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===General Conventions=== | ===General Conventions=== | ||
| − | * In the new pages you create, please try to enclose the names of important people, scriptures, key terminoligy, and places within double square brackets. | + | * In the new pages you create, please try to enclose the '''names''' of important people, scriptures, key terminoligy, and places within double square brackets. |
| − | * When including the Tibetan | + | * When including the '''Tibetan spelling''' of name or place, please do so in Wylie. By doing so within parentheses, as well as square brackets, you automatically create a hyperlink to the "Wylie-based" dictionary, which presently has around 180,000 entries. |
| − | * Whenever you are sure, please include a "category" at the bottom of the new page. This will help greatly in special searches. For more about already created categories, see [[Special:Categories]] | + | * Whenever you are sure, please include a "'''category'''" at the bottom of the new page. This will help greatly in special searches. For more about already created categories, see [[Special:Categories]] |
===Spelling=== | ===Spelling=== | ||
* Wylie Spelling, Extended Wylie transliteration | * Wylie Spelling, Extended Wylie transliteration | ||
* How to write Sanskrit names with diacritics | * How to write Sanskrit names with diacritics | ||
Revision as of 06:32, 19 December 2005
General Conventions[edit]
- In the new pages you create, please try to enclose the names of important people, scriptures, key terminoligy, and places within double square brackets.
- When including the Tibetan spelling of name or place, please do so in Wylie. By doing so within parentheses, as well as square brackets, you automatically create a hyperlink to the "Wylie-based" dictionary, which presently has around 180,000 entries.
- Whenever you are sure, please include a "category" at the bottom of the new page. This will help greatly in special searches. For more about already created categories, see Special:Categories
Spelling[edit]
- Wylie Spelling, Extended Wylie transliteration
- How to write Sanskrit names with diacritics