MEpedia:Manual of style

The following offers some style guidance for writing articles on MEpedia. Some of this requires familiarizing yourself with some of the basic formatting code used by MediaWiki, the software that powers both Wikipedia and MEpedia.

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 before (rather than after) footnotes where possible.

Lead paragraph
Generally the first paragraph of an entry should provide a summary of the whole.

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