Clicklaw Wikibooks Style Guide

This style guide is for pages on the Clicklaw wiki, including Legal Help for British Columbians.

Page titles and in page headings

Page titles

The title of a page should be recognizable (as a name or description of the topic), concise, in plain language, and consistent with the titles of related pages.

The following points are critical:

• Use "sentence case", not "title case"; that is, the initial letter of a title is capitalized. Otherwise, capital letters are used only where they would be used in a normal sentence.

In page headings

Headings within a page are produced by typing multiple equal signs. A primary section heading is written ==Words in heading==, a subsection below it is written ===Words in heading===, and so on (a maximum of five levels is possible). Spaces between the equal signs and the heading text are optional, and will not affect the way the heading is displayed. The heading must be typed on a separate line. Include one blank line above the heading, and optionally one blank line below it, for readability in the edit window. (Only two or more consecutive blank lines will add more white space in the public appearance of the page.)

The provisions in Page titles (above) generally apply to in page headings as well (for example, headings are in sentence case, not title case). The following points apply specifically to in page headings:

• Headings should not normally contain links, especially where only part of a heading is linked.
• Section and subsection headings should preferably be unique within a page; otherwise section links may lead to the wrong place.

In law, a document demonstrating ownership of a thing. See "ownership."

(1) In law, a court proceeding; a lawsuit; an action; a cause of action; a claim. (2) A historic decision of the court; case law. See "action," "case law, " "court proceeding," and "precedent."