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This document describes the style expected of contributions to the aroonn wiki. These are ''not'' absolute requirements, but they ''are'' strong recommendations; failing to abide by them might result in your contribution being rewritten, reverted or deleted.

==Language==
aroonnian english is preferred. British english is an acceptable variant.

==Article naming style==
Use sentence case.

===Definite and indefinite articles in titles===
Omit leading articles, both definite and indefinite. If it is deemed necessary to include the leading article (because, for example, it normally forms part of a proper name), then use a redirect to achieve this.

===Pluralization===
Articles are usually named in the ''singular'' unless part of a quoted phrase. For example, the article "Puppy" would be preferred to the article "Puppies" (though a redirect could be created if it is deemed necessary). However, the plural form would be used in the article "Cats are cunts (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog song)".

==Heading and subheading style==
Use sentence case. Do not augment the default heading style (eg by adding ''italic'' or '''bold''') unless that style is required (eg to illustrate a title).

==Separators==
Use ''a single blank line'' to separate headings and subheadings from each other and paragraphs of body text from each other.

Do not use a blank line between headings and body text unless it is required for clarity. (It doesnt make any difference to the rendered page.)

==Lynkkes==
To prevent every article turning into lynkke supe, only lynkke to another article (including interwiki articles) upon the first mention.

Always use the full name as the lynkke target; eg "Aroonn:Manual of style" rather than "A:MOS". Where necessary or desirable, use the lynkke masking capability to prettify what the user sees. For example: <nowiki>[[Aroonn:Manual of style|MoS]]</nowiki>.

==Elision==
Do '''not''' use apostrophes unless '''absolutely''' required for clarity.

==Acronyms==
For formal acronyms (eg "IBM"), use upper case. For linguistic acronyms (eg, "eg") use lower case. In either case, do not include dots.

==Abbreviations==
Do '''not''' use dots unless '''absolutely''' required for clarity.

==Names==
Proper nouns '''only''' - such as names of persons, groups or companies - are capitalized. Names of months, weekdays etc usually are not.

==Countries==
Use the [[Wikipedia:ISO_3166-1_alpha-2|ISO 3166-1 alpha-2]] codes, including exceptionally reserved codes, written in lower case and preceded by a dot. For example, ".uk" for the United Kingdom.

==Dates and times==
Use the [[Wikipedia:ISO_8601|ISO 8601]] standard in the ''extended format'', ie YYYY-MM-DD; include leading zeros where necessary. The month can be written numerically (eg "02" for "february") or as a 3-letter abbreviation ("feb").

==Numbers==
Both cardinal (1, 2, 3...) and ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd...) numbers should be written numerically. Ordinal identifiers should be lower case.

Numbers are usually expressed in decimal, unless it is made obvious in context that some other base is being used.

===Hexadecimal numbers===
Any number written as digit zero, followed by lower case x, followed by the number in upper case, is assumed to be hexadecimal. Example: 0xC001D00D.

The "0x" may be omitted '''iff''' it is otherwise obvious in context that a number is hexadecimal. Thus hexadecimal numbers may also be written in the generalized based number format. Example: C001D00D (hexadecimal).

Hexadecimal is the preferred representation for power-of-2 based numbers, though binary and octal may be used where this would be more natural.

===Numbers in other bases===
Merely writing a single leading zero (as in, eg, 03654) to indicate octal is not sufficiently unambiguous. Moreover, there is no common standard for representing numbers in binary or, for that matter, any other base. Therefore, where a number is written in other than decimal or hexadecimal, it should be made obvious in context. The preferred method for doing this is to append the base in parentheses. Examples: 3654 (octal), or 01000011 (binary), or 1011014 (base 5).

==Transliteration==
All of the above rules admit a single exception: when an identifier is being transliterated, then the technical requirements or stylistic preferences of the owner of that identifier trump all other considerations '''except''' the rule about leading articles in titles. Hence, for example, "bash.org" is always written so, even if it appears at the beginning of a sentence; the name "DiGGr" is always written so, even though the StUdLeYcApS are annoying; and so on.

==Categories==
Categories help to classify pages. Some standard categories are provided for common classifications and these are referenced from the main page for convenience of navigation. Users are not ''entirely forbidden'' from creating categories, but it is ''strongly recommended'' that you seek consensus before doing so.

For more information, see [[Aroonn:Categories]].

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