MEpedia:Manual of style

Writing articles on MEpedia requires familiarizing yourself with some of the basic formatting code used by MediaWiki, the software that powers both Wikipedia and MEpedia.

A few key conventions:


 * Page titles and section headings: Always capitalise the first letter of page titles and links, subsequent words must start with a lower case letter (eg "Post-exertional malaise", "Muscle fatigability") unless they are proper names (eg "Royal Free Hospital", "Nancy Klimas", "United States") or acronyms (eg "HHV-6", "IL-7").


 * Use of plurals in titles: Normal page articles should normally use the singular while category page articles should use the plural form.


 * Chronological order: put oldest first, e.g., for Notable studies 2010 would go before 2018.

This is red. This is blue. This is (light) gray. This is dark gray.
 * #MEAction colors: style-guide-colors.jpg red #E7453A, blue #0BA7CD , light gray a solid equivalent to #3B3E3F 50% fill - use rgba(59,62,63,0.5) for transparency or , dark gray #3B3E3F , white #FFFFF, use templates for colors, e.g.:

Dates
Dates should be in a consistent form and in US format: Jun 26, 2018; Jun 2018; or when the month is unknown, 2018. When manually inputting citations, use Jun 26, 2018; Jun 2018; or when the month is unknown, 2018.

Punctuation and footnotes
Punctuation should appear inside footnotes where possible.

Related Articles

 * #MEAction branding
 * Formatting (e.g, bold, italics, bullets)
 * Creating internal, external and transwiki links
 * Citations (guidelines to come...)
 * Wikipedia Manual of Style
 * Wikipedia: Chronological Order