Fairfaxpedia:Manual of Style

While fairfaxpedia is designed to be a community resource, we would like the content on the site to conform to a shared style. Unless otherwise specified below, use.

Article Names
Follow, essentially using the most common name for the subject.

Category Names
Follow, taking care that regular nouns should not be capitalized unless they come in the beginning of the title.

Citations in fairfaxpedia
Like any research project, it is important to use citations in fairfaxpedia articles. Clear, accurate, and easy-to-follow references are the primary goal, and any reference is better than no reference.

fairfaxpedia uses the Cite extension for MediaWiki citations. This extension automatically generates numbered footnotes for an article with the use of a few simple tags.

EXAMPLE
 * - Place after quoted or cited text
 * or - Place at bottom of page to display footnotes

Fairfaxpedia administrators staff use the numerous citation templates built for fairfaxpedia. Otherwise, they use MLA7 for references, and generate them with EasyBib.

Multiple uses of the same footnote
To give a footnote a unique identifier, use

A concise way to make multiple references is to use empty ref tags, which have a slash at the end. Although this may reduce redundant work, please be aware that if a future editor removes the first reference, this will result in the loss of all references using the empty ref tags.

''Content from this page is partly based off of Cvillepedia's Style Guide