Dwilight Daily/Writing
Links to News by Year
Writing Articles
- Do not place articles on the main page. Place articles on the individual subpages organized by month and year. This will greatly aid the archival and organization of the news.
- Use the Links to News by Year section above to select the year, then the month. Add the articles to the appropriate month, and they will be automatically included on all pages that display the news for that month.
- If a page for a specific year/month does not exist, then go ahead and make it. They should be arranged as follows:
- Dwilight Daily
- Dwilight Daily/2007
- Dwilight Daily/2007/August
- ...
- Dwilight Daily/2007/December
- Dwilight Daily/2008
- Dwlight Daily/2008/January
- etc...
- Dwilight Daily/2007
- Dwilight Daily
Writing Style
- Individual writers should write about the events that occur within their own realms, or that relate to their realms. Where major events occur in realms where there is no active writer, anyone may feel free to write about it.
- As much as practically possible, articles should remain as neutral as possible. Being an island-wide newspaper, we want to ensure that we are recording events, and not speculations or opinions. We also want to avoid propaganda wars in the paper.
- When editing someone else's articles, edit for spelling/grammar only, or for verifiable facts. i.e. correct region names if the reporter got the wrong region, but don't change "Realm A won the war" to "Realm A lost the war". Subjective opinions such as that should either be discussed on the Talk page for that issue, or you should write your own article with your own opinion of the matter. However, please keep in mind the neutrality principle.
- All articles should be signed by their author and include a realm icon. Articles about the paper itself, such as pleadings for more writers, major style changes, etc. should be written as OOC and use the MicroDD.png icon: .
Template Usage
The following templates are used for the Dwilight Daily. Template usage instructions are included on the template pages.
- Template:DDNews - Main news articles for single column stories.
- Template:DDNews2 - Main news article for two column stories.