Editing Brighter Shores:Style guide (section)

==Grammar and spelling==
===<span id="CASE">Case</span>===
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Item and monster names almost always begin with a capital letter in-game. In prose, this can and usually should be made lowercase (including in links) if the word is not a proper noun. [[BS:UCS|Common sense]] and examples from similar/related items should be used to provide additional cues on if the word should be considered a proper noun.

Redirects should be used to cover pages that are not already all lowercase, or have inconsistent or unusual capitalisation.

===<span id="ABBR">Abbreviations</span>===
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Try not to use abbreviations. For example, use "crossbow" instead of "cbow." The reader may not know what these abbreviations mean.

===<span id="PUN">Punctuation</span>===
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If you are listing three or more things, like different variants, each of them should have a serial/Oxford comma at the end. For example, "dim rays, common rays, and soldier rays" would be correct; "dim rays, common rays and soldier rays" would not be.

===<span id="SPELLING">Usage and spelling</span>===
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American spelling should be used at all times. Almost everything in ''Brighter Shores'' uses the American spelling, making this rule easy to follow; however, exceptions do exist, and in-game spelling should be used in favour of American spelling in those cases.

'''See also:''' {{WP|American and British English spelling differences}}

===<span id="TENSE">Tense</span>===
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A rule of thumb is to use present tense in all cases. For example, articles for quests, professions, items, non-player characters, etc. should be written in present tense. An exception to this rule would be events that have occurred in the past, or for in-game content that has been removed. For example, holiday events that have already occurred should be written in past tense. For future updates and upcoming content that have been confirmed by Fen Research, use the future tense.

* '''Past tense:''' Past events and in-game content that has been removed
* '''Future tense:''' Future updates and upcoming content that have been confirmed; ''See also: [[Brighter Shores:Future content]]''
* '''Present tense:''' All other cases

===<span id="POV">Point of view</span>===
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Articles should be written in the third person or objective point of view. Using the word "you" in articles is informal and should be avoided except if it is inside a quotation; try to use "players" or "the player" instead. For guides, "you" can be used, although the command imperative ("Catch some fish and cook them") is acceptable as well.

===<span id="PRO">Pronouns</span>===
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When referring to an NPC's pronouns, the particular phrasing "their pronouns are..." should be used. Their can be replaced with NPC's name if appropriate."

Other phrasing, such as "uses X pronouns" or "prefers X pronouns" should not be used except where it makes more sense in a particular context.