LPedia:Manual of Style
This is presently an incomplete proposal mainly based on actual practice.
Article and Link Titles
- All titles should be in title case, not sentence case: New York Election Results, not New York election results.
Titles that are names of persons should be in the form of personal name and last name -- Walter Block instead of Walter Edward Block except in situations where there is a name collision this way (Gary Johnson and Gary Johnson) or if that is not the way this person's name is handled in normal day-to-day interactions. Redirects with middle names and initials should be created. Initials have been presented without periods at the end -- Percy L Greaves, not Percy L. Greaves
The fully presented name with all names and titles, unabbreviated if the full names are known, should be in bold in the opening sentence or at least paragraph. ie: Walter Edward Block, PhD and Percy L Greaves, Jr
Among the reasons for simplified names is to reduce the changes of stray red links when the person has an article, and to reduce bot confusion when mining the wiki for data.
Headers
- All headers should be in title case, not sentence case: External Links, not External links.
Needed conventions
Standard Sections for State Party Articles
What are they and what are they named? Not only could this improve consistency, it would also make it easier to set up maintenance bots.
Which tags should go where by default?
Presentation of Lists of Historical Activists
A standardized presentation of names, positions, and years could make it practical to mine the state, county, and similar pages for peopel and information to generate article stubs.