Contract Bridge:Style guidelines
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[edit] Article Names
See the Wikipedia guidelines for article names. In particular, names should be singular nouns, and all subsequent words after the first should be lowercase unless proper names. Avoid redirects by smashing plurals and other added letters after the link, as in [[Negative double]]s.
[edit] Different Opinions
There is no one correct way to bid. One purpose of this wiki is to document each common system/convention, including all the common variations of each. Some time will be needed to see how this will pan out. Disambiguation pages and/or articles classified by system (either with parentheses, as in "Opening (SAYC)" or possibly with a slash, as in "SAYC/Opening") should allow all the different treatments of a convention to coexist. When differences are minor (i.e. Blackwood) we can have a single page and simply mention the variations in it.
[edit] Categories
All articles should belong to at least one category. Additionally, it should be avoided to have the same article in both a category and its supercategory (i.e. both "Systems" and "Standard American Yellow Card"). To add an article to a category, add a link [[Category:Category name]] to the end of the page. Category links may contain a sorting key, such as the article One over one having the category [[Category:Suit auctions|1 over 1]] so that it is sorted with the numbers, rather than under 'O'. All articles with written-out numbers should be sorted numerically.
[edit] Templates
There are a number of templates available for various purposes. First are {{C}}, {{D}}, {{H}}, and {{S}}, which produce ♣, ♦, ♥, and ♠, respectively. Additionally, the 28 suit bids all have templates {{1C}}, ..., {{7S}} which automatically link to the correct articles and should be preferred for lists of bidding options. This facilitates creating backlinks for the bid pages.
[edit] Tables
The Tables on this wiki were created with the FancyTable extension, but Wikia does not currently have it installed. They can still be created and edited with the standard Wiki-Pipe syntax, but it's a bit harder to maintain. We should hopefully get the extension installed soon.
[edit] Stubs
A number of Category:Stub templates are available for use.
