FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style

This page regards stylistic changes that affect many pages on the wiki. It covers mostly content changes that affect collections of wiki pages, whereas stylistic issues regarding the user interface, or general look and feel of the site, can be found elsewhere.

This page covers two kinds of stylistic ideas:


 * 1) Ideas that have been proposed and need further discussion. (These ideas cannot be implemented over many pages until they have achieved a consensus decision.)
 * 2) Ideas that have already reached a consensus among the FamilySearch Wiki community and can thus be executed over many pages.

If you have an idea to add to the Manual of Style (MOS), see Transforming a Style Idea to a Manual of Style Guideline, and then add your topic to Proposals being discussed section below.

Issues that have reached a consensus decision

 * Use "History" Heading Rather than "Local Histories" in Place Pages
 * Format for Citing and Linking to Works in FHLC, Worldcat (OCLC)

Proposals being discussed (no consensus yet)

 * 1) Access Codes (how to designate whether a linked site is free or fee-based)
 * 2) Portal Page Solution - the Un-Portal
 * 3) Breadcrumb Trails
 * 4) Changing the Font Size or Color of Heading 1
 * 5) Adding References or Links to Books for Sale
 * 6) FamilySearch Wiki Talk:Consensus
 * 7) FamilySearch Wiki Talk:Source Citation Formats
 * 8) Linking to works in the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) and Worldcat (OCLC)
 * 9) Naming Conventions for Geographic Names
 * 10) Disambiguation
 * 11) Interactive Maps and Lists of Sub-divisions
 * 12) Linking to Directory Sites Whose External Links to Paid Sites are Ambiguous
 * 13) "Names, Personal" versus "Names Personal"
 * 14) "Language and Languages" versus "Languages"