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Comment author: badger 08 April 2009 07:48:50AM *  2 points [-]

I'm considering starting a style guide. I'll try to reflect current usage as best I can. Does anyone have any suggestions? Eliezer, I'm looking to you specifically as you have written the most.

Some points of style off the top of my head:

  • Less Wrong and Overcoming Bias are each two words.
  • Per ciphergoth's suggestion, we are sticking to the Wikipedia convention that article title should be all in lowercase, except for the initial letter and proper names. In the article body, should we do the same or use EY's more liberal cap style?
  • I'm half seriously considering to only cite OB/LW authors if they are not EY
  • Article references should be based on the References template. When creating an article, add {{subst:References}} to the bottom, save the article, and then fill in as needed.
Comment author: ciphergoth 08 April 2009 07:58:22AM 0 points [-]

Why subst the references template?

Comment author: badger 08 April 2009 08:14:37AM 0 points [-]

If someone were willing to make a template that we could pass references as parameters to, that would be great. I might be up to it later, but as it is, I think we'll do fine inserting the code and then adapting it to the articles' needs.

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