Style guide

This is a page detailing words demanded on the content pages of this wiki. This is only prescriptive on pages themselves, not on the discussions for them.

Word choice
Proper names for people and groups can disobey any of these, including for fictional people and groups.

Avoid any slurs when possible. Exonyms are not inherently slurs and vice versa. Try to make everything gender neutral, and avoid using culture-specific terms by default. Also, avoid less-common words with little difference from another word ("skipper" for "driver"). On the flipside, avoid any ambiguous terms that might be confusing without careful context.

Avoid any "of the" phrases or other indirect speech. Keep the language register casual but do not joke about or mock the subject.

Name choice
Note that this only lists people who would not be credited on the wiki, such as historical or legendary figures. Non-person names are universally included.

Spelling choice
Name spellings belong in the "name choice" section above.

Drop doubled final consonants if they begin a compound word. Drop silent e if derived forms are made; except for dyeing, words beginning with a long e, and anything ending in -ce or -ge. Fully spell out past tense -ed.

Use an umlaut (¨) over the second vowel to separately two pronounced vowels that would otherwise make a multigraph (as in coöp vs. coop). In a pinch, a hyphen will do.

Use all dots in an acronym and keep punctuation on both sides of quotation marks.

All of the following respellings in the table below apply to their derived forms: