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Soyjak Wiki:Manual of Style
This is the Soyjak Wiki Manual of Style, showing you how to and how not to create pages on the site.
Basic rules
- You WILL be creative
- You WILL NEVER use ChatGPT or any other form of AI generated text in articles
- You WILL be funny - use humor, satire and other things to keep the reader engaged.
- You WILL bold the name of the page for its first mention on the first paragraph
- You WILL NOT write informative articles in a first person format (e.g, "We raided" instead of "The Sharty raided".)
- You WILL add links to relevant pages (but only do it the first time something appears, don't add redundant links for no reason)
- You WILL use appropriate formatting
- You WILL use proper grammar and capitalization
- You ARE NOT be writing in a ESL
- You WILL NOT create articles that have nothing to do with soyjakking, except in the SNCA namespace
- You WILL NOT add 67 thrembillion templates to the top of a page
- You WILL absolutely NOT copy the source code of a template to inject directly into an article
- You WILL NEVER EVER EVER create a custom template inside of an existing article, fonts included
- If you really need to make a custom template inside an article, use this.
- You WILL NEVER EVER EVER create a custom template inside of an existing article, fonts included
- You WILL absolutely NOT copy the source code of a template to inject directly into an article
- You WILL keep custom font usage to a minimum
- You WILL NOT use an insane amount of buzzwords and soyslang to make the page incoherent
- You WILL NOT make pages on random namefags.
- You WILL NOT link to user pages in the mainspace without a very good reason, especially your own
- You WILL NOT speak in the first person in articles like it's your personal blog
- You WILL NOT try to get around this by speaking about yourself from the third person (e.g, "DickSucker posted whatever" instead of "A soyteen posted whatever")
- You WILL NOT treat anything in the mainspace like a talk page by trying to write messages to other editors in the article as this is a wiki and not a forum
- You WILL correct errors by changing the text in question instead of writing "Uhm actually it's X" next to them.
- You ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT make peanut gallery comments about pages/sections/headings themselves.
- You WILL refer to times as specific dates and not "X days ago" or especially not "recently" or "yesterday"
- And you WILL BE HAPPY.
Guidelines In Detail
Page Names
- Page names should always be singular, not plural, and the plural version of a page should be made into a redirect to the singular.
- Page names should avoid needless capitalization. "Soyjak variants" instead of "Soyjak Variants". The capitalized version should be made into a redirect. The exception is when the second word is actually capitalized (e.g names and proper nouns) such as "Nikocado Avocado". Exceptions include ethnic groups such as Jews.
- In general, page names should not start with the word "the." For example, "Great Cuckset" rather than "The Great Cuckset."
Templates
Template spam is the easiest issue to avoid.
Are there any templates that may apply to the topic, and don't just tell you things you could know just by reading the first few paragraphs or the infobox? If no, leave it be. Otherwise, you should only add two, or maybe three if the subject is a massive gegbull. Four is okay if you're using the template wrapper (code is {{tw|{{Template1}}|{{Template2}}{{Template3}}{{Template4}}}}), but five is right out. Again, DON'T add similar templates. It might be tempting to add templates that make the screen bright, but it will just get annoying for readers to get flashed with an entire screen full of ugly boxes, and being forced to scroll an entire page length down to get to the actual meat of the article. If the templates take up more than half a page length (assuming a 1080p PC screen and not counting space taken up by your tab bar/searchbar/bookmarks/anything that isn't the wiki page itself), cut it down.
Template rules
- DO NOT directly paste raw template code into an article. Exceptions may be made, but this should still only be done if necessary.
- Don't make templates unless you absolutely know what you're doing. And for the love of science PLEASE make sure there isn't already an existing template with a similar usecase. You ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT make any templates that are just existing templates but more/less extreme. This was what lead to quality templates being nuked.
- Templates must be ordered appropriately.
- Template:Distinguish and Template:Redirect always go at the very top.
- Template:Pizza goes at the top of the article/section if it is about a doxed individual. Does not have priority over Distinguish/Redirect.
- When ordering Header Templates try and order them from widest to shortest (or whatever looks better on the page).
- It is preferred that you put boxless templates AFTER boxed templates.
- Footers (navboxes) go at the bottom of the page, below Template:Reflist.
- Template:Schizo and Template:Topaz are mutually exclusive. If a page is both a gem (or higher) and a schizopost, add the topaz template.
- Another type of template spam is font spam. You can read about what it is, how it looks, and how to clean it up here.
Citations
If possible, include a source to anything you write. To place a citation in the visual editor, use the Ctrl+Shift+K key combination. To place a citation in the source editor, use <ref>citation link</ref>. If you don't have a citation link ready, use {{CitationNeeded|optional description of what needs citing}}
It is advised that you archive your sources (with archive.today or ghostarchive) to minimize the probability of the link rotting. Remember, if it's not archived, then for all anyone can know it didn't happen. Do not use Sharty links as references, they will inevitably expire due to catalog wiping/domain moves/janitor intervention/etc.
Don't add citations to headings or subheadings.
