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Moving rules on article names into its own section, and adding the object article guideline.
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These guidelines are a summary of the most important guidelines for this wiki, but a more expansive set of style guidelines can be found on Wikipedia at [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Wikipedia Manual of Style]].
==Naming conventions==
===Articles about in-game objects===
Generally, an article written about an object that appears in one game should have a name which matches the name given to the object in the game. If an object appears in multiple games, a more generic article name should be used instead. In both cases, redirect pages should be created to direct links and searches to the correct page. This guideline was adopted as the result of [[Forum:Naming convention for object articles|a community discussion]].
==Article layout==
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Before editors save an article, particularly before adding a new one, the following points should be considered:
; Does the article title and headers comply to [[Project:Manual of Style#Naming conventions|naming conventions]]?
▲: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions Wikipedia's naming conventions] state that each word in the title and headers should be lowercase unless it is the first word or it is always capitalized (Such as names, for example: "Sims", "The Sims", "Will Wright", "Maxis"). The same rules apply to categories, section headings, et cetera. They also state that nouns should always be in singular and verbs in gerund-form (verb + -ing: "'''mak''ing''''' a cake") unless the words are only used in one particular form ("Scissors", for example).
▲: Articles should be named in such a way that each has a unique title. Articles' titles usually indicate the name of the topic. When additional precision is necessary to distinguish an article from other uses of the topic name, over-precision should be avoided. This can be done by adding a disambiguating tag in parentheses (or sometimes after a comma); however in certain cases it may be done by choosing a different form of the title in order to achieve uniqueness.
; Does the article have a logical structure?
: The article should be divided into sections and the sections into paragraphs in a way that makes sense to the reader.
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