User:Moondyne/Principles
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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:
- 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.
- Generally ignore paragraph indents in the source. It's problematic when two contiguous pages get transcluded
- Add interwiki links (wikt: w:) freely, without getting carried away. That is our strength. Otherwise we're just another Guttenberg.
- Add copious Wikisource links
- Errors in source should be left uncorrected. Use {{sic}} in the source to alert future editors. I dislike {{SIC}}.