Editing Editorial Guidelines (section)

==== Translation Pages ====
* '''Standard Rule:''' The page titles for all translated English texts must identically mirror the exact alphanumeric archival code of their matching original source text page.
* '''The Translation Suffix:''' To differentiate the translation from the source code, the code must be followed immediately by a hyphen and a capital letter T suffix (<code><nowiki>-T</nowiki></code>).
* ''Example:'' The English translation page for the text mentioned above would be titled: <code><nowiki>UG08MKK-T</nowiki></code>
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== Editorial Authorship and Revision Control ==
To maintain rigorous academic credit and generate accurate data for the "How to Cite" sections, page authorship is dynamically managed based on text contribution tiers. Individual articles do not follow an anonymous crowd-sourced model. The Managing Editor retains final authority over all page author attribution tracking, placement, and group ordering.

=== Authorship Tiers ===
* '''Main Authors:''' The individual or individuals responsible for creating the initial text or the vast majority of the current page content. If a page has multiple main authors, their names must be listed in strict '''alphabetical order by surname'''.
* '''Other Authors:''' Contributors who have provided significant textual expansion, deep source checking, or substantial structural revisions, but have not overwritten the core baseline argument. These names are appended after the main authors in strict '''alphabetical order by surname'''.
* '''Text pages:''' On pages in the text archive, the visible citation credits the author of the text and, on translation pages, the translator(s) as well (see [[Editorial Guidelines - Texts and Translations]]). Transcribers are not credited in the visible text, but their work is recorded in the hidden authorship change log.

=== Revision and Promotion Thresholds ===
* '''Substantial Expansion:''' Any registered editor who performs a substantial upgrade or expansion to an existing article is entitled to have their name added to the "Other Authors" section.
* '''Major Revision and the "50% Guideline":''' If an editor thoroughly overhauls, expands, or rewrites more than half of the existing article's text, they are traditionally eligible to displace the original creator and be promoted to primary '''Main Author'''.
* '''The Principle of Qualitative Significance:''' The quantitative 50% threshold is strictly a baseline guideline, not an automated rule. If a contributor's revisions fall below the 50% content mark but are deemed highly crucial, foundational, or qualitatively more important than the text left unchanged, the Managing Editor may choose to elevate that contributor to the "Main Authors" tier, or establish them as the sole primary author.

{{See Also|Peer Review and Authorship}}

=== Mandatory Moderation Workflow ===
* '''Prior Forum Discussion:''' Editors are strictly prohibited from executing silent major rewrites or unilaterally altering author lists. Any proposed major rewrite and its subsequent authorship implications must be proposed and discussed within the dedicated '''phpBB community forum''' beforehand.
* '''Managing Editor Review:''' The Managing Editor must review the thread, evaluate both the quantitative scope and qualitative value of the proposed changes, and explicitly authorize the structural overhaul before any text changes go live on the wiki platform.

== Conventions for Citation Blocks ==
Every encyclopedic page ends with a "How to Cite This Article" section, and every page in the text archive contains a "How to Cite This Page" section. The templates for these sections are given on [[Editorial Guidelines - Encyclopedic Pages]] and [[Editorial Guidelines - Texts and Translations]] respectively. The following conventions apply to both.

=== Name Ordering ===
* '''First Name Listed:''' The first name in the author sequence must always be inverted with the surname first to facilitate alphabetical indexing (e.g., ''Doe, John'' or ''Chen Boqiang'').
* '''Subsequent Names:''' All following names must be listed in their natural, preferred order (e.g., ''David Smith'' for a Western name, or ''Tanaka Tarō'' for a Japanese author preferring traditional order).
* '''Implicit Tiers:''' Do not use explicit labels like "(Main Author)" or "(Other Author)" in the visible citation text. The tiering is implicitly understood by the ordering: Main Authors are listed first in alphabetical order, followed immediately by Other Authors in alphabetical order.
* '''Conjunction:''' Separate names with commas, and use an ampersand (''&'') before the final name in the list.

=== Authorship Change Log ===
Every citation block contains a hidden authorship change log, formatted as follows:
<pre><nowiki><!-- AUTHORSHIP CHANGE LOG
(page version), (update date). Main: (main authors in order). Other: (other authors in order).
(page version), (update date). Main: (main authors in order). Other: (other authors in order).
... etc.
--></nowiki></pre>

The Managing Editor, or an editor explicitly authorized by the Managing Editor, adds a new line to the log whenever the authorship of a page changes.

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