Minecraft Discontinued Features Wiki:Style Guide

This article is the style guide for the Minecraft Discontinued Features wiki. Although Wikipedia already provides a more general style guide, a more specific one is necessary for Minecraft Discontinued Features-specific guidelines. As such, only guidelines pertaining to the Minecraft Discontinued Features Wiki and its basic formatting rules are included here. If any contradiction arises, this page always has precedence over its subpages and the Wikipedia style guide.

Inclusion
The majority of pages on the wiki should focus on covering discontinued features. Discontinued features are any saved object in the game (items/entities/blocks/etc.) that were possible in earlier versions of the game but become unavailable in later versions, but the object can be updated to those later versions where it is unobtainable. The discontinued feature can be recontinued, deleted, or normalized by the most current version though. Future discontinued features are not yet discontinued but are allowed to be included. If a future discontinued feature does not actually become discontinued as predicted then it no longer can be included and must be deleted.

All discontinued features must be in vanilla Java Edition Minecraft. Bedrock edition and other fork version features belong on the [mcbdiscontinued.miraheze.org separate wiki]. The definition of cheating is largely subjective and what exploits/versions are too far depends on the player. The wiki holds a very expansive view of vanilla but whenever it may be questionable relevant warnings should be written to help the reader find the features they agree are vanilla. The wiki allows these as vanilla:
 * Bugs/Exploits
 * Snapshots, Pre-releases, Release Candidates, and Combat Tests
 * Versions Before 1.0.0 (Beta, Alpha, Infdev, Indev, Classic, Pre-Classic)
 * April Fools' Versions (Beta 1.4, 2.0, 15w14a, 1.RV-Pre1, 3D Shareware v1.34, 20w14∞)
 * Downgrading Versions - going to an older version of the game
 * Minecraft China Java - the variant of Minecraft made to follow Chinese laws on censorship, playtime restrictions, and other requirements
 * MinecraftEdu - the Mojang bought forge mod that was made from Beta 1.4 to 1.8.9 and was for education
 * Basic File Manipulations - Renaming world name, renaming level.dat to special_level.dat/vice versa, and deleting level.dat are currently allowed
 * Official Map Discontinued Features - Discontinued features found in maps created by Mojang
 * Converters - Converters that allow Classic file format to be brought into Indev file format and Indev file format to Infdev file format are allowed.

These are not allowed on the wiki:
 * Any feature that requires mods, external editors (like NBTExplorer), or bukkit/spigot
 * Endorsed Map Discontinued Features are not currently allowed though this may change
 * Cross World Commands are mentioned only on that page but are not considered vanilla because of the use of commands
 * Features from Classic 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST to Classic 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST_03, Indev 0.31 20091223-1 to Indev 0.31 20100122, or Infdev 20100227-1 to Infdev 20100325 do not save

Some other pages are allowed but all should be related to discontinued features. The other pages allowed are:
 * Disambiguation pages to help the reader navigate from an ambiguous search to the desired page. (Ex. Half door)
 * Version pages covering all features ending in a version range
 * Meta pages covering types of discontinued features
 * Lists of specific types of discontinued features
 * A few tutorial & community pages
 * Pages listing discontinued features that meet certain specifications or are in a specific category