Randomness Guide to London - Differences between Version 20 and Version 13 of House Style Guidelines

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==== Naming issues ====
Do whatever you want, really; however, here are some guidelines:
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* Categories that refer to the <i>type</i> of a thing should be plural (e.g., [[Category Pubs|pubs]]); categories that refer to an <i>attribute</i> of a thing should be singular (e.g., [[Category Pizza|pizza]] and [[Category Breakfast|breakfast]]).
* Categories are normally plural when there would be many of them (e.g., [[Category Pubs|pubs]]) whereas some things are singular (e.g., [[Category Pizza|pizza]] and [[Category Breakfast|breakfast]]).
* Feel free to add "personal" categories -- for example, [[Category Take Kake Here|Take Kake Here]]
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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]], January 2007.", and/or "Food last sampled by [[Billy]] and [[bob]], March 2007.".
<div class="inline_hint">If you put your last-visited dates inside &lt;div class="last_verified"&gt;Your info here&lt;/div&gt; then they'll be easy for Guide visitors to identify.</div>
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If you put your last-visited dates inside &lt;div class="last_verified"&gt;Your info here.&lt;/div&gt; then they'll be formatted slightly differently to make them 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".
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You can find out the ward name by putting the postcode into [http://www.writetothem.com/ WriteToThem] and looking under the "Your councillors" column. Note however that ward names are <i>not</i> always good locales. For example, "Riverside" in the London Borough of Southwark is practically meaningless.
Possibly helpful links include:
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[http://www.haringey.gov.uk/ward_profiles Haringey Council's postcode search] (tells you what ward a given postcode is in)
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[http://www.southwark.gov.uk/Public/Councillor.aspx Southwark Council's postcode search] (as above) - Southwark also have a fairly clunky map thing [http://www.southwark.gov.uk/YourServices/maps/startusingwebmaps.html here]
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The other boroughs probably have similar searches.
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Note however that ward names are <i>not</i> always good locales. For example, "Riverside" in the London Borough of Southwark is practically meaningless.

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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 [[Cedar, SW19 1BA]]).
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]]).
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Locales and categories can have photos too. Stock photos are fine for e.g. food categories &#8212; they don't even have to have been taken in London (see for example [[Category Bagels]]).
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 &#8212; 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.
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Please don't use watermarked photos. Please also try to avoid using photos with people in (though for busy areas this is sometimes tricky).

==== Prices ====

Quote beer prices to
the exact penny. Quote food prices to the penny too, unless they're &pound;n.95, in which case round up to the nearest pound. Thus, a burger costing &pound;5.55 gets quoted at &pound;5.55, while one costing &pound;5.95 gets quoted at &pound;6. If quoting prices, make sure to note down the date on which you determined the price, so people reading your review in a couple of years' time can allow for inflation.

==== Opening hours ====

Use the following format for opening hours: "Mon: 9am-2pm
, 5:30pm-9pm; Tue-Sat: 9am-9pm; Sun/Bank Hol: 11am-3pm". To avoid confusion, use "noon" and "midnight" rather than "12pm" and "12am".

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Other times ====

In line with the opening hours guidelines above,
use 12-hour times (e.g. 7pm) rather than 24-hour times (e.g. 19:00), and "noon" and "midnight" rather than "12pm" and "12am".
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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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 (e.g., pubs) whereas some things are singular (e.g., pizza and breakfast).
  • 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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