Style Guide

Style Guide is intended to give Pilkipedia a uniform style by making decisions about aspects of language that have more than one answer.

Note: If you require help to edit pages, go to this page.

Names such as Richard

When a person is first mentioned in an article, their full names should be used. Further mentions should be abbreviated to surname only.

Titles

All titles for books, TV shows, magazines, etc. should be italicised, e.g. The World of Karl Pilkington. On a wiki, this is done by surrounding the word with two single quotation marks. The only exception is in the page titles.

Xfm

...is written as 'Xfm' and not 'XFM'. Why? Because that's how Xfm spell it.

Page Titles

When creating a new page, please capitalise all words in the title, e.g. The World Of Karl Pilkington.

Creating Pages

As well as capitalising all words in the title, make sure the page isn't orphaned. That is, check what other pages link to it. You can do this by clicking 'What Links Here' in the toolbox section to the right of page.

Quotes

Any quotes that are added should be done so with a source. Any quotes without a source will be deleted.

On Pilkipedia, when quoting people we use double quotation marks ("), and for quotes within quotes we use single quotation marks ('). For example, "I was was going to the toilet and the man said to me 'the cistern's fucked' so I held it in."

Linking

When writing or editing a page, link everything than can be, or should be linked on the first appearance of a term. Do not link subsequent appearances of the term. Don't be shy in making links. That's the power of the wiki. If a link goes to a page that doesn't exist yet, don't deleted the link, build the page instead.

Dates

The format we've chosen to use is Day Month Year, e.g. 23 September 1972.

Transcripts

See the Transcript Style Guide.

Categorising Episodes

To categorise episodes (e.g. in Category:Episodes without Karl), sort them by their series and episode number, e.g. for the 7th episode of series 2, set the category link to:

Category:Episodes without Karl|2.07 

The padding for two digits is important. This way the episodes are sorted in order and grouped by series in the category.