User:Gnostic804/..planstyle..

Style guide for project pages
Personal guidelines applicable to the planning subpages only.

Underline for emphasis
Use underlined text for emphasis on project pages, instead of italics or boldface. Underlining is easier to spot than italics when rendered in sans-serif typefaces, and bolding is being reserved for showing menu or outline hierarchies (see subsection on hierarchies).

Showing hierarchies horizontally
Enclose outline or menu hierarchies in bold markup. Easy to code, easy to notice, embedded linking is still available. Examples:
 * GUI menu: (Screen Capture Elite icon menu) > Capture selection on page > Copy to clipboard
 * Outline, no links: Style guide for project pages/Showing hierarchies horizontally
 * Outline with links: (User:Gnostic804/Planning)/§ List of planning support pages/§ Style guide for project pages > /§ Showing hierarchies horizontally

Page naming
Planning pages ("project" pages) are named with one leading dot (en-UK: "full stop"), a short and meaningful abbreviation, and one trailing dot.

Planning support pages are named with two leading dots, a short and meaningful abbreviation, and two trailing dots.

Completion tracking
When the entire plan of a project page and every task and item in it is finished and all reusable markup and text fragments have been copied to the /..clips.. subpage for future use, then delete the project page (may need WP Admin assistance to do this), and remove the subpage's link on the /Planning subpage.

Enclose a completed task's text in &lt;del&gt;&lt;/del&gt; markup. This retains the text and its position within the outline level for future reference or re-use until the entire project is completed.

When all tasks of a level-2 subsection are completed, but other tasks on the planning page are still pending, consider moving (cut + paste) the subsection to a "Completed tasks" level-1 section at the bottom of the planning page. This method eliminates the need to edit the subsection wikimarkup to change the outline level, but requires that the level-2 subsection be retained in its original position in the outline until all its tasks are done. This means that the overall granularity of the planning page be kept at a high level, particularly for independent tasks: more, rather than fewer level-2 subsections, and fewer (if any) level-3+ subsections. While it may seem okay to simply delete a completed level-2 subsection, surprises can still occur before the entire plan has been executed and the entire project page has been deleted.

"Redlinks" ≈ [page absent | redirect failed | misspelling]
Use WP's redlink behavior to keep track of whether a page or redirect exists yet, or, perhaps, whether the link or redirect text is misspelled.