9b6t:Guidelines

Please follow following quality-related rules while creating or editing a page. Nobody wants to clean after your mess.

General rules

 * Write in more or less grammatically correct English.
 * Don't use the first or second person, unless it is a direct quote.
 * Use consistent style inside an article.
 * Use templates, when appropriate, e.g. use Template:Player on Player articles. For more info, see 9b6t:Templates.
 * For only tangentially related content and/or personal diaries or something, use the userspace (e.g. User:example or User:example/Blog).
 * Try to be objective and unbiased.
 * Avoid using  at all costs.

Lists

 * Use lists only to count various elements of the same type or for a timeline.
 * If in doubt, prefer a continuous text over a list.
 * Don't put  in lists (lines that begin with   or  ).
 * The structure of elements should be similar (e.g. don't make a list of nouns and then add a full sentence to the list).
 * Either put punctuation at the end of all elements or at the end of none.
 * If the list consists of full sentences or some elements have punctuation, put full stops at the end of all elements.

Use of sections, bold and italic
July 14th 2020 * Some event. but rather this: === July 14th 2020 === * Some event.
 * Don't use sections with the same name as the article.
 * Prefer sections of bold font, i.e. don't do this:
 * Use italic over bold for emphasis.
 * Use bold in the first sentence of an article, to mark alternative names for the topic the article covers.
 * Use bold in the first sentence of an section, to mark the name of the topic the section covers.
 * Don't mark the same phrase bold multiple times.

Article links

 * For any noun in an article, that has an article itself, add a link for at least its first occurrence, by surrounding it in two square brackets.
 * Don't create links to articles that don't exist and are not planned to be created any time soon.
 * Link an article to itself only once (in the first sentence of the article).

Categorization

 * Add categories to newly created pages (some templates automatically add an category). If no category applies, add.
 * Add  to the end of any userspace article, if you want it to be easily found.
 * You may not need to categorize a page, if the template handles categorization automatically.

Player articles

 * Use Template:Player.
 * Follow the template documentation.
 * Only create a player article, if they are on this list.
 * The player is considered in inactive, if they have announced that they are leaving the server or if they haven't logged in for two months.
 * If a player is inactive, use their Minecraft IGN and Discord Name from when they were last active.

Team articles
When creating a team article, be sure that the team follows these criteria:
 * Use Template:Team.
 * Follow the template documentation.
 * The team consists of at least three active players on 9b6t.
 * Is known by other players.

Talk pages

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