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:


 * 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.