The manual of style is a style manual for the articles on this wiki. The manual is adapted from Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Specifically this means the style in which the pages are written, sourced, and categorised.
I am happy to do this myself. I monitor new pages created and do edit them to help them adhere to this style.
Style of writing[]
An article consists of an infobox, brief summary, and up to six headings.
- Events - Written in chronological order. Keep information about the person's life brief if it does not pertain to the circumstances of their death. Most importantly, the description of death should be kept brief.
- News - See 'example' for more.
- Other victims* - Use a bullet list and in alphabetical order by first name.
- External links* - In a bullet list. Common links are Wikipedia, Murderpedia, and Find a Grave. Social media profiles are allowed. Court cases is a sub-heading for links to either transcripts or summaries from either criminal court or appeals court (or counterparts).
- In popular media* - In a bullet list. Order of sub-headings: film, documentaries, television, and podcasts.
- Sources - Insert 'references list'.
*If applicable
Examples[]
- Events - See here.
- News - "For news articles on John Doe, see here." ('here' would link to a page titled 'John Doe/News')
- Other victims - See here.
- External links - See here and here.
- In popular media - See here.
- Sources - See here.
Style of news pages[]
[page]/News[]
This is a separate page for news articles and forum links. Many existing news pages still need to completely transcribed. However, when completed should look like this. When they're longer, sub-headings that separate the articles by months should be added (example).
They follow the style of:
- 1 Jan 2000: Body found in local park • The Guardian
The headline would have an external link to the article.
Style of categories[]
There are a lot of tags. You can copy the following and fill it in.
- Murder victims
- [decade]s murders
- [decade]s murders in [state]
- [decade]s murders in [country]
- [year] murders
- [year] murders in [state]
- [year] murders in [country]
- Add image (if applicable)
- [gender] murder victims
- Murders in [state]
- Murders in [country]
- [Solved/unsolved] murders
- [Nationality] murder victims
- Child murder victims (if applicable)
- Teenagers (if applicable)
- To be written (if applicable)
- Unidentifed murder victims (if applicable)
- Victims of [serial killer] (if applicable)
State or province is only added as a category for murders in the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico and the United Kingdom (i.e. England, Scotland).