User:Moondyne/Principles

Wikisource doesn't have prescriptive guidelines for style and layout—the general principle is to try to emulate the source. I like to apply these further principles:

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1. The reader is unlikely to be using a paper copy. Optimise layout (eg. carriage returns and margins) for a wide-screen with scroll bars, generally avoiding large chucks of vertical or horizontal whitespace, unless the source requires it.
2. Generally ignore paragraph indents in the source. It's problematic when two contiguous pages get transcluded
3. Add interwiki links (wikt: w:) freely, without getting carried away. That is our strength. Otherwise we're just another Guttenberg.
4. Add copious Wikisource links
5. Errors in source should be left uncorrected. Use {{sic}} in the source to alert future editors. I dislike {{SIC}}.