Murdoch Mysteries Wiki has its own style – in keeping with the series – which was created from its outset; so we do recommend browsing the wiki to familiarize yourself with its setup, format, syntax, and style before editing. Most visitors come from Google while searching for information then move on – those who have both a passion for Murdoch Mysteries and wiki editing become contributing Editors. This wiki has long-standing registered and unregistered Editors who are known to proof and edit contributions for grammar, style and format consistency on all articles about the Murdoch Mysteries' 13 seasons (and counting!)
Special Note: At the top of 2019, murdochmysteries.wikia changed (globally) to murdochmysteries.fandom; while all site hyperlinks were automatically redirected, Editors are asked to keep an eye out on proper hyperlinks syntax when proofing to reduce the amount of redirects on our site. Thank you!!
Fandom announced (June 20, 2019) that the MediaWiki that powers this Wiki will be modernized – thus, at the end of September 2020, this wiki migrated to the new UCP platform causing some issues. MM admin and managing editor(s) will continue our (pernickety) housekeeping underneath-the-hood: Please refer to MM Wiki's Updates in Progress!!
Editing Guidelines
Being an encyclopaedia and resource for MM fans (also known as Murdochians), Editors keep personal opinions and subjective speculations out of all article pages: Please use your Blog page or Talk on the related page for those insights.
Access to some articles are locked/protected by Admin for various reasons especially between seasons; revisit them again as most are temporary for newly registered Editors.
Simultaneous editing does happen and can 'muck-up' the editing process – thus the page; please allow the initial Editor time to complete their process before proofing, especially on newly created pages. We discourage "edit warring" here, be factual and polite, please.
Editing notes for the Summary section on Episode articles: Be concise (keep word count under 900) and use the present tense with the focus on the crime(s) being investigated. Usually all other subplots can be placed in the Character Revelation, Continuity, Historical References and Trivia sections. Within these non-Summary sections, we encourage the links to Character and related pages, where more specific details can be added (by editors) and/or discovered. When in doubt about Style, please use British English (Oxford style/Hart's rules) as it is consistent with Murdoch Mysteries.
About images: High quality is better, of course. Important geeky note about names of image files, it is better that they have ones related to the article as oppose to numbers and/or gibberish (no default screenshots names). We often use the episode number followed by the episode title, character name, invention, etc. Please do not use images in the infoboxes on Character articles on your Profile or message wall as doing so will affect the thumbnail Fan Feed to the Character page(s).
About internal hyperlinks: While there are no hyperlinks placed within the Summary section, each Episode article is like a hub with loads of "breadcrumbs" (links) to more information and insights about that episode and related articles. Also, one should be able to link back to where one started exploring, like following a invisible thread in a Crime Link Chart. Please be judicious and restraint using external links.
About broken hyperlinks: When you see red text, it is a broken link which is usually caused by a misspelling of the link or the page does not exist. Broken links should always be corrected or the false link removed. On the surface it may not seem like a problem, but a broken link is doing some damage to the website: a single broken link can impact search engines, the user experience, and is added to "Wanted Pages" which may be duplicating an already existing article using a different page name.
About Spoilers: MM Editors practice being measured about them especially in the current and more recent Seasons (11-14), whereas in the earlier Seasons (1-10) that discretion is not employed.
While Murdoch Mysteries writers are known for their tongue-in-cheek current cultural references, tie-ins between Murdoch’s world and the Present, those homages or allusions under the Trivia section should be verifiable (by live tweets during original airing and/or in follow-up interviews, etc.) or they are merely one’s subjective observation belonging in Talk (Comments).
About adding new pages, please follow the format and style (found on existing similar articles) including appropriate infobox and image and it is important that the new page is hyperlinked to and from related articles or the new page will be automatically tagged as an orphaned page, and thus a candidate for deletion (with zero unique views).
Before Removing or altering established information, images, Categories, and style syntax, etc., from any article, please discuss first – especially if it impacts multiple articles.