Editing Guidelines

Being an evolving encyclopaedia and resource for Frankie Drake Mysteries fans, Editors keep personal opinions and subjective speculations out of all article pages: Please use your Blog page or Talk on the related page for those insights.

Access to some articles are locked/protected by Admin for various reasons especially between seasons; revisit them as most are temporary for registered Editors.

Simultaneous editing does happen and can 'muck-up' the editing process – thus the page; please allow the initial Editor time to complete their process before proofing, especially on newly created pages. We discourage "edit warring" here, be factual and polite, please.

Editing notes for the Summary section on Episode articles: Be concise (keep word count under 1000) and use the present tense. The focus is on the crime(s) being investigated. Usually all other subplots can be placed in the Character Revelation, Continuity, Historical References and Trivia sections. Within these non-Summary sections, we encourage the links to Character and related pages, where more specific details can be added (by editors) and/or discovered. When in doubt about Style, please use British English (Oxford style/Hart's rules) as it is consistent with Canada 1900s under British rule.

About images: High quality is better, of course. Important geeky note about names of image files, it is better that they have ones related to the article as oppose to numbers and/or gibberish. We often use the episode number followed by the episode title, character name, invention, etc.

About internal hyperlinks: While there are no links placed within the Summary section, each Episode article is like a hub with loads of "breadcrumbs" (links) to more information and insights about that episode and related articles. Also, one should be able to link back to where one started exploring, like following a invisible thread in a Crime Link Chart.

About broken hyperlinks: When you see red text, it is a broken link which is usually caused by a misspelling of the link or the page does not exist. Broken links should always be corrected or the false link removed. On the surface it may not seem like a problem, but a broken link is doing some damage to the website: a single broken link can impact search engines, the user experience, and is added to "Wanted Pages" which may be duplicating an already existing article using a different page name.

Before Removing information, Categories, and style syntax, etc., from any article, please discuss your intention first with Content Moderator and/or Admin – especially if it impacts multiple articles.