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Jonah Greenthal at 05:19, 4 February 2023

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Kevin Wang: /* General */

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Kevin Wang at 15:29, 7 August 2022

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Kevin Wang at 15:24, 7 August 2022

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Kevin Wang at 14:25, 28 March 2022

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	*Tables listing the results of annual tournaments should be in reverse-chronological order - that is, with the most recent results first.		*Tables listing the results of annual tournaments should be in reverse-chronological order - that is, with the most recent results first.
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		+	*The current recommendation is for year ranges to be specified using a plain hyphen instead of an em-dash/en-dash/etc. This is purely a question of utility: since double-redirects do not resolve correctly and everything is hand-written (instead of bot-maintained) human-typeability has a premium relative to Wikipedia (where the norm is to use dashes).

	==Player pages==		==Player pages==

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 ===Affiliations===
 Schools that a player has played/coached for should be included as categories on their page, embedded into their infoboxes, and mentioned in the lede of the article. The preference is to include affiliation categories alongside other categories at the bottom of the page, rather than in the infobox next to their years played.
 ==Schools that have changed names==

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	*References to posts on the [[Discord]] should contain the text of the post and a permalink - it is not necessary (and probably inconvenient) to give a link to their profile.		*References to posts on the [[Discord]] should contain the text of the post and a permalink - it is not necessary (and probably inconvenient) to give a link to their profile.
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		+	*Tables listing the results of annual tournaments should be in reverse-chronological order - that is, with the most recent results first.

	==Player pages==		==Player pages==

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 :This is easily achieved by copying the header of a post from the title to the attribution, removing the "Post" text that comes from copying the icon and the newline, and wrapping the title in a braces and the user in double braces.
-*The information used in this reference can be obtained by simply copy-pasting the header of the post in question and removing the "Post" text that appears due to the tooltip of the link icon.
+*References to posts on the [[Discord]] should contain the text of the post and a permalink - it is not necessary (and probably inconvenient) to give a link to their profile.
 ==Player pages==

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	There may be situations when it makes more sense to use the old name, especially when recounting a primary narrative from a contemporary source, or when the situation is more complicated than a single institution changing its name (e.g. when assigning institutional history from a high school that has since closed and merged into another school). The above should be taken as a general guideline and not an ironclad rule; the principle of maintaining clarity, avoiding the creation of duplicate pages such as "1991 Truman State" and "1991 Northeast Missouri State," and simply explaining the situation somewhere on the page is what is important, and there may be different ways to achieve this goal in different situations.		There may be situations when it makes more sense to use the old name, especially when recounting a primary narrative from a contemporary source, or when the situation is more complicated than a single institution changing its name (e.g. when assigning institutional history from a high school that has since closed and merged into another school). The above should be taken as a general guideline and not an ironclad rule; the principle of maintaining clarity, avoiding the creation of duplicate pages such as "1991 Truman State" and "1991 Northeast Missouri State," and simply explaining the situation somewhere on the page is what is important, and there may be different ways to achieve this goal in different situations.
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		+	== Other recommendations ==
		+	Don't make lists of "current club members" or similar. They get out-of-date quickly and are rarely maintained. If you want to do something like this, here are some slightly better ideas:
		+	* Link to your school's all-time roster page on [[NAQT]]'s website. You can find that page via NAQT's [https://www.naqt.com/stats/school/ search tool].
		+	* Label the list "2022–2023 Roster" or something like that. It will eventually become irrelevant if not maintained, but that's a little bit better than it being outright incorrect.
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		+	Avoid phrases like "Pat Smith is a current junior at Central High School", as they are likely to get out-of-date. Something like "Pat Smith is a member of the class of 2024 at Central High School" works a bit better.

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 *Here is a link to the page on formatting on MediaWiki, the platform that the QBWiki runs on: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Help:Formatting]. Be sure to flip through this if you expect to be doing more involved work.
-*Both <nowiki>[[square braces]]</nowiki> and <nowiki>'''triple quotes'''</nowiki> work to bold the subject of a page - though some older pages use square braces, triple quotes is likely simpler.
+*Both <nowiki>[[square braces]]</nowiki> and <nowiki>'''triple quotes'''</nowiki> work to bold the subject of a page - though some older pages use square braces, triple quotes is likely simpler and will work even if the phrase being bolded does not link to the page being edited.
-*Categories should appear at the bottom of the page. The [[:Template:c|c template]] is a shorthand for writing categories.
+*Categories should appear at the bottom of the page with line breaks to allow them to be read more easily. [[:Template:c|c template]] is a shorthand for writing categories.
 *Whenever possible, references to forum posts should be added in as <nowiki><ref>references</ref></nowiki> rather than external links. A clean format is as follows:

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-=General=
+==General==
 Both <nowiki>[[square braces]]</nowiki> and <nowiki>'''triple quotes'''</nowiki> work to bold the subject of a page - though some older pages use square braces, triple quotes is likely simpler.
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 Schools that a player has played/coached for should be included as categories on their page, embedded into their infoboxes, and mentioned in the lede of the article. The preference is to include affiliation categories alongside other categories at the bottom of the page, rather than in the infobox next to their years played.
-=Schools that have changed names=
+==Schools that have changed names==
 To eliminate confusion and a multiplication of unnecessary redirects or duplicate pages, refer to schools that have undergone a one-to-one name change by their current name in most contexts. E.g., "[[Truman State]]" instead of "Northeast Missouri State University," or "Staunton High School" instead of "Robert E. Lee High School," even when talking about a tournament from before the name change. Use in-text explanations or footnotes to clarify as needed.
 There may be situations when it makes more sense to use the old name, especially when recounting a primary narrative from a contemporary source, or when the situation is more complicated than a single institution changing its name (e.g. when assigning institutional history from a high school that has since closed and merged into another school). The above should be taken as a general guideline and not an ironclad rule; the principle of maintaining clarity, avoiding the creation of duplicate pages such as "1991 Truman State" and "1991 Northeast Missouri State," and simply explaining the situation somewhere on the page is what is important, and there may be different ways to achieve this goal in different situations.

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 The information used in this reference can be obtained by simply copy-pasting the header of the post in question and removing the "Post" text that appears due to the tooltip of the link icon.
-=Player pages=
+==Player pages==
-==Infobox==
+{{ib|Example player
-In general, most players should have infoboxes (opt-out). The [[:Template:ib|ib template]] provides a convenient shorthand.
+|schoolcur=[[Black Hills State University]] (2015-current)
-==Years active==
+The most straightforward way to gather the information needed to write someone's page is to visit a page compiling past stats (i.e. NAQT's player pages or [[HDWhite]]) and do a search of the forums to see what projects they've worked on.
 Players should have all their years active at a given institution listed in their infobox. This should include all years the player was active - for instance, if a player played for their school from the fall of 2018 to the spring of 2021, their infobox should say (2018-2021).
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 The [[:Template:active|active]], [[:Template:activehs|activehs]], and [[:Template:activems|activems]] templates are useful shorthands.
-==Affiliations==
+===Affiliations===
-Schools that a player has played/coached for should be included as categories on their page. The preference is to include these alongside other categories at the bottom of the page, rather than in the infobox next to their years played.
+Schools that a player has played/coached for should be included as categories on their page, embedded into their infoboxes, and mentioned in the lede of the article. The preference is to include affiliation categories alongside other categories at the bottom of the page, rather than in the infobox next to their years played.
 =Schools that have changed names=