User blog:PullingoffMasks/How not to drive folks who edit the Wiki up the wall

''Subtitled: I don't care if it's the fuckin' Internet, the structure of an efficent summary/literary article is the same in EVERY SINGLE FUCKING language out there. If English isn't your main, I suggest you read up on efficent summary structure in your language.''

''Grammar, yes, I get is a bitch in English, but it does NOT excuse certain errors that I constantly see from some native speakers of the language on this wiki. ''

Shit that folks need to pay attention to
 * A summary should be like a skirt. Short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the essentials.
 * If it really makes no difference to the overall plot, you really don't need to discuss it in the summary.
 * This includes one off love affairs, random (pointless) triva, and if they have pets. No, seriously, we don't need to know about the pets
 * Remove redundancies.
 * If you've mentioned many [somethings] in the sentence, you don't need to put the word (or any of its buddies) in the same sentence. Again.
 * If you've put a word in that encompasses a numerical idea, you don't need to count it out.
 * If you've got a sentence with a list, you DO NOT need to put in 'many different ways'...it's painfully redundant
 * Try to varying how you start your sentences.
 * No, seriously. It is painful to read articles that essentially go "He [something he did]. He [descriptor of why he did it]. He then [next thing he did]"
 * Especially when those three can be made into: "Due to [reason why], he [did something]. After that, he then [next thing he did]
 * Essentially, why bother with two sentences when you can have one that means the same thing?
 * That being said, try to avoid run ons.
 * A trick here is to read the sentence out loud to yourself. If you find that you're gasping for air at the end, it's a run on. Seperate it out into two (or more) sentences.
 * It's means IT IS. Its is the form of it which posesses something
 * It's the most common grammar error on the site and it's driving me freakin' bonkers to edit it time after time after time after time.....
 * Check your spelling.
 * No, seriously.
 * Even if it means you type the page up in a word processing program before c/ping it into the Wiki editing page.
 * Pay attention to your spacing
 * An alot is an adorable fuzzy animal...and overtime does not indicate the passage of time.
 * CAPITALIZATION! CAPITALIZATION! CAPITALIZATION!
 * Fear (concept/eldrich being) is different to fear (concept)
 * Camper (those who've drunk the Ink) is different to camper
 * Servant means there's an explicit something that the person serves.
 * Run/Running/Runner are different to going for a run/running/being a runner
 * Pay attention to number of things and certain words
 * Plural- [items] ARE
 * Singular- [item] is
 * Exception being when a Camper is...and the Camper are
 * Gendered pronouns and you (this, will, at some point, be a much longer post...but until then the Cliff Notes)
 * It - inanimate objects and EAT.
 * NEVER EVER use to describe any human/humanoid of uncertain gender-sex.
 * He/She/They/Xe/Ze/Hir - Human pronouns!
 * They/Xe/Ze/Hir are all handily gender neutral. If you don't know the gender of the character, they are all accepted substitutes.
 * I will edit out any post that refers to a human by the pronoun 'it'
 * This is both my first and final warning on this concept.