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This is a summary of various conventions in use on this wiki, for the benefit of new editors. Information primarily for readers can be found at [[AJW:Information for readers]]. For help with more technical aspects of editing the wiki, see [[AJW:Information for editors]].

== Content ==

The basic idea is that this wiki should present all "significant" publicly known information about Angelina Jordan's [[:Category:Personal|life]] and [[:Category:Career|career]], with factual information cited to specific [[sources]], and things like [[:Category:Articles containing opinions|opinions]] and unsourced [[:Category:Articles containing inferences|inferences]] kept to a minimum.

=== What is and is not allowed ===
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* No personal information that should not be made public, such as her home address. (Duh.)
* No full text of published [[articles]]; summarize them instead ([[Angelina (8) vant «Norske talenter»|example]]).
* No large [[AJW:Image guidelines|images]] or other [[AJW:Media file guidelines|media files]]; we are working within strict [[AJW:storage and bandwidth limits|storage and bandwidth limits]].
* No excessive information about topics unrelated to, or only tangentially related to, Angelina; instead, provide links to such information (e.g., at {{w|Wikipedia}} by using the {{tl|w}} template).
* No content that would violate copyright law. (Note that some content may appear here under a claim of {{w|fair use}}. See [[AJW:Copyrights]] for more information.)

=== Articles ===

A list of all articles currently on the wiki is available in {{local-link|Special:PrefixIndex?prefix{{=}}&namespace{{=}}0&hideredirects{{=}}1|this special "index"}}. If you want a list including alternate titles that {{mw|Help:Redirects|redirect}} to others, {{local-link|Special:PrefixIndex?prefix{{=}}&namespace{{=}}0|this other version}} can be used.

==== Article types ====

Some types of {{tooltip|articles|this term refers to the main content pages of this wiki, as opposed to other things like talk pages, categories, etc.}} follow their own conventions (or will, when those have been worked out). These include articles about:
* [[AJW:Articles about songs|songs]]
* specific [[AJW:Articles about performances|performances]] of those songs
* the [[AJW:Articles about events|events]] at which of those performances took place
* [[AJW:Articles about music recordings|recordings]] of those performances
* [[AJW:Articles about albums|albums and EPs]] that collect those recordings
* [[AJW:Articles about published articles|published articles]] (in both physical and digital media [i.e., online])
* [[AJW:Articles about books|books]]
* [[AJW:Articles about people|people]], [[AJW:Articles about companies|companies]], and [[AJW:Articles about organizations|organizations]]
* …

==== Naming conventions ====

In a nutshell:
* Article titles should be in {{w|sentence case}} (not {{w|title case|Title Case}}, unless they are actually the title of something, like a song). This makes them easier to link to in normal text (i.e., in our articles).
*: ''Examples:'' [[Musical instruments]], not [[Musical Instruments]]
*: ''Note:'' The first letter of any page title is case-insensitive but any subsequent letters are case-sensitive, so [[musical instruments]] is the same page as [[Musical instruments]].
* As seen in the previous item, [[AJW:This is not Wikipedia|unlike on Wikipedia]] there is no preference here for singular article titles. In fact, apart from proper names, article titles often make more sense if they are plural.
*: ''Examples:'' [[Microphones]], not [[Microphone]] (this is a {{mw|Help:Redirects|redirect}} to the other title, which is usually desirable), but [[Book]] (since she only has published one book so far — this can also be changed once there is at least one book ''about'' Angelina)
* Article titles should not include Angelina's name unless there is a very good reason. This is because ''everything'' here is supposed to be about her.
*: ''Examples:'' [[Mother]] (a redirect), not [[Angelina's mother]]
* Song titles should be the actual official title of the song (as determined by {{w|Main Page|Wikipedia}} whenever possible), in {{w|Title Case}} (although some Non-English song titles actually use sentence case), and including initial words like "The" or "A" when appropriate. Do not include quotation marks in the titles of song articles.
*: ''Examples:'' "[[The Christmas Song]]", not [[Christmas Song]] (a redirect) and not [["The Christmas Song"]] (with the quote marks in the title).
* Naming conventions for other things, like events and individual performances, have not been worked out yet.

