Standards
We expect a high standard of our editors so we require the following for all pages unless exemption has been given by an Admin:
- Accuracy: Ensure information is accurate and up to date, this can be done by ensuring you are using the offical sources for information. Always cite when required (E.g: Quotations, benchmarks, release dates), a good guide is the Wikipedia Citing Sources Guide.
- Impartiality: Pages should be unbiased, if there has been a controversy on a specific topic make a section on the page regarding it and ensure that you remain unbiased at all times to ensure the reader only is given the facts. E.g: Instead of saying "xyz package is bad," say "xyz package has received criticism for...".
- Consistancy: Ensure that your page is consistant with others in both the formatting and the terminology, e.g. for the x86-64/AMD64/x64 architecture it should always be reffered to by AMD64 as it is its offical name. Further details on this can be seen in the Contributing#Formatting section.
- Courtesy: If you are doing any major changes to existing pages make sure to ask any active editors of the page or an admin to ensure that it meets our requirements and other editors are in agreement with the changes.
Other things to keep in mind when making edits include:
- Ensure that your page appropriately links to other pages by adding links when neccessary and you update list pages (E.g: Linux Distributions) when making a new entry.
- Categorise page when needed, you can do this by selecting the hamburger menu then the categories button, please also avoid making new categories unless its required.
- Don't make a new page unless you can add worthwile content to it.