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Help:Writing Fact Sheets

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Notes

  • Fact sheets provide factual information or pertinent points powerfully and succinctly, with little or no analysis.
  • A fact sheet may be about a person, place, thing or idea, such as a research study, or it may be in support of a stated assertion. See Oxford Study for an example of the former, and Grazing for an example of the latter.
  • A fact sheet is manifest as a top-level section within an article.
  • The information within the fact sheet section is automatically converted to plain text and can be copied to the clipboard with a single click of a button inside Share this page or by selecting text in the plain text section. For this to work properly, these conventions must be followed:
    • Under the fact sheet section, subsections are used to organize the fact sheet. Only one level of subsection is allowed.
    • Under each subsection is an unordered list of facts. All content within the subsection must be in a list.
    • Sublists cannot be used under an item in a list. (This item is in a sublist, but it's not in a fact sheet so it's fine.)
  • Each item in the list, should be stated as an incontestable fact.
    • Instead of saying "Chickens are smart," say "prominent animal neurobiologist Leslie J. Rogers says that 'the cognitive abilities of some avian species may actually rival those of primates.'"[1] Or "'Chickens are smart.' So says prominent animal neurobiologist Leslie J. Rogers."
    • Instead of saying "Even the lowest impact bovine meat is responsible for six times more greenhouse gases than the production of plant-based protein." according to the, say "Even the lowest impact bovine meat is responsible for six times more greenhouse gases than the production of plant-based protein, according to the 2018 Oxford Study.
  • Information in sections outside the fact sheet section is not subject to the above conventions.
  • Fact sheets may serve as the research for a future article, or may be converted to an article at a later date.

Footnotes

  1. Rogers, Lesley J. The Development of Brain and Behaviour in the Chicken. CAB International, 1995. 214.