Expectations for Writers

General

When writing an article, the best practice is to read your sources and then summarize them to the best of your ability. Do not simply copy and paste what you have read. It is imperative that the content on ICANNWiki.com be original.

Citation

When linking references, make sure the coding lies behind the punctuation. For example: .<ref>[url SITENAME]</ref>

When listing the reference, use the name of the website instead of the condensed URL (LinkedIn vs. linkedin.com).

When citing an entire summarized paragraph, the citation should go at the end of the paragraph. If there are multiple citations within a sentence or a paragraph, the citation should go after the piece of information it references.

Table of Contents

A table of contents will appear in any article after 3 or more sections are created. Generally this is not necessary, so should you note that a table appears on an article you write it is important that you remove it. The formatting for this is: __NOTOC__ -Those are two underscores (_) on each side of the NOTOC.

Leave table of contents in for LONG articles, i.e., those that require scrolling to view the entire article.