Wikipedia:Styletips

Summary

This is the Styletips project, which gives useful advice to editors on writing style and formatting in bite-size chunks from the Manual of Style and related pages. For the complete schedule of Styletips, see below.

Please place suggestions on the Talk page. The objective is to keep the focus of each tip narrow and to express it simply and briefly.

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List of tips
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/1 – Quotations within quotations
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/2 – Number signs
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/3 – The year 1995
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/4 – Percentage ranges
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/5 – Case in expanded abbreviations
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/6 – Gender-neutral language
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/7 – No initial the or a in article and section titles
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/8 – Downcase the generics
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/9 – Unit symbols: spacing
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/10 – Instructional and presumptuous language
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/11 – Including
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/12 – Current
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/13 – Within-text attribution
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/14 – Emphasizing a word
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/15 – Block quotes
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/16 – Unit symbols: figures
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/17 – Seasons
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/18 – Ampersand
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/19 – Circa
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/20 – US or U.S.?
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/21 – Pluralizing abbreviations
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/22 – Points and spaces in abbreviations
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/23 – Quotations: allowable typographical changes
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/24 – Formatting titles of literature and art
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/25 – Italics for emphasis
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/26 – Overlinking
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/27 – Subset terms
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/28 – Dashes in article titles
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/29 – Dates (I)
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/30 – Currency symbols
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/31 – Dates (II)
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/32 – No hyphen after -ly adverbs
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/33 – Hyphens can avoid ambiguity
  • Wikipedia:Styletips/34 – Hanging hyphens

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    Dates


    • For full dates, write 10 June 1921 or June 10, 1921, consistently throughout an article (10 June or June 10 where the year is omitted). Generally, use the month first format for (1) US-related articles, and (2) articles not related to a native English-speaking country that already use the month first format.
    • Avoid changing a consistently used date format in an article just for reasons of personal preference.

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    See also edit

    MoS related
    • Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style – an overview of commonly used style guidelines.
    • Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule – a reading schedule designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Manual of Style
    General formatting
    • Wikipedia:Tips – overview page where you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels.
    • Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a page that provides information on the basics needed to edit Wikipedia.
    • Wikipedia:Writing better articles – guidance on how to improve articles
    • Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts – summaries of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in a bullet-point format
    • Help:Cheatsheet – a page that provides the most commonly used wiki markup