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FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
This style guide gives direction on how FAIRwiki pages should be formatted and organized. Adhering to the approved style will help you create professional and appropriate wiki articles.
This article does not explain how to create pages or use Mediawiki markup language. For help with that, see Help:Editing.
If you have any questions about or suggestions for the style guide, please contact Mike Parker at mparker AT fairlds DOT org.
Never, under any circumstances, put a person's name, email address, or other personal information in a wiki article without his or her express permission.
This rule includes answers from the FAIR list copied to the wiki.
In general, pages should be organized as follows:
==Criticism== (heading2) A brief explanation of the criticism. ===Source(s) of the criticism=== (heading3) Anti-Mormon books or web sites where the criticism originated ==Response== (heading2) The response should be brief and summary in nature. ==Conclusion== (heading2) A summary of the argument against the criticism. ==Further reading== (heading2) ===FAIR wiki articles=== (heading3) *Links to related articles in the wiki (bulleted) ===FAIR web site=== (heading3) *Links to articles on the FAIR web site; Topical Guide entries go first (bulleted) ===External links=== (heading3) *Links to external web pages (bulleted) ===Printed material=== (heading3) *Printed resources whose text is not available online (bulleted)
Draft articles are those with limited and/or incomplete content. This should be indicated to the reader by adding a special tag at the top of the page:
{{draft}}
Answers from the FAIR list are articles derived from questions sumitted to the FAIR web site. Indicate this by putting this tag at the top of the page:
{{question}}
Words in headings should not be capitalized, except for:
Remember, the purpose of the wiki is to give quick answers to commonly-asked questions, then to direct the reader to further resources. It is critical that you provide references for additional reading.
Try to always include:
Published works should be referenced in this format (note the use of quotes and italics):
See the example pages, referenced above, for examples of how to format different types of citations.
Scripture citations should include a link to the scriptural passage on LDS.org, in this manner:
Guidelines:
[http://scriptures.lds.org/1_ne/2/15#15 1 Nephi 2:15]
Instead of using two hyphens to break apart thoughts within a sentence, use and m-dash:
You can create an m-dash by typing the following code:
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When citing page or date ranges, instead of using a hyphen, use an n-dash. An n-dash is slightly longer than a hyphen, and indicates a range.
You can create an n-dash by typing the following code:
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