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<s>Our top priority at jfwiki.org is to support the work of Joe Frank, to
broaden his audience where possible, and to facilitate discussion and
analysis of his work. Because of our respect for Joe Frank and his work, we have sought to
establish an editorial policy which is respectful of his intellectual
property while satisfying the needs of his audience to study his body
of work.  We therefore ask all wiki contributors to follow these
guidelines when editing or creating a synopsis of a Joe Frank program:
* Be as terse as possible. The goal is to be able to identify a show, without giving away its nuances.
* Try to identify and articulate the themes of a program, rather than providing an inventory of the literal details of the narrative from moment to moment.
* If it is absolutely necessary to reveal a surprising or sensitive detail in a synopsis, consider adding a <nowiki>{{Spoiler}}</nowiki> tag at the top of the article.
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== General ==
== General ==
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Please use title case for all words in a title, including articles.  
Please use title case for all words in a title, including articles.  


<s>*Since series titles are sort of special, we capitalize all of their words. Hence: "[[Work In Progress]]". Exception: "[[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]", since that's really two series joined into one category.
*Names of individual shows: per the common-sense title capitalizing rules implemented by the perl module [http://search.cpan.org/~doom/Text-Capitalize-0.4/Capitalize.pm Text::Capitalize], every word in a program title should be capitalized, except: 1) the articles ''a'', ''an'' and ''the''; 2) two and three-letter conjunctions: ''and'', ''or'', ''nor'', ''for'', ''but'', ''so'' and ''yet''; 3) short prepositions: ''to'', ''of'', ''by'', ''at'', ''for'', ''but'' and ''in''.  If one of these appears as the the first or last word of a title, then it should be capitalized.
*If a program is a remix of another program ("[[At the Border (remix)]]"), leave "remix" in lower case.</s>
*This is more of a titling rule than a case rule, but if an article like ''a'', ''an'' or ''the'' is the first word in a program name, leave it capitalized and move it to the end, like "[[Call In The Night, A]]" so it will alphabetize properly.
*This is more of a titling rule than a case rule, but if an article like ''a'', ''an'' or ''the'' is the first word in a program name, leave it capitalized and move it to the end, like "[[Call In The Night, A]]" so it will alphabetize properly.
*But if you're linking to a show with a title like that, use WikiMedia's syntax to make it pretty, like this: <nowiki>[[Call in the Night, A|A Call in the Night]]</nowiki>.
*But if you're linking to a show with a title like that, use WikiMedia's syntax to make it pretty, like this: <nowiki>[[Call in the Night, A|A Call in the Night]]</nowiki>.
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