GoodStyle

This is an encyclopedia. Your readers, the queer community of Halifax and friends, should be able to tell what is fact and what is opinion. Write in NPOV, (Neutral point of view) style when possible. When not possible, mark your work as editorial, and if you've got guts, sign it with your name in MyFirstNameMyLastName (or BumpyText) format. If you're unhelpfully critical and anonymous, you'll be cheerfully labelled an AnonymousCoward and your nastygrams will be cheerfully deleted.

If this is your first time, you'll want to also read

• TipsForContributors
• TipsForPowerUsers
• TextFormattingRules

Style tips

• Write one page per idea, one idea per page. You don't need to post the same comment to multiple pages - put your idea on a page by itself, and post the name of the page wherever it's appropriate.
• Date your entries. What you're writing will be read 5, 10, and 20 years from now. Writing "Kevin works at NRG!!" will be out of date at some point, writing "Kevin was hired as a bartender at ClubNrg in 2012–10" won't.
• When possible, include the BumpyText words as part of a sentence. Example: 2012–10–23 MyFirstNameMyLastName writes...
• Crosslink the pages as much as you can. Use FindPage in another window to look up the correct page names as you're writing.
• It's OK to write a big page and then go back and factor it into two different, linked pages.
• Break up big pages visually with lists and headlines.
• If your page is incomplete, mark it as NeedsResearchCategory so that eager future writers and researchers (or those who perform EditorsTasks) can easily find it.
• If your page would be nicer with a picture, mark it as NeedsPictureCategory.
• Pages which end with -Sucks are for constructive, currently relevant criticism.
• Write dates in ISO 8601 format, like this: 2012–10–23. They will be automatically reformatted for display as October 23, 2012.
• Put references and footnotes in double curly brackets like this:

 {{RobinMetcalfe 1995 Personal Communication}}