==== Article structure ====

Apart from [[#Article types|specific types of articles]], there is no recommended article structure. But every article should be placed in at least one [[:Category:Content|category]] by including the code {{tc|Category:<var>Whatever</var>}} at the bottom of the page (replace <code><var>Whatever</var></code> by the name of the desired category).

==== Dates ====
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All dates in articles that are significant in Angelina's life or career should be linked to entries on our [[timeline]] using the template {{tl|d}}. For example, {{tc|d|2006-01-10}} forms the link {{d|2006-01-10}}. Other dates that are not significant should be marked up using the similar {{tl|du}} template, which does not form links. For example, in the article about the Justin Bieber song "[[Lonely]]" (which Angelina has sung), the date that the single was released is marked up as {{tc|du|2020-10-16}}, resulting in the unlinked date {{du|2020-10-16}}. Even if that date becomes significant to Angelina fans later on for some reason, the context in which it is mentioned in that article is not directly related to Angelina, so it doesn't get linked to the timeline.

Dates should generally be given in so-called {{w|ISO 8601#Calendar dates|ISO format}}, commonly referred to as "YYYY-MM-DD". This not only reduces confusion compared to date formats like "{{du|1/10/2006}}" (is that January 10th or October 1st?), it also avoids potential inconsistencies in date formats across the wiki (e.g., "{{du|January 10, 2006}}" vs.{{nbsp}}"{{du|10 January 2006}}"), and simplifies linking to timeline entries, as previously described. (Note that this convention might be changing in the future, since the {{mw|Help:Magic words#formatdate|{{tc|#formatdate}} parser function}} can actually recognize dates like {{#formatdate:January 10, 2006}} ["hover" on the date to see], so this could be used to make linking to the timeline more flexible.)

Note that months (like {{du|2020-10}}) should also be marked up using {{tl|d}} or {{tl|du}}, as appropriate. (''Note:'' Although this is how we have been doing things, this convention '''will''' be changing soon!)

All years having entries in our timeline should have dedicated articles about them that you can link to directly (like [[2025]]). Such articles should bgein with a ''short'' overview of the main goings-on in that year and then end with a section called "Timeline" (just above the "References" section) containing content that will be {{mw|Help:Transclusion|transcluded}} into the [[Timeline]] page. (See [[2025]] for an example of how this is done.)

== User conduct ==

* [[AJW:Namespaces|Talk pages]] ({{aka|discussion pages}}) should be used to improve their associated content/subject pages (e.g., [[Talk:Songs]] discusses ways to improve the [[Songs]] article) or to improve the wiki in general, but should not be used for everyday conversation not tied to the wiki. (The "Email this user" feature can be used to contact a user off-wiki, if that user has enabled it in their [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]].)
* Obviously, comments on talk pages should not include any personal attacks, {{w|doxing}}, or anything of a similar nature. Depending on the severity, such behavior could be grounds for losing ones account.
* Because contributions to the wiki are [[AJW:Copyrights|licensed under a version of CC-BY-SA]], which is an irrevocable license, if a user leaves the wiki for any reason, including being banned from editing (the [[User:Ajwikiadmin|owner of the wiki]] doesn't forsee the latter happening, but it must be mentioned), they will not have the right to demand that their contributions be removed from the wiki. However, they may ask [[User:Ajwikiadmin|the admin]] to delete their user page as a "courtesy" (but not their user ''talk'' page, nor any of their comments on other talk pages, since those typically will contain "evidence" of why they left). Such a request must come from the same e-mail address as the one associated with their account.
* Comments on talk pages should be [[AJW:Signing comments|signed]] by adding four tildes (<code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>) at the end, or by pressing the equivalent button in the wiki editor, if such a thing exists.
* Contributions to non-talk pages should not be signed. References to users in articles might be necessary in some cases to identify the source of information, but otherwise should be avoided.
* As a practical matter, the owner of the wiki, [[User:Ajwikiadmin]], who covers the cost of its continued existence, has final say about how the wiki operates. [[User:Dcljr]] is the same person.

== See also ==

* [[AJW:Compared to Wikipedia]]
* [[AJW:General disclaimer]]

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