Angelina Jordan Wiki:Guidelines

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 life and career, with factual information cited to specific sources, and things like opinions and unsourced inferences kept to a minimum.

What is and is not allowed

For more details see AJW:General content guidelines.

No personal information that should not be made public, such as her home address. (Duh.)
No full text of published articles; summarize them instead (example).
No large images or other media files; we are working within strict 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 Wikipedia^↗ by using the {{w}} template).
No content that would violate copyright law. (Note that some content may appear here under a claim of fair use^↗. See AJW:Copyrights for more information.)

Articles

A list of all articles currently on the wiki is available in this special "index". If you want a list including alternate titles that redirect^↗ to others, this other version can be used.

Article types

Some types of articles follow their own conventions (or will, when those have been worked out). These include articles about:

songs
specific performances of those songs
the events at which of those performances took place
recordings of those performances
albums and EPs that collect those recordings
published articles (in both physical and digital media [i.e., online])
books
people, companies, and organizations
…

Naming conventions

In a nutshell:

Article titles should be in sentence case^↗ (not 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, 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 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 Wikipedia^↗ whenever possible), in 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 specific types of articles, there is no recommended article structure. But every article should be placed in at least one category by including the code {{Category:Whatever}} at the bottom of the page (replace Whatever by the name of the desired category).

Dates

For more details see AJW:Dates.

All dates in articles that are significant in Angelina's life or career should be linked to entries on our timeline using the template {{d}}. For example, {{d|2006-01-10}} forms the link 2006-01-10. Other dates that are not significant should be marked up using the similar {{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 {{du|2020-10-16}}, resulting in the unlinked date 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 ISO format^↗, commonly referred to as "YYYY-MM-DD". This not only reduces confusion compared to date formats like "1/10/2006" (is that January 10th or October 1st?), it also avoids potential inconsistencies in date formats across the wiki (e.g., "January 10, 2006" vs. "10 January 2006"), and simplifies linking to timeline entries, as previously described. (Note that this convention might be changing in the future, since the {{#formatdate}} parser function^↗ can actually recognize dates like 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 2020-10) should also be marked up using {{d}} or {{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 transcluded^↗ into the Timeline page. (See 2025 for an example of how this is done.)

User conduct

Talk pages (a.k.a. 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 Preferences.)
Obviously, comments on talk pages should not include any personal attacks, 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 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 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 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 signed by adding four tildes (~~~~) 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.