Feed The Beast Wiki:Manual of Style

General Guidelines

 * Technical articles, no fantasy or fiction novels. Simple easy facts.
 * Please maintain a neutral point of view when creating articles.
 * Please add to the end of every article you create.
 * Use Templates read the documentation and fill out the info. A lot of the machines have custom templates.
 * Almost all articles already have a page if you go to the mod the item belongs to. Click any red link and create a page. This will ensure it links correctly to the main mod page.
 * Do not randomly create your own page titles and categories. Use the ones in place or message staff or post it on the Staff's Noticeboard if one needs adding.
 * When creating categories use the following map. Everything should fit in a category. Pick the lowest one you can, so if doing an article on waterproof pipes they go under "Pipes" not "Liquid Transport".
 * When creating a raw resource page (ores,metals,woods) DO NOT link to usage or trivia. Recipes link to resources. We will not be listing every recipe that every resource can make. That's what NEI is for.
 * Image size -- 32x is the largest size for infobox images. 16x is for icons in navboxes or lists.
 * When referencing modpacks, please spell it as modpacks, not mod packs or mod-packs etc. This is based on what the generally accepted form of the word is.

Article titles

 * Use "title case" for articles. "Sentence case" for the others. (Exceptions may apply)
 * Do not use A, An, The as the start of an article, except it is an inseparable part of a name.
 * Titles should be normally nouns.
 * Use exactly the same name for items as it appears in game. If an item is named the same between 2 different mods AND the items are NOT interchangeable add (Mod Name) to the end of the item name for articles. If however 2 mods add different recipes for an item with the same name and its interchangeable create 1 page for the item with both recipes and have both mods link to that page. GregTech will be the frequent exception to this rule. Almost all Machines changed by GregTech will need to have the mod appended after the name.
 * Titles should not normally end in punctuation marks.

Heading and sections

 * Use "sentence case" for heading and section titles.
 * Please do not make heading and sections titles links.

Boldface

 * ''Further information: Wikipedia:MOS:BOLD

Article title terms
The most common use of boldface is to highlight the article title, and often synonyms, in the lead section. This is done for the majority of articles, but there are exceptions. See Wikipedia:MOS:BOLDTITLE for in-depth coverage.

Other uses
Use boldface in the remainder of the article only in a few special cases: In these cases, the appropriate markup automatically adds the boldface formatting; do not use the explicit triple-apostrophe markup.
 * Table headers and captions
 * Description (definition, association) lists

Italic

 * ''Further information: Wikipedia:MOS:ITAL

Grid icons

 * Add redirects for grid icons for commonly misspelled items. A list of existing redirects can be found here: Grid icon redirects.

External linking
Please avoid using shortened URLs unless unnecessary, as they can be used to cloak URLs that point to malicious websites and possibly lead users to sites they aren't expecting to enter. If shortened links are needed, please tag their use with Template:Shortened.

Category links

 * Category links should be place at the end of a page, before the Langbar.
 * Please do not create new categories, if you cannot find an appropriate existing category, please post a request for a new category on the staff noticeboard, redundant categories will be deleted without notice.

Disambiguation pages

 * Use unordered lists to list different definitions.
 * Use bold text on a new line to categorize different types of definitions.
 * Please do not link directly to a disambiguation page, instead link it to the appropriate article.

Translation
Please read the translation guideline for more information.

Links

 * No links on translated articles, except for links in the langbar, should link to English pages.

Links
Links in templates should be changed to use the L language link template in order for it to link correctly on translated articles.

Documentation

 * Every template should have a documentation unless that there exists a template that does similar things (in this case you could transclude the documentation for that template), or that the template is so simple that no documentation is needed.
 * Categorization of templates should be done on the documentation page using the Template:TC. Only if that template has no documentation can the template be categorized on the template page.

Navigation boxes

 * Navigation box items should be separated by a bold middot: ,.
 * Navigation boxes do not replace the "See Also" section.