Thread:Mark Otaris/@comment-26990529-20150916131324/@comment-4196050-20150916145431

Lazynathaniel wrote: Any tips on how I could make it more 'encyclopedic. It was after all my first thread. Im just getting the hang of things. Hi! Here are some ways to improve the page.

An infobox needs to be added. Under Templates, search for Infobox player and fill out all the parameters that are applicable (when you insert the image, you will need to put the file name in brackets and specify the pixel height, like this:.

The page needs to be from a neutral point of view. This includes removal of all first person point of view (I, me, we, our, my, etc) and replacing it with third person point of view (he, she, it, they, etc). For isntance, saying "I noticed that he is different than other developers because of x, y, z" is considered to be in first person point of view. Instead, you could put down "SoandSo differs from other developers because of x, y, z." In addition, all bias needs to be removed from the page. Words like "nicest, best, popular, evil, stupid, etc." are nondescriptive adjectives and would be considered biased and opinionated. You might consider him the best thing since sliced bread, while another editor might think he isn't all that great. An example of a common biased statement would be "SoandSo is an epic gaming developer known for his popular and amazing places like X, Y, and Z." The words epic, popular, and amazing are considered biased words and would need to be removed from the sentence. It would most likely be rewritten to "SoandSo is a game developer known for creating X, Y, and Z."

I found that looking through other wiki pages and seeing how they are styled was really useful in figuring out how I should format my pages. MrDoomBringer and Shedletsky are two really good pages that show the type of writing style we're shooting for on the wiki.