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 advised 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, similarly 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]]

Subpages

Subpage links work similarly to page links, with the subpage's name separated from the parent by /. Keep in mind the subpages' first character isn't case insensitive like the parent page, it is advised that you create subpages with the first letter capitalized, and simiarly links to them must be capitalized to function.

File:No-icon.png No/Broken:

[[List of movements/Political Parties/Poland]]

File:Yes-icon.png Yes:

[[List of movements/Political Parties/Poland]]

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