Wikipedia:WikiProject Singaporean Arts and Entertainment/Manual of style

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The following is a style guide for articles related to the arts and entertainment scene in Singapore. For general article guidelines, see Manual of Style.

The following is a style guide for editors who contribute to articles related to the arts and entertainment scene in Singapore, and who identify themselves as part of WikiProject Singaporean Arts and Entertainment. Remember that this is only a guide, and may change depending on Wikipolicy or participant concensus.

Participants may quote this style guide by using the numerical system in effect (eg. 3.1.7)

  Please consult the style guide's talk page before making any changes below, and develop a good participant consensus.


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[edit] Article naming

Please refer to the official style guide for article naming.

[edit] General

  1. If possible, make the title the subject of the first sentence of the article (as opposed to putting it in the predicate). In any case, the title should appear as early as possible in the article — preferably in the first sentence.
  2. The first time the title is mentioned in the article, put it in bold using three apostrophes. Here's an example: '''article title''' produces article title. Do not put links in the title.
  3. Unless the title is a proper noun (such as a name) or is otherwise almost always capitalized, the second and subsequent words should be rendered in sentence-case (for example: Stefanie Sun, but List of Singaporean films).
  4. Except in titles of works or in official names, avoid the definite ("the") and indefinite ("a"/"an") articles at the beginning of a page name. This applies even if the subject of the page is usually preceded by the definite article "the" in speech or writing: Thus, for example, Singapore Literature Prize is preferred over The Singapore Literature Prize.
  5. Articles should be properly disambiguated:
    1. If a person shares a name with another, more notable counterpart (eg. Ivy Lee) we must apply a tag in parentheses. Tag the article name with the subject's occupation (hence, Ivy Lee (actress)). If there are others sharing the same name and occupation, only then do we append nationality (such as in the case of Christopher Lee (Singaporean actor)).
    2. If a Singaporean film shares a name with a non-film, disambiguate and use "(film)" in the title (e.g. Bugis Street (film)). If the film shares a name with another film, use "(YEAR film)" and move the existing article to "(YEAR film)" as well (e.g. The Mirror (1999 film)).
    3. If a Singaporean book shares a name with a non-book, disambiguate and append the type of literary work in parentheses (such as "(novel)", "(novella)", "(short story)", "(play)", etc). If none of these apply, "(book)" may also be used. If further disambiguation is needed, add the author's surname in parentheses (such as (Lim novel) or (Baratham short story), for example).

[edit] Lists

  1. A list article's title should be descriptive of the article's content.
    1. Lists should be named "List of..." (eg. List of Singapore International Film Festival awards).

[edit] Article introduction

  1. In every article there should be a leading paragraph where gives a brief description of what the subject of the article is, or what the article is about, before elaborating.
  2. The first mention of the subject of the article should be in bold, and italicized thereafter.
  3. The first sentence should include the subject of the article and describe what the article is in a bare-bones way so a user can easily understand whether they have found the right article or not.

[edit] General rules

  1. Always consider notability (general importance) of a piece of information before adding it to an article. As a general-purpose encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not the ideal place to include any possible information that could be considered useful. In particular, "profile" information such as an actor or a singer's favourite colour, zodiac sign, favourite food, etc. should be omitted unless of particular importance to the article.
  2. Titles of musical albums, books, long poems, films, television serials, plays, and works of visual art should represented in italics.
  3. Titles of songs, short stories, short poems, television episodes, and sculptures should be placed in "double quotes".
  4. A wikilink only needs to appear in the article once - at the first mention. (eg. if Fann Wong is linked early on, it does not need to be linked anywhere else in the article)
    1. The only exception to this rule is when using the following templates: {{details}}, {{main}}, {{further}} and {{see also}}.
  5. In general, abbreviations or other shorthand should be avoided.

[edit] Specific article types

[edit] Biographical articles

For more information, see WP:BIOGRAPHY and Template:Biography.
  1. The introduction paragraph(s) begins with the full name of the person in bold, followed by their name in other languages (if any), a semicolon, and their birthdate, all in parentheses. This is followed by a short statement including their nationality, their occupation and/or what they are most notable for. (eg: Felicia Chin Foon Ling (simplified Chinese: 陈凤玲; pinyin: Chén Fènglīng; born October 24, 1984) is a Singaporean television actress.)
    1. Chinese names should always use {{zh-stp}}, except where the Chinese characters are identical for both Simplified and Traditional, in which case {{zh-cp}} should be used instead.
    2. Birth dates should be wikified and presented in this format: MONTH DATE, YEAR. (Eg: November 23, 1989).
  2. All biographical articles should use their respective infoboxes.
    1. Actors (film, television, or stage) should all use {{Infobox actor))
    2. Musicians and singers should all use {{Infobox Musical artist))
    3. Writers, poets and playwrights should all use {{Infobox Writer))
    4. The "birthdate" fields for all infoboxes should use {{birth date and age}}. If the person was born in Singapore, this should be followed by {{Flagicon|Singapore}} [[Singapore]], which will produce the following: Flag of Singapore Singapore.
  3. The following is a general subsection skeleton for biographical articles.
    1. Biography — The following subsections should be presented chronologically.
      1. Early life — Explain the subject's early life historically using a journalistic style.
      2. Career — On larger articles, this section should be split up into various individual sections roughly corresponding to major events or phases in the subject's career. See Fann Wong for an example.
      3. Marriage and children (if applicable) — Describe the marriage and list the immediate offspring. This section should be arranged chronologically in respect to the Career sections.
      4. Death (if applicable) — Manner of death, legacy, et cetera.
    2. Works/Albums/Filmography — Arranged by year of publication. When necessary, use the wikitable class to arrange information (cf. Fiona Xie).
    3. Awards — Arranged chronologically.
    4. Trivia — Organized using an unordered list (*). Trivia should be integrated into the main article body whenever possible.
    5. References — See WP:CITE and WP:CITET.
    6. External links — Official websites or other interesting and relevant websites. No spam.
  4. Categorise the article appropriately. All biographical articles should be tagged with:
    1. The appropriate occupation category (such as Category:Singaporean writers). Whenever possible, use the most specific category (Category:Singaporean television actors over Category:Singaporean actors). If the categories overlap to a significant extent, however, it is acceptable to use more than one category of this type.
    2. The year of birth category (e.g. Category:1971 births)
    3. The year of death category (if applicable).
    4. Category:Living people (if applicable).
    5. Do remember to pipe-link all the categories with the subject's surname preceding their given name. For example, [[Category:Singaporean film directors|Tan, Royston]]. Note that in names like Alfian bin Sa'at, "bin Sa'at" is not actually a surname, but the name of the subject's father. As such, it is more appropriate to categorise them as such: [[Category:Singaporean writers|Alfian bin Sa'at]]
  5. Finally, add the {{SG}} template to the article's talk page, and don't forget to add the sgae=yes parameter!

[edit] Film articles

For more information, see WP:FILM.
More to come...