People (style guide)

This page will describe the preferred format for a page representing an individual person. In brief, a People page may have up to four optional sections:

• an untitled Intro section
• Author Credits section
• Other Credits section
• Links section

Please do not add empty sections to the page. For example, if there are no known links for a person, do not add an empty Links section.

All People pages should be included in Category:People, and sometimes an individual should be included in other categories as well.

Intro

The intro section is informal and isn't given a section header, but it should use complete sentences and present its information in paragraph form.

The intro section is mainly used to tell the reader which other names and nicknames that the person is known by. However, it is also acceptable to add other information, such as what the person's main accomplishment is in the IF community, what the person does for a living outside of IF, and which country the person lives in. But please, be brief.

It is not acceptable to badmouth or criticize a person or the person's IF work in any way. Nor is extravagent praise acceptable. Statements like "Adam Cadre is one of the most reknowned authors in IF" is as far as praise will be accepted.

Avoid giving any details that people might want to keep private, e.g.: which city they live in, names of spouses and children. Sometimes, people request that their real names be kept off of IF sites; please respect their wishes.

Undecided issues:

• Should we ever include the person's e-mail address? Maybe, if we have that person's explicit permission. If so, how should we format it so spammers won't harvest it?
• Should we ever include photos of the person? Maybe, if we have that person's explicit permission.

Author Credits

This section should contain nothing but a bulleted list of the person's IF games. Please read the Game reference (Style Guide) and Game reference list (Style Guide) to become familiar with the format issues involved.

The game reference list should contain any IF games that the person authored, designed, programmed, implemented, ported, translated, illustrated, or remade.

The game reference list should be in chronological order; that is, from oldest to newest. If you don't have complete date info, do the best you can. Games without any date info should go at the top of the list.

The game reference list should list only IF programmed works such as games or stories.

However, do also include:

• Anything entered in any IF game competition, even if it's just a transcript.
• Any game available on the IF Archive or similar archive, even if it's a Z-abuse or similar.

Do not include:

• Demos that are intended solely as learning exercises.
• Library modules, IDEs, utility programs, compilers, etc.

Games based on the author's games should be sub-bulleted underneath the game that the port, translation, or remake is based on. (TODO: Give an example of this.)

Other Credits

This section is used to list any other contributions the person has made to the IF community that was not already covered by the Author Credits section. This can include a wide variety of possibilities not limited to:

• Organized or was an official judge for a competition.
• Authored demos, IDEs, library modules, compilers, interpreters, etc.
• Wrote reviews or articles about IF.
• Editor, author, or publisher of a IF newsletter, IF book, or other IF work.

Avoid inserting credits unrelated to IF here. Things like "Wrote the novel Ready Or Not" should instead be part of the Intro section.

Use a simple bulleted list for this section, using short statements as if you were listing accomplishments on a résumé. In very rare cases, if this section is large and would be more readable if subdivided into two or more sections, then go ahead and divide it. (See the page for Nick Montfort for an example.)

If this person has no "Author Credits" section, call this section simply "Credits", not "Other Credits".

Don't forget to put a period at the end of each statement.

Links

Details of the Links section to go here.