Style Guide

<blockquote> This is the Style Guide for this Wiki. To keep the Wiki uniform and readable, please follow these guidelines. </blockquote>

Deployments

Deployment titles:

• Deployment titles should be precise and concise, and an adequate description of the deployment itself.
• Capitalize the initial letter but otherwise follow sentence case.
• Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name.
• Avoid ambiguous abbreviations.
• Do not place definite or indefinite articles (the, a, and an) at the beginning of titles unless they are part of a proper name (for sorting reasons).
• When using city names, and the city is not the most known/biggest city with that specific name, add a descriptive characteristics such as the state or the countries in brackets after the city name. (e.g. Cambridge (MA) for an deployment in Cambridge in Massachusetts.)

Free text

○ The free text should be used to explain a deployment in more detail and to write a short narrative of the deployment. ○ Before blockquotes give a short description about the importance of the quoted text. ○ Blockquotes should explain the deployment in more detail and should contribute to the narrative of the deployment. ○ Blockquotes do not need to be translated but a short summary should be given before the blockquote if the blockquote is not in English.

Uncertain Information ○ Uncertain information should be characterised as either rumoured or speculative. (Refer to the How to section) ○ Include a short description about why the information is uncertain and describe possible speculations concisely. Possibly connect the deployments to other deployments/products/institutions/databases

Cities: • Cities should be named according to their official names. • Cities, for which the English name differs from the original name, use the English name (e.g.The Hague instead of Den Haag) • Cities, which are not the biggest/most known city with that name, add an identifying characteristic such as the state or the countries in brackets. (e.g. Cambridge (MA))

Countries: • Use the English language country name instead of the official country name (e.g. Germany instead of Federal Republic of Germany)

Institutions/Products/Databases: • Use the full name of an institution/products/database instead of its abbreviation. You can add the abbreviation in brackets behind the full name. • Creating a governmental organisation, include the English country name (German Ministry of Foreign Affairs instead of Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

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