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.

Uploads:

• See the upload information page

Disclaimers

• See the Disclaimers.

Sheet Music

• When you add sheet music to an article, submit the article to search engines - like Google and Yahoo: Add a site to Google; Add a site to Yahoo.
• Also, once you have sheet music, for an article, feel free to make similar articles in the Choral Public Domain Library, linking to HymnWiki's articles; feel free to use links for sheet music uploaded to HymnWiki there if there is an article on HymnWiki linking to those files (i.e. if you don't want the CPDL license; also, the links will be helpful for advertising HymnWiki).
• If you have sheet music on a HymnWiki article, feel free to link to it from Wikipedia.

Hymnists

• Poets, composers, adapters, arrangers, and such (of all songs, hymns, etc.) go under the category Hymnists.
• Writers of song lyrics go under both Poets and Hymnists.
• Writers of song tunes go under both Composers and Hymnists.
• In hymnist articles, make sure to list both poetic works and musical compositions, as well as arrangements and adaptations.

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.

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)