PCBWiki:Styles

In this page ideal formating rules are outlined, whenever possible follow these:

Links

For file links we recommend doing it in this manner, do not use leading or trailing whitespace on the link, and do not separate the File: namespace name from the filename:

File:No-icon.png No:

[[File: Marxism.png]]

File:No-icon.png No:

[[ File:Marxism.png]]

File:No-icon.png No:

[[File:Marxism.png ]]

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[File:Marxism.png]]

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Files are all capitalized automatically, so the first letter's case is insensitive, so while a leading lowercase letter works, it is higly discouraged:

File:No-icon.png No:

[[File:marxism.png]]

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[File:Marxism.png]]

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Similarly the File: namespace's first character is insensitive and automatically capitalized, but again, it is disadvised:

File:No-icon.png No:

[[file:Marxism.png]]

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[File:Marxism.png]]

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If your filename has spaces,replace them with underscores, even if such action is not necessary as Mediawiki automatically converts between the 2 in internal links, it leaves some ambiguity in the link.

File:No-icon.png No:

[[File:Authoritarian Conservatism.png]]

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[File:Authoritarian_Conservatism.png]]

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If you want the icon to link to a page, add a | and link= followed by the page name, all without additional whitespace:

[[File:Altcentr.png|link=Main Page]]

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It is adviced to leave whitespace after the icon link, as it makes the rendered page's formatting nicer, but this depends on context.

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[File:Altcentr.png]] [[Dead Centrism]]

File:Meh-icon.png Usually not ok:

[[File:Altcentr.png]][[Dead Centrism]]

Internal Links

For internal links use the standard internal link syntax without leading or trailing whitespace:

[[Diarchy]]

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The first character of a page name is always capitalized and as result the first character is case insensitive, but for consistency purposes, not capitalizing the first character is heavily discouraged:

File:No-icon.png No:

[[diarchy]]

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[Diarchy]]

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If the page name has spaces, leave them as spaces, do not convert them to underscores:

File:No-icon.png No:

[[Democratic_Socialism]]

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[Democratic Socialism]]

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If you want the linked page to have an alias, add a | and the alias name afterwards, again without any additional whitespace:

[[Dead Centrism|Our mascot]]

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If the pages you're wanting to link from are from a namespace, add the namespace without whitespace in between them, like the file links:

[[Community:TheGhostOfInky]]

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Similar to the pages themselves, the namespaces' first character is auto-capitalized, and as a result is case insensitive, but it is discouraged to leave it in lowercase:

File:No-icon.png No:

[[community:TheGhostOfInky]]

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[Community:TheGhostOfInky]]

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Bear in mind that the Category: and File: namespaces automatically add a category and file link by default, so to link to the pages you need to add a leading :, as follows:

[[:File:Marxism.png]]
[[:Category:Centrists]]

External links

If the external link is to a page on the Polcompball anarchy wiki, use the provided {{PCBA}} template, simiarly to internal links, don't add extra whitespace and use spaces instead of underscores:

{{PCBA|PCBA Graveyard|Banned users}}

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For links to other wikis, use their respective interwiki links, following the same rules formatting as internal and PCBA links,like for example:

For chromeball:

[[mh:chromeball:Google Chrome|Ram eater]]

For wikipedia:

[[w:Chicken nugget|Nuggies]]

Bullet lists

For unordered lists, add * followed by a trailing whitespace character, as follows:

* Hello
* World

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Similarly for ordered lists, do the same only with a # character:

# Item 1
# Item 2