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.
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.
Article titles
For the sake of consistency (if possible), article titles, especially articles dedicated to terminology, should 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.
Talk pages
In 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
Articles should be written in American English, despite the use of Japanese terminology within the articles and article titles themselves. Japanese terms are simply romanized.
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.
Game scope
This is a wiki on Japanese mahjong, otherwise known as riichi mahjong. Any material pertaining to Japanese mahjong, whether referenced from another work or original content from gameplay, may be included here. Other mahjong variants are not within the scope of the wiki, and should not be included (unless needed for context, e.g., for trivia and terminology sections).
Purpose
The purpose of the wiki is to give readers easy access to English-language material on Japanese mahjong, as most articles and printed works are in Japanese.
Images
Users may upload images with the upload tool, and are free to upload any article-related images, including for user pages. When uploading images, be sure to apply a category to the image typed in the "Summary" box. The image categories can be found here.
Currently, there is no copyright policy in this Wiki regarding images. This may be addressed in the future.
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 corollary, 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, being relevant is more important than being reliable (though it's ideal to be reliable).
Replays
For now, links from Tenhou.net prove to be the most convenient, as the game allows players access to their replays via provided links, and game from 2008 are still viewable. Other game sources and/or YouTube may also be used for reference purposes.
Tenhou.net
As a standard, most replays are accepted. As a general criteria for these replays, the hand featured must be interesting.
Try to avoid the following unless the game/hand is sufficiently interesting:
- Any game played by "NoName", as that ID is a general ID.
- Games with player disconnects, as the disconnect changes the dynamic of the game.
Replay collections
A number of pages hold collections of replays, particularly that of yaku. To be included on the replay pages, they are to be processed to display some meta data and a short commentary. The replay template shows some required fields.