Historical version 8 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.
- Feel free to add "personal" categories; for example, [Take Kake Here]?.
Dates
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.
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).