Polytope Wiki:Style guide

This is a work in progress.

This page will tell you how to format pages, page titles, etc. Anything not following this style guide should be adapted to conform to it.

Page titles
The title for the page of a polytope must be the Bowers long name of the polytope in question. In case this doesn't exist, the Johnson name is preferred. In the rare case neither exists, the community will decide on a name.

The first word in a page title must be capitalized, bit every other word must not. For example, is acceptable, but are not. Redirects may be created from alternate names, though, if these are in somewhat common use.
 * Facetorectified pentachoron ✅
 * Facetorectified Pentachoron ❌
 * Frip ❌
 * Face rectified pyrochoron ❌

Page formatting (polytopes)
The page must start by introducing the polytope by its long name. In the same sentence, common names for the polytope can be specified. The sentence must end by stating into which category the polytope falls. The next sentence must be the element count. For example, is a valid introduction, while is not.
 * The great rhombicuboctahedron or girco, also commonly known as the truncated cuboctahedron, is one of the 13 Archimedean solids. It consists of 12 squares, 8 hexagons, and 6 octagons, with one of each type of face meeting per vertex. ✅
 * Girco is often called the truncated cuboctahedron, but this is incorrect for various reasons. ❌

Further information for the highest symmetry version of the polytope may be given in the introductory paragraphs. Subsections can be dedicated to either notable lower symmetry versions or specific properties of any version of the polytope.

Infoboxes
Bowers style acronyms must be from either Bowers' or Klitzing's website. Element names must be specified unless they are vertices or dyads. Element counts are separated by symmetry, so since a great rhombicuboctahedron contains two groups of 6 and 12 squares in two different symmetry groups, one may state concisely that it contains 6+12 squares.

All parameters of the infobox that are applicable and known must be attempted to be filled.

Other
Polytopes that have separate symmetries, but are otherwise identical (colorings), must not have their own articles, and must instead be given subsections on the highest symmetry polytope's page. For example, tetratetrahedron is a subsection of octahedron.