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Style: I figure this ought to be stated clearly. It's mostly consistent with the Chicago Manual of Style and academic style guidelines; except for the Doom-specific stuff that is community usage.
:* "Compet-n", not "COMPET-N".
:* "Doom 3", not "DOOM<sup>3</sup>".
: For source ports , programs and WADsmods, the capitalization should be the one used by the creator. For example:
:* "ReMooD", not "Remood" or "ReMood"
:* "Skulltag", not "SkullTag" or "Skull Tag"
:* "ZDoom", not "Zdoom" or "ZDooM".
* Objects from the games, such as monsters, weapons, artifacts, and so on, should not be capitalized unless they have a proper name. For example, "[[baron of Hell]]" capitalizes "Hell" but not "baron"; "[[Korax]]" and "[[D'Sparil]]" are capitalized but "[[maulotaur]]" and "[[heresiarch]]" are not. "[[BFG9000]]" is capitalized as it is an initialism, but "[[chainsaw]]" or "[[shotgun]]" are not.
 
===Quotes and italics===
* Italics should be used for the titles of complete works, such as books (e.g.: ''[[Masters of Doom]]''), movies, albums (e.g. ''[[Delta-Q-Delta]]''), and games (e.g.: ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'').
** Exception: The games covered by this wiki (Doom, Heretic, Hexen, etc.) need not to be italicized, unless you want to emphasize that you are talking about the game in particular. For example, "Doom" might refer globally to all Doom games (and usually to ''Doom II'' which is the most-played of the classic Doom titles), the [[Doom engine]], and other related things; whereas "''Doom''" refers specifically to the first three-episode Doom game.
* Quotes should be used for the titles of short or fractional works, such as book chapters, music tracks, poems, etc.
* Program names (e.g. [[Doom Builder]]), mod names (e.g. [[Suspended in Dusk]]), episode names (e.g. [[Knee-Deep in the Dead]]), and map names (e.g. [[E1M8: Phobos Anomaly]]) are neither italicized nor quote-marked.
* Underlines are not used. They are equivalent to italics for handwriting, and no part of this wiki is handwritten.
===Spelling===
* The language of this site is [[Wikipedia:English language|English]]. With regard to [[Wikipedia:List of dialects of the English language|localization]], we follow Wikipedia's convention: there is no single required dialect, but please be consistent within each article. Note however that [[id Software]] is an [[Wikipedia:United States of America|American]] company, and U.S. localization is therefore strongly preferred when using terms that originate from the games themselves (e.g. "[[armor]]", not "armour"). Note that terms which use the British spelling in the original games (e.g. "[[spectre]]", not "specter") should likewise use the British spelling here too.
* The Doom Wiki maintains a [[Doom Wiki:List of common misspellings|list of common misspellings]].
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