Randomness Guide to London - Differences between Version 8 and Version 7 of House Style Guidelines

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==== 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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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.
  • 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 experimenting with 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 node:

  • 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.


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