Citations must be placed at the end of the text that they support, preferably PAST the punctuation sign.
All references are kept in {{Reflist}}. Do not substitute with ==References== at the bottom of the page.
To re-use citations in the Visual Editor, click Re-Use. To re-use citations in the Source Editor, add name="(literally whatever)" to the original ref. Then use <ref name="(literally whatever)" /> to re-use it. You can call it "peanut butter and jelly sandwich", for all the wiki code cares,[1][1] as long as both names are identical. If you want be orthodox in the names, you can use ":0", ":1", etc.
- Good:
<ref name="4chan">https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History [https://archive.today/ZcCj8 (archive.today link)] [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8M134 (Ghost Archive link)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20250313223010/https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History (Internet Archive link)]</ref> - Bad:
<ref>https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History</ref> <ref>https://archive.today/ZcCj8</ref>
Dates
When writing dates, check the Soysphere Clock to make sure that the date is accurate.You WILL use the American date format (September 20, 2020). Avoid ambiguous formats like 20/09/2020, 9/20/2020 or 2020/09/20.
All times must be in UTC.
Avoid terms such as now, today, currently, present, to date, so far, soon, upcoming, ongoing, and recently in favor of phrases such as during the 2020s, since 2020, and in September 2020.
ALWAYS include the year when writing a date so the reader doesn't have to guess when it happened. Before writing it, ask yourself if it'd be vague or confusing if you were reading it a few years in the past or in the future. You may only omit the year for brevity if the year was already mentioned within the same section of the article, and hasn't changed since the last mention.
Also, use the {{Date}} template to type out "As of (current date)" so that you don't have to update it every thrembosecond.
Links
Try to avoid putting multiple hotlinks to the same article/site unless absolutely necessary; this helps prevent articles from becoming all blue because someone kept putting links inside every mention of any given term on the page. Stick to linking to something once per page, and put the link in the first mention of the term only.
Grammar
Basic understanding of the English language is critical for your edits to be taken seriously. The editors here are willing to fix Science-honest mistakes here and there, after all, we are all coalesced space dust, and sometimes we may miss on a grammatical error from here and there. The problem begins when entire paragraphs become completely unreadable due to a mixture of the following:
- Lack of capitalisation.
- Inconsistent use of capitalisation (i.e. cobSon Will Always be a geM).
- Severe and repeated spelling mistakes.
- Lack of commas or any sentence breaks.
- A lack of paragraphs, resulting in a giant wall of text.
- Sentences that just don't make any sense.
- Using a language other than English (since the Sharty and Soysphere in general is an English-speaking community)
If you are a genuine ESL and want to genuinely contribute, then the only advice we can give you is to type whatever you want on Grammarly or any type of grammar-correction software, correct your mistakes, and then Ctrl+C the text & Ctrl+V into the page you want to edit. It is not the responsibility of the Soyjak Wiki or its editors to fix your mess. You have to make sure the shit you type in is readable or else your edits are going to be reverted on sight if it's not worth the effort to fix.
As for whether to use American or British spellings, there isn't really an enforced rule but it's advised to not clog the recent changes log by making tons of tiny edits that do nothing but switch a few words to alternate spellings each. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. When in doubt, the majority of the 'ki uses American spellings by default.
Good pages
This is an example of a good page. Use this as inspiration and help for making new pages or editing already existing ones: soyjak.party
Other examples of particularly high quality and well written pages include: /vp/ Trolling Tactics, Cobson, Lee Goldson, Operation 9/11, and Impish Soyak Ears
Bad pages
Here is how NOT to create a page. If you create a page like these on this site, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before:
Miscellaneous
Quoting
Use the Quote template to create imageboard-style quotes, e.g. {{Quote|>walkable cities}}
Multiline greentexts should use the Greentext template; this saves you from having to add the quote template every single line.
>Use the Quote template to create imageboard-style quotes, e.g. {{Quote|>walkable cities}}
>Multiline greentexts should use the Greentext template; this saves you from having to add the quote template every single line.
Notelists
{{Notelist}} is a special variant of the Reflist, reserved for keeping Notes.
Put your note into {{Note|(your note)}}. To put the notes somewhere, use {{Notelist}} somewhere near the bottom of the article or section.
Use this when you have extra information to convey, but it's inconvenient to put the text in the same place (for example, in an infobox for booru posts, where extra text bloats it up).
Also use it when you feel that certain text is causing bloat within the article, but nonetheless is important.
Traditional Method
Traditionally, you could put your note into <ref group="lower-alpha"> and </ref> brackets. For the actual notelist, you would add {{Reflist|group=lower-alpha|custom header=Notes}} to the bottom of the page. This method is now outdated, due to the aforementioned templates being created for the sake of convenience.
Soystorical
If you add a date for something, make sure to add it to the corresponding Happenings page, also make sure to add it to Birthdays if it is a birthday.
Citations
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Soyjak Wiki Guides and Policies Guides: Manual of Style (Template Manual of Style) - Beginner's guide - About - Staff - Coal articles - Collapsing objects
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