FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style

This page links to other pages describing stylistic guidelines which have reached consensus among the FamilySearch Wiki community.

Process to transform a style idea to a wiki-wide guideline
If you have a stylistic idea that you feel should be adopted on many wiki pages, you can follow a procedure to try to transform your idea into a site-wide guideline. For instance, if you feel every page on the wiki should have a green background, you would follow these steps:


 * 1) Create a new page called FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages.
 * 2) Link to FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages from FamilySearch Wiki talk:Manual of Style.
 * 3) Add to Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages a short blurb which objectively describes the proposal and which links to FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages (this is the Discussion section of the page you created).
 * 4) Add to the Discussion page (FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages) the reasons why you feel your idea should be adopted. You needn't speak objectively on the discussion page -- you are trying to convince others that your idea is a good one.
 * 5) Invite others to add to the discussion page any reasons why they like or dislike the proposal, or how they might improve it.
 * 6) When consensus is reached, transfer relevant details of the discussion from the discussion page to FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages.
 * 7) Create a link from FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style to FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages.
 * 8) Remove the link to FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages from FamilySearch Wiki talk:Manual of Style.