Talk:Style guide

Singular or Plural pages?
I just renamed the Ship page to Ships and put a #redirect for ship. The page talks about all ships, multiple types even! As I started fixing links, I noticed most prose says simply "ship" so would use the redirect. We should definately have pages for both, one being a redirect. What should "policy" be on which is the actual page? I'm inclined to go plural for ships, skellies, and other things that are generally discussed in plural. Part of my logic is that this is like an encyclopedia, describing things, not a dictionary defining the word. Thoughts? --Callistan 17:44, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I think your logic for the ship redirect is sound. Swords, skellies, etc. should probably be plural.  I think either singular or plural is fine, depending on what is used in-game most often.  For instance, I used elderberries rather than elderberry.--Yaten 17:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm a little concerned about using plurals for the page names. There are lots of times when the phrase "board a ship" would be useful, for example.  It seems like extra work to have to write "ships|ship" all the time.  Especially since Wiki makes it easy to write things like [ship]s to add plurals.
 * In the end, if there are redirects for the singular and the plural, it won't matter too much, but it does seem like a lot of extra entries. As for "elderberries", I'm sure there will be a few exceptions like that, but I'm really in favor of using the singular whereever possible.  --Barrister 18:38, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with barrister. The fewer redirects the better and wiki provides an easy way of doing plurals while having the actual page be singular. --Lessah of Midnight 18:51, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I am going to come down very firmly saying that we should follow the general wiki guidelines as closely as possible for this issue. In paticular |The Wiki Naming Conventions on nouns --Shagie 01:48, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Got to admit, I still like the plural form, but 1) excellent argument is made for singular and 2) I do so love consistency in documentation... my minds been changed. --Callistan (talk)  02:24, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Style Guide
We need a style guide for new people coming to this site to figure out what the best practices are for certaing material and things that have already been mutualy agreed upon. This should reduce the time it takes for a new person and also acts as a consistent guide for us when deciding if we need to edit something or not. --Shagie 22:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Acronym or spelled out?
PvP or player vs player? NPP or non-player pirate? Of course both should have the proper redirects for one to the other, but I believe that the fully spelled out form is the better one to use in all cases. --Shagie 00:07, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)