Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki:Manual of Style

This page documents an official Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki policy.

It describes a widely accepted standard that all editors should follow. Changes made to it should reflect consensus.

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Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki Policies

The Manual of Style (MoS or MOS) is the style manual for all Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki articles. The MOS is used to establish consistency across all wiki articles to help readers and editors properly understand the content of the wiki pages.

Some of the content here was influenced by Wikipedia's Manual of Style, although this is not a fork of the aforementioned project page.

General style

• Plain English should preferably be used to make viewing the wiki an easier and more intuitive task.
• While most articles on the wiki are written using modern American English standards, HHW does not favor a specific national variety of English over any other.
• Respect the site policy on spamming and vandalism, which have no place in the wiki.

Page style

• Page titles should be concise, clear, and use proper punctuation.
• It is recommended that you do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title (unless the title is a proper name).

Avoid: The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Avoid: 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Better: 2024 Atlantic hurricane season

• When creating a title for a tropical cyclone page, try to keep the name short and simple.

Avoid: The Tale of The Treacherous and Deceitful Cyclone Thomas Better: Cyclone Thomas

• Keep page markup simple. Overusing bold text and italics can result in a cluttered experience for readers and editors alike.

Avoid: Tropical Storm Bob was a short-lived tropical storm that affected the island of Bermuda. Better: Tropical Storm Bob was a short-lived tropical storm that affected the island of Bermuda.

• When writing articles, make sure that the text you wrote (especially those inside category tables) are accessible and readable to everyone, unimpaired or not — avoid low contrast.
• Some users prefer to give custom fonts to their articles. Although we neither encourage nor discourage this, we recommend you check whether the font you used is accessible and universally compatible, that is, a font that displays on modern operating systems like Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, etc. We also recommend you set a fallback font (such as sans-serif or serif) to ensure readers' experiences won't be disturbed.
• Avoid skipping page heading levels (e.g. ==Title==, ===Title===).
• When making clear that you are the creator of the page, do so in a way that will not confuse readers.

Avoid: 2024 Pacific typhoon season\Example Acceptable: Example's 2024 Pacific typhoon season Better: 2024 Pacific typhoon season (Example)

• Use straight apostrophes (') instead of curly apostrophes (’), accent marks, backticks, or similar-looking apostrophes, as they should be easier to type and makes it easier to find articles.
• Please make sure to keep your articles both cohesive and coherent - you are free to create any storms you want to, but respect the wiki guidelines and don't go overboard with your descriptions.
  • Also, make sure that your article contains actual content that is at least semi-serious and not filled with spam, gibberish, vandalism, nonsense, and other random content which may be classified as unencyclopedic; the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki is not an anarchy.
• Stub pages (aka short pages) are defined as pages with less than 300 bytes (characters). Pages that have been stubs for over two weeks are eventually deleted.
• It is strongly recommended that infoboxes are used in your pages, as they can help more readers discover it and can accurately portray key details of the article all in a single table, without the precondition of reading the entirety of the article.

Redirects

• Redirects should only be used when it's appropriate. If you want to move a page, it's best to ask the admin who will redirect it to not redirect the old page, unless the page in question is popular.