Ukikipedia:Article Guidelines

Here are some basic guidelines which should always be followed when creating or editing a page.

• Do not include wrong information! This should go without saying, but always confirm with other users that everything in your article is correct. Be very careful about this! Even the slightest misconception is unhealthy to the site. The Timestop article is a very good example of this. It stood (and still does stand) filled with complete misinformation at every point in the article for an entire month.
• Use proper grammar, spelling, and English writing conventions. This is very important! Bad writing gives a bad impression on users. Ukikipedia is a collection of expert knowledge, and it should reflect that. If you do not know how to use proper grammar, you should either learn it (it's an extremely useful skill!) or join the Discord server and put out suggestions for articles there.
• Use conventional Wiki/Wikipedia style conventions. You can find these on Wikipedia, but I've listed the most important ones below.

Wikipedia style conventions

General conventions

• Make the title of the article, the title of the current subsection, and any synonyms bold the first time they are mentioned only. This should only be in the opening paragraph.
• Only link to other articles once. If the subject is mentioned again, don't link it unless the article you're writing is very long and it has been a while since the last link.
• Be as concise as possible! However, don't sacrifice information for concision.

For example:

   Vertical Speed Conservation or VSC is a glitch where Mario can store vertical speed (VS) and re-activate it later. VSC is mostly used for Challenges such as the A Button Challenge. In the A Button Challenge (or ABC for short), it is most commonly used with a dive recover. The VS is then activated by punching to an edge, completing the VSC.

Is a very bad opening paragraph. It should look like this:

   Vertical Speed Conservation or VSC is a glitch where Mario can store vertical speed (VS) and re-activate it later. It is mostly used for Challenges such as the A Button Challenge, where it is most commonly used with a dive recover. The VS is then activated by punching to an edge, completing the VSC.

(In a real article, all the info on the ABC should be relegated to its own subsection.)

Everything else

Please read the style guide in its entirety: Wikipedia Manual of Style

Try to follow it in main articles. You might loosen up a bit of the tighter grammar restrictions due to this not being as formal of a site.

Common Mistakes

• Do not put words alongside reference links (i.e. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ</ref>, not <ref>BitFS 0x A presses on N64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ</ref>). The meaning of the reference will be obvious from context.
• Use parentheses properly! Examples:

   DO:
   A sentence (parenthetical). Another sentence.
   
   DON'T:
   A sentence (parenthetical.) Another sentence.
   A sentence. (parenthetical.) Another sentence.
   A sentence (parenthetical.). Another sentence.
   A sentence. (parenthetical.). Another sentence.
   A sentence. (Parenthetical). Another sentence.
   A sentence. (Parenthetical) another sentence.
   A sentence (Parenthetical) another sentence.