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This '''Manual of Style''' is a guide applicable to all {{SITENAME}} articles. It reflects {{SITENAME}}'s standards, and is intended to help editors to produce articles with language, layout, and formatting that are consistent, clear, and precise. The goal of {{SITENAME}} is to make the whole encyclopedia easier, intuitive to use and the most definitive source for all Destiny information.

=== Stability of articles ===

Editors should not change an article from one guideline-defined style to another without a substantial reason unrelated to mere choice of style, and that revert-warring over optional styles is unacceptable. Where there is disagreement over which style to use in an article, start a discussion on the talk page of the article and try to find ways to overcome the issue.

=== Follow the sources ===

Many points of usage, such as the treatment of proper names, can be decided by observing the style adopted by high-quality sources. Unless there is a clear reason to do otherwise, follow the usage of reliable English-language secondary sources on the subject. If the sources can be shown to be unrepresentative of current English usage, follow current English usage instead—and consult more sources.

=== Styles ===

*'''Spelling''': unless written as otherwise, the preferred spelling is American English.

=== Do not use conversational style ===

*Check your spelling and grammar. Do not use internet slang (ex. "How r u?" or "c u 2nite"). If you are not 100% sure about the way a word is spelled, type it into <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.google.com/ Google]</span> or <span class="plainlinks">[http://dictionary.reference.com/ Dictionary.com]</span>. If you know that you are not the strongest speller, compose your edits in a word processor like Microsoft Word or use an Internet browser like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, which has spell-checking built in.

== Editing ==

=== Avoid making multiple edits in an article ===

A simple way of avoiding this problem is to practice using the Preview button which allows you to review the contributions you made before saving them.

If you are making a minor edit (e.g. fixing a spelling error or tweaking formatting), check the "This is a minor edit" button below the Summary box before saving the page. Again, this will make things easier for the rest of us.

The preview button is right next to the save edit button, and is there for a reason. It's your own personal spell checker, link checker, whatever-else checker. Use it. Users that purposefully do not preview edits as to inflate their edit count are not well regarded amongst Destinypedians, and you may find yourself in trouble with an administrator.

=== Do not sign your edits ===

=== Do sign your talk posts ===

If you make a post on a ''discussion'' page, please sign it. If you have a user account, this is as easy as typing <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code> at the end of your post. If you do not have a user account, just sign it with your name or nickname so everybody can tell who is who when reading long conversations. Even better, create an account anyway and use the signature method described. There really is no reason not to if you are going to stick around.

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*Avoid uploading pictures you don't have a purpose for, unless they can add to a subject gallery. Before uploading, read [[Help:Images]] for more information on image use.

==See also==

*[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:MOS|'''Wikipedia''':''Manual of Style'']]

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