Historical version 12 of House Style Guidelines (view current version)

Do whatever you want, really; however, here are some guidelines:

  • Pubs and restaurants should have the postcode in the page name.
  • Categories are normally plural. When there would be many of them eg pubs whereas somethings are singular eg Pizza
  • Feel free to add "personal" categories; for example, [Take Kake Here]?.

Dates

If you put your last-visited dates inside <div class="last_verified">Your info here</div> then they'll be easy for Guide visitors to identify.

We're adding dates to all writeups, so people can get an idea of how up-to-date the information is. Just something like "Last visited by Kake on 10 January 2007", and/or "Food last sampled by Billy and Bob on 31 March 2007".

Locales

Suggested locales for a page:

  • name of area
  • major part of postcode e.g. SE16

Don't put individual pages into locales like North London, South London, etc; you want things like Bermondsey and Soho. An "area" might be an official council ward, or just local terminology. If in doubt, use the term you'd use to describe the location to someone else, e.g. "It's in Soho".

Possibly helpful links include:

Note however that ward names are not always good locales. For example, "Riverside" in the London Borough of Southwark is practically meaningless.

Some places might be considered to be in more than one area, since areas do overlap. This is fine; just put the place in both. See for example Angel, SE16 4NB, which is on the border of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe; or anything in, say, Locale Isle Of Dogs, which is completely contained in Locale Docklands.

Photos

The main photo for a pub, restaurant, etc should be a view from the outside, to give people some idea of what they're looking for when they're trying to find the place (see for example Zipangu, WC2H 7JJ).

For takeaway-only places, i.e. where the appearance of the physical building is likely to be irrelevant (due to phone ordering and delivery), a photo of the food might be better — though it has to be a photo of actual food purchased from that place, not, for example, a generic stock photo of Indian food for an Indian takeaway.

Locales and categories can have photos too, though this is less of a priority at the moment, since we're concentrating on getting photos for pubs, restaurants, and Tube/rail stations. Stock photos are fine for food categories (see for example Category Bagels).

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