HymnWiki:Editing Conventions

Most of these editing conventions are not absolute; which ones are indicated under Absolute. Please follow them unless you have a good reason not to do so.

Absolute

Acceptable Content:

• See Appropriate Content for HymnWiki

Copyrights:

• See the copyright page.

Hymnists

• Poets, composers, adapters, arrangers, and such (of all songs, hymns, etc.) go under the category Hymnists. If you do make separate "poets" and "composers" categories, don't forget to add the Hymnists category.
• In hymnist articles, make sure to list both poetic works and musical compositions, as well as arrangements and adaptations.
• If multiple hymnists of the same name exist, or if desired for further identification, put the birth and death years in parenthesis after a hymnist's name (for the article title): i.e. Robert Robinson (1735 - 1790) instead of Robert Robinson, as there may be several hymnists named Robert Robinson. If the years are unknown, try some other identifier in parentheses.

Compilations

• For the article name of a compilation, put the full name of the hymnal, followed by a comma, followed by the year (if known).
• If the hymnal has a common name, plus the name of the publisher in parentheses in the article name, after the year.

Category Casing

• If there is already a category or some such with a certain casing, don't bother making a new one with different casing: i.e. if Spanish Compilations is a category, don't bother making one called Spanish compilations; there's no need for both, and one will be missing some unless someone is doing a lot of work.

Misc.

• List the poetic meter for hymns (note if they differ from tune to tune, as the lyrics are sometimes repeated, depending on the tune); meters should be listed in the categories for the hymn.
• List tune names if known, and what other songs they are used with (perhaps even in their own article).
• Avoid obscurity when referring to authors of works (i.e. 'composer'/'poet'/'arranger'/'adapter' instead of 'writer'/'author'; however, 'hymnists' is the preferred category for all of these - the articles about the hymnists themselves should say precisely what they are)