Style Guides on r/IndiaInvestments Wiki

General Style Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

General Style Guide

Intro 👋

This document should serve as a standard guideline on how to write for r/IndiaInvestments wiki.

There’s no one true way of writing it. But when working on a collaborative project such as this, we all should agree with certain ground rules, to have uniform content throughout our knowledge base.

It also helps reviewers, reducing cognitive load on what to watch out for.

Following points are meant as a way to help you form an article from scratch. We can then tweak it later, based on review feedback.

FAQ Style Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

FAQ Style Guide

What is FAQ?

Our FAQ sections exist, to address common queries often asked by investors. These queries are so common, that instead of covering these as part of their dedicated series; we chose to group them under a dedicated series of its own.

These are available in our Discord #faqs channel. And on top of that, it’d be available as a bot command - when someone asks a common query whose answer is already in our wiki, another community member can have a bot fetch that for the member right away.

How To Style Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

How To Style Guide

Intro 👋

We’ll soon have lot of process-oriented, step-by-step guides on various common tasks an investor needs to execute from time-to-time. These would form our How To section.

As a result, we’d have a ton of content that people can quickly refer to, as a sort of checklist.

But this has some challenges as well. Step-by-step guides can frequently become outdated, if the underlying product or platform changes in look-and-feel, functionality etc.

Excel Series Style Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Excel Series Style Guide

Intro 👋

Excel series is about covering excel programming lingo in a way that’s palatable for most people who’re starting out with investments.

Learning enough excel to be dangerous is the goal for end user. We’ve to assume that user has no reason to know why they’d need excel; at least in the beginning.

They just need to be guided, step-by-step, so they feel comfortable using excel, for day to day finance-related queries.

Stocks Style Guide

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stocks Style Guide

This article is meant to serve as a style guide on how to write content in the Stocks section.

This isn’t a strict requirement but a general recommendation or advice about how to approach writing content which meets the level of quality we’re looking for in the Stocks section.

This is in addition to our general style guide

General Style Guide

Use Beginner Friendly Writing Style

Unless something has already been covered in one of the sections written before, please don’t assume that the reader would know about it. This doesn’t mean that content should be dumbed down, but it should be easy to approach such that understanding it doesn’t feel uncomfortable.