WoWWiki:Policy/Writing

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WoWWiki:Policies
Policy status and phases
Category policy Copyright policy Deletion policy – Speedy deletion – NDA policy DNP Policy Editing policy External links Naming policy – Personal articles – Player character pages	Neutrality policy Stub policy Three revert rule Vandalism policy Voting policy Writing policy – Fan fiction – Guild pages – Items – Lore
See also: guidelines, administrators

This page is an official policy on WoWWiki. This policy has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. Feel free to propose any changes to this policy, but please make sure that changes you make follow the official process and reflect consensus on the discussion page before you put them into practice. Any big changes need to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced as policy. See WoWWiki:Policies for an overview of WoWWiki policies. See Category:Policies for a list of proposed and adopted policy articles. Shortcut: WW:WRITE

The WoWWiki language is English (all styles). See Do-Not-Post policy.

• Articles should be kept concise, summarizing and objectively presenting the facts directly relevant to the topic.
• As far as possible, avoid repeating information in other articles. For example, an article on King Madoran Bronzebeard can simply state that he was king during the War of the Three Hammers, without duplicating the content of that article.
• Large sections of copied source text are discouraged, as they tend to make articles overly long, create repetition, contain much information that isn't directly relevant, and are problematic to update. Use links!
• See the WoWWiki Manual of Style for guidelines on writing style.

Contents 1 Citations 2 Race name case 3 Other policies on writing 3.1 Do Not Post 3.2 Item articles 3.3 Guild pages 3.4 Lore 3.5 Fan fiction 4 See also

Citations

Citations to an official source should be included where appropriate (especially for Lore) in the form of a link. Following the policy of preferring internal links, the link would ideally be to an internal page containing a complete transcription of the source, clearly identified as Source Text. This should also allow for easier verification and citation of sources.

For the WoWWiki guidelines on providing citations, see WoWWiki:Citation.

Race name case

Following Blizzard's recent developments on writing style, race names ("humans", "elves", "dwarves", etc) are now written in lower case in WoWWiki. This is in line with standard English writing rules. Note however that this means that nationality is still capitalized; just like "English", "Forsaken" is usually capitalized.

Other policies on writing

Most of the writing policy is written as subsections:

Do Not Post

• Policy/DNP (WW:DNP) – Content that should never be posted to WoWWiki

Item articles

• Policy/Writing/Item Articles (WW:ITEMS) – What format to follow when creating and editing articles related to in-game items.

Guild pages

• Policy/Writing/Guild pages (WW:GUILD) – What to include and what not to include in guild pages.

Lore

• Policy/Writing/Lore (WW:LORE) – How to approach and edit articles containing Warcraft lore on WoWWiki.

Fan fiction

• Policy/Writing/FanFiction (WW:FANFIC) – A few ground rules for fanfic on WoWWiki.

See also

• List of common misspellings
• WoWWiki Manual of Style