cite sources in APA format. All citations should be listed at the end of a page under a section headered "Citations" in large or medium header size.

Public Wiki Sections

This is applicable to all wiki shelves not under the User-Authored Content shelf.

  • Keep content objective, third-party, and "wiki-style".
    • The style of writing should fit along what would be expected out of a wiki, information resource, technical documentation, or encyclopedia.
    • Use of first-person speech and conversational forms is prohibited aside from as excerpts.
  • When original works or research are involved, place the content first under your own User-Authored Content book or in your own articles elsewhere, then cite it as the reference.
  • Place books, chapters, and pages under reasonable organization. Avoid duplication.
  • Verify correctness of content as much as possible.
  • Guides and tutorials may also be placed into the public wiki sections. 
    • These guides should be very unaffiliated in terms of designer, brand, or methodology; for very author-specific guides, please place them under the User-Authored Content section.
  • Please use the Discord to discuss regarding the content and possible edits when applicable.

User-Authored Content Section

This is applicable to the User-Authored Content shelf.

  • Users are allocated one user-specific book upon request, in which they can write less wiki-like and more personal content.
    • For requesting a user book, please ping a wiki manager or ai03 in Discord.
  • Types of content recommended for these sections are primary/original works and research, single-author guides and tutorials, development logs and stories, and similar content which are heavily user-bound and would not fit well within the structure of a typical wiki.
  • For general knowledge which would fit well within a wiki, please contribute to the public wiki sections instead.
  • This section is not as rigid as the rest of the wiki in terms of tone, writing styles, or amount of error-checking done; for that reason, please copy-paste the following block onto the top of all pages under the User-Authored Content shelf.
User-Authored Content Disclaimer

This page is under the User-Authored Content section of the wiki.

Since pages in this section are written primarily by a single author, the content may be opinion- or methodology-based and may be subject to less error-checking. Learn more