SporeWiki:Cleanup

The SporeWiki is a great source of information about Spore, thanks to the fact that anyone can add information to it. Unfortunately, every person has his or her own view of what an article should look like, what it should be called and if it should exist at all. For that reason, this page exists. It is meant to serve as a guideline for cleaning up existing articles and writing new articles so that a unified format can be used.

First and foremost, editors should read Wikipeda's naming conventions because they have been brought forth by hundreds, if not thousands of veteran Wiki editors.

Dedicated editors are encouraged to go through articles and modify them to conform to these naming conventions. It makes SporeWiki a so much more easy-to-use database of information.

A few points to go through when reviewing an article are:
 * Does the article title and headers comply to 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 written with a leading uppercase letter (Such as names, for example: "Spore", "Will Wright", "Maxis"). The same rules apply to categories, et cetera.


 * 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.


 * Is the article user-friendly?
 * The article should not contain a large amount of images. Only images which are directly relevant, or the most relevant image if there are several, should be used. It is also important that the article is compatible with all the big browers (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox).


 * Is the article grammatically correct?
 * Choice of words, spelling, punctuation...


 * Is the article correctly categorized?
 * A descriptive category makes it much easier to browse information about a certain subject.