Editing Guidlines

The Lone State Wiki's Editing Guidelines exist as a guide to inform editors of the preferred methods of editing on this wiki. These guidelines are meant to deter all editing conflicts, grammatical errors and the mis-usage of the creation of articles.

Addressing the Reader
Wiki Editors are encouraged to avoid addressing the reader in the second-person (the use of you, your, yourself). To avoid doing such, wiki editors must maintain an objective stance (based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings) while writing articles, making them purely informative and nothing more. Maintaining a subjective stance (based on or influenced by personal beliefs or feelings rather than facts) while writing articles will result in a warning.

Unnecessary Articles
The following list details factors that could make an article unnecessary:


 * The creation of articles that already exist
 * Articles that inform the reader about very small or trivial things and do not provide that much information on the topic and that most players would already understand
 * Articles that generally do not inform the reader about features or items, among other things, contained within the Lone State game; for example, an article about a community-made group such as a clan would fit this rule
 * Articles about players in Lone State are prohibited. No matter their status or fame within the Lone State community, articles about players, except the Lone State developers, are forbidden

Unnecessary articles will either be deleted or redirected to the user who originally created it, meaning that the article will be transferred to the user who first created it as a user draft, allowing the page to be viewed and edited by other users but not treating it as an actual article. We advise users to create a blog post if their post fits the criteria of an unnecessary article.

Formal Diction
It is recommended that all wiki editors use formal diction when writing articles. Using such allows editors to entice readers. Formal diction on the wiki forbids the use of contractions (the shortening of words such as do not and were not to don't and weren't), the first point of view (the use of I, we, etc.), colloquial diction, the usage of slang and so on.

Categorization
The categorization of pages on this wiki is an important matter. All articles must be categorized so that readers and fellow editors may be provided with easier access to finding articles. An example of categorization is categorizing all melee weapons with the Melee and Weapons categories. The creation of unnecessary or offensive categories is prohibited and the perpetrator of such will be punished depending on the seriousness of the violation.

Infoboxes
Please use the proper info-boxes for things such as weapons, game passes and items. An example of such would be using Gun_Infobox for ranged weapons.

Future Updates
The issue of the lack of information shown on articles about things such as mechanics in future updates can be solved by drafting such articles in your userspace, like this example: User:YourUsernameHere/Draft:ArticleNameHere. All future content written in the mainspace will be deleted, therefore it is best you either write and store such off-site or draft it in your userspace.

Retrieving Deleted Content
Your articles may be deleted for a plethora of reasons. If you would like to retrieve the deleted content, feel free to ask a moderator or administrator. They will only retrieve your deleted content once; all future deletions will result in you being unable to retrieve such content. This is why it is recommended that editors write and store their content off-site prior to posting it on the wiki.