Project:Editing guidelines
The following contains general editing guidelines for this entire wiki. These guideline are selected in order to keep all the editors involved here to be "on the same page" and to maintain some level of consistency.
Game scope
Otherwise known as Riichi mahjong, Japanese mahjong is the general scope of this Wiki. Therefore, all other mahjong variations are not to be included here. Nevertheless, any material pertaining to Japanese mahjong either from referenced work and/or original material from game play experience may be included here.
Article titles
For the sake of consistency (if possible), article titles, especially articles dedicated to terminology, use the Romaji form. If not possible, then an English equivalent will suffice. An English form is best used when there is either no Japanese equivalent.
Purpose
To the West, this game is a little known game. However, thanks to a few anime like Akagi and Saki, the game has taken a limelight. A number of published work regarding the game exists. Unfortunately, they are mostly printed in Japanese. So, players unfamiliar with the language do not have easy access to this material.
Article use
- Article pages contain information on various aspects of the game from basic rules, terminology, and strategy.
- Talk pages are available for each article to be best used for article editing notes, discussion, and debate.
- Personal pages can be used for every user. Every user has their own userpage. In there, feel free to design your page as you see fit.
- Sandbox pages can be used by every user to test different Wiki features, text, and coding. Simply change the username to this link: User:KyuuAA/sandbox.
Signature
Particularly with talk pages, users are encouraged to leave signatures after comments for identification purposes. This can easily be done by leaving the following text after comments in user talk pages.
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Signatures can be modified under "Preferences" using wiki formatting.
English standardization
Fix it
For any incorrect information, grammar, etc., feel free to fix it with a good faith edit. It is in the spirit of wiki's for content to be edited at any given time for the sake of improving content.
Outside links
It is best practice to collect outside links and gather them under a section labeled as External links at the bottom of the page.
Do not make this section to list categories. Categories appear in their own box at the end of the page, regardless of their position in the source code. If you made the External links section nonetheless, it would appear empty.
As a corrolary, to make use of an External links subsection, it is encouraged to provide some relevant links into that section. Blogs, game links, Youtube video, regular Wikipedia (particularly Japanese Wikipedia), and the like are fair game. Unlike regular Wikipedia, relevance is taking more precedence than reliable. Although, reliable sources are preferred.
Game links
For now, links from Tenhou.net prove to be the most convenient, as the game allows players access to their replays via provided links. Likewise, those games do not expire for an extended period of time. So far, some games dating to 2008 or 2009 are still available for viewing.
Despite the reliance on Tenhou.net, other game sources may be used for reference purposes.