Editing Guide

Give each article a clear introduction, useful sections, related internal links and a Sources section. Cite the particular chapter, verse, letter, Aethyr or page that supports a claim. Use footnotes for important assertions and distinguish Crowley’s wording from modern interpretation. See the source guide.

Primary texts establish what their authors wrote. Historical claims, present-day organisations and biographies often require additional independent sources. Attribute reports of revelation and visionary experience to the person or text reporting them.

When developing an article, add relevant passages from the available source books. Choose a quotation because it clarifies a particular claim, image, disagreement or method. Introduce the passage, identify its speaker or author, and explain its significance in the surrounding prose. A quotation should not replace the article’s explanation.

Check the wording against the page image, not OCR alone. Preserve spelling, emphasis where significant, and punctuation. Mark omissions with an ellipsis and editorial additions with square brackets; do not silently join separate passages. Normalising line breaks or typographic spacing is acceptable, but identify other transcription choices. Attribute prefatory notes, translations and editorial commentary to their own authors.

Cite the work, edition or journal issue, and a stable locator: chapter and verse, section, Aethyr or printed page. For an unpaginated digital file, identify the PDF page explicitly. Link to a readable source copy. Keep a local record of the source file and the page checked so another editor can verify the quotation. Distinguish a text’s religious claims from historical facts, and check the context on either side of an excerpt.

Use DokuWiki’s quotation formatting, followed by attribution and a source footnote. Do not put paraphrases inside quotation marks. Keep extracts proportionate to their purpose and establish that any reproduced text or image is available for the intended reuse.

Prefer relevant original pages, diagrams, portraits or locations with documented public-domain or suitable open-licence status. Record the creator, date, source and rights basis; include a useful caption and credit on the article. A book’s age does not establish the status of a modern cover, photograph, annotation or illustration added to it. Check that the published image loads and that its lettering remains readable.

Check the article directory before creating a duplicate. Keep existing page identifiers when improving an article so incoming links continue to work. Use descriptive link labels and add links from related articles.

[[liber_e|Liber E vel Exercitiorum]]
(([[https://example.org/source.pdf|Work title]], chapter or section.))

The sidebar links to subject groups and kinds of writing in the article directory. The front page supplies selected starting points. Update the explicit directory when an article is added, and add relevant links from related articles. A tag alone does not update these navigation pages.

The directory separates Holy Books, instructions, essays, literary works, records and reference material. These are practical reading groups, independent of the A∴A∴ publication classes. A work combining several forms may appear in more than one appropriate group.

Use one or more of these category tags:

• foundations
• sacred_texts
• key_concepts
• magical_practices
• rituals_and_ceremonies
• god_forms
• organisations_and_orders
• thelemites
• places
• esoteric_systems
• thelema_in_culture

Place a tag line at the beginning of the page, for example:

{{tag>magical_practices sacred_texts}}

The legacy sacred_texts tag covers text studies broadly, including instructions, fiction and reference works. It does not mean that every tagged work is scripture or Class A. Retain existing tags for compatibility; use the directory’s more precise reading groups when presenting these works to readers.

Preview headings, tables, links and footnotes. Check unfamiliar letters and diagrams against page images because OCR can corrupt them. Provide an edit summary explaining the change. Preserve useful material when revising and use the page history to inspect earlier versions.

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