Manifold Atlas: Instructions for writing
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This page describes the scientific writing style of the Manifold Atlas.
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1 Scientific style
- The Manifold Atlas aims to be an reliable scientific reference for researchers and students of manifolds.
- Please write rigorously and clearly for a topologically literate audience:
- i.e. assume that your reader has taken relevant introductory graduate level courses for the area you are covering.
- Please give proofs or references to peer-reviewed journals for all non-elementary statements.
- As far as possible define the terms and concepts you use:
- For articles in the Manifolds please reiview the suggested structure.
2 The evolution of a page
- It will typically take many edits for a page to reach maturity.
- New and young pages bear the Stub template indicating that they are under development.
- After a page reaches maturity, the editorial board will organise for it to be refereed.
3 Open-editing pages
- Open-editing pages can be edited by any registered user.
- Open-editing pages offer the possibility of massively parallel collaboration for recording, organising and developing information about manifolds.
- Open editing-pages require scientific co-operation and team-work a la Wikipedia.
- You should feel free to:
- edit typos,
- fix mistakes,
- add hyerlinks,
- add new sections and subections,
- improve presentation and organistaion (but think carefully here).
- You should think carefully before making significant changes to existing text.
- When in doubt about a prospective edit use the discussion page or email the other active users on the page.
- If there there is no response after a couple of days, proceed with your planned edit.
- In general questions of style or point of view should first be raised on discussion page before edits are made.
- After making significant changes, it is helpful to leave a remark on the discussion page explaining or describing your edit.
4 Author-based pages
- Author-based pages can be edited only by a single author or team of authors:
- Author-based pages offer the possibility for an expert or team of experts to develop information about manifolds in public and over the web.
- Besides having restricted editing, author-based pages are open to development, editorial review and discussion just as an open-editing page.
- All users can write on the discussion pages of author-based pages and provide feed-back, questions or suggestions.
- A new author can be added to an author-based page at any time if all the current authors agree to it.
- If all authors agree, an author-based page can be released to become an open-editing page at any time.
- However this is, in general, an irreversible process.
- The author template appears at the top of each author-base page making the responsible authors immediately visible.
- Please list the names of authors alphabetically.