Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive Directory

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• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (abbreviations and acronyms)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (capitalization)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (chemical names)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (citing references)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (jguk's changes)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Draft Trim
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Draft Trim discussion archive
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Draft trim (November 2004)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Draft trim (November 2004)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (external links) (includes references and further reading)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (foreign languages)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (gender-neutral pronouns)

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• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (external links)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (names)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (national varieties of English)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (numbers)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (places)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (Poll: always use "U.S." and Oxford commas?) (neither current policy nor the alternative proposals gained consensus)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (pronunciation)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (punctuation)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (Quotation marks and apostrophes)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (quotes and quote marks)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (quotes and quote marks 2)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (sexuality)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive ("See also")
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (ships as "she")
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spaces after a full stop/period)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spelling 1)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spelling 2)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spelling 3)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spelling 4)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spelling 5)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (style guide errata) This is for archived discussion of the style guide itself, not particular styles.
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (titles)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive ("U.S." or "American")
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (visual design) Includes type styles.

[edit] Miscellaneous archives

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 0

Early discussion

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Alpha Archive 1

1. Advocating   (dash)
2. Alternate vs. Alternative
3. Ampersand
4. Anyway to remove underlining?
5. Article on style guides
6. Article structuring
7. Article title in bold
8. British versus American casing

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Alpha Archive 2

1. "Christian" writing style
2. Citing poetry style guide somewhere ?
3. Classical music titles
4. Computer game titles
5. Copyediting article
6. Country order
7. Ellipses
8. Equations
9. Explanatory text
10. Fictional characters
11. Fictional Universe Format
12. gender usage?
13. guidelines for article splitting/merging/refactoring..?
14. Inconsistent abbreviations
15. Italics vs. quotes
16. Libel

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Alpha Archive 3

1. New section proposal
2. Notes for editors that are visible to non-editors
3. On quotations and punctuation marks

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Alpha Archive 4

1. Paragraph length
2. People's titles in article intro
3. Pictures, Categories, and so forth
4. Proposal up for quick vote -- italics
5. Quotes and foreign language words
6. Regarding contractions

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Alpha Archive 5

1. Section on sepecialized vocabulary
2. "See also" vs "Related topics", and Category Project
3. See main article
   1. France
   2. France
4. Sept. 11 attacks
5. Should we cite serial comma opposition?
6. "Somewhat of a..."
7. Spectacles/glasses
8. Stylish irony
9. Syntax highlighting for source code
10. Title style
11. U+0027 versus U+2019 for apostrophe?
12. Underlining

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 10

1. Massive lost information
2. Numbers as words
3. jguk's changes

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 11

1. SI always ?
2. Order Captions of Photographs
3. Political vs. Traditional correctness
4. Spelling and usage within quotations
5. British English / American English
6. Italics for quotations
7. Style guide table of contents
8. Simplified classical music titles
9. Chronological archive Feb 15–March 7, 2005
10. British-style punctuation

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 12

1. A proposal to simplify all of this
2. Style guides, national differences, etc.
3. Removal of guidelines
4. Separate page for national differences?
5. Jguk's proposal
6. But so often it's just silly
7. What about hyphens?
8. Quotation marks, splitting the difference
9. Personal titles
10. gender neutrality
11. Lead section conventions for films
12. Italics
13. Superscripted Ordinals
14. Headings and Sub-Headings: Capitalization of Major Words

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 13

1. Commas and places
2. Citation-Style Recommendations?
3. Example
4. National varieties
5. Deities begin with a capital letter
6. More capitalisation: "the Church" vs. "the church"
7. Punctuation and brackets
8. Proposed style for episodic descriptions
9. Dashes
   1. Serial comma
   2. Post Change discussion
   3. Compromise?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 14

1. MediaWiki 1.5: time to drop straight quotation mark requirement?
2. commas
3. Pink box
4. Diaeresis in English
5. Disambiguation page style survey
6. How do I set the background color of a page to something other than white?
7. Titles of scientific theories?
8. Bolding within articles
9. i.e. and e.g.
   1. Scratch from MoS!
10. BC/BCE
11. Italics -- Wikipedia and encyclopedias in general
12. Paintings?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 15

1. Policy on terminology consistency?
2. NOR
3. Guideline
4. Footnotes
5. Don't use contractions, really?
6. Court Cases

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 16

1. First sentence of common nouns
   1. Preamble to proposal
   2. Proposed addition
   3. Comments
2. Template:guideline
3. Wikipedia_talk:Summary_style#templates_to_make_summary_style_explicit
4. Lists of works
5. Archives
   1. Where do we place questions for this page?
6. "Arab" etc.
7. Plot summaries
8. Quotation Mark Rule - A Hopeless Muddle?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 17

1. Template:TOCright
   1. Call for MoS
   2. Page layouts
   3. Floating TOC
   4. When and how to use
   5. Width definitions
   6. Draft proposal
      1. Support
      2. Oppose
      3. Closing date
      4. Comments
   7. Misc

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 18

1. Quotation Marks - Why Straight? Change proposed.
   1. Proposal by Steve Summit
      1. Comments
      2. No consensus for straight quotes

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 19

1. Quotation Marks - Why Straight? Change proposed. continued
   1. Proposal by Steve Summit continued
      1. No consensus for straight quotes continued
      2. Tech issues: Back to square one
   2. Consensus or not
   3. Occam's Razor

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 20

1. European spelling
2. British vs U.S. Alphabetising

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 21

1. U.S. vs. US
   1. GPO Usage
   2. Consensus?
   3. Compromise?
   4. Back to the proposal
   5. Compromise proposal 2
   6. Follow common U.S. style

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 22

1. Latin abbreviations
2. Book quotations
3. Links to years

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 23

1. Image description guideline
2. Proper hyphen/mdash usage?
3. Movie/DVD easter egg inclusion?
4. Reversion war
5. Pronouns beginning sections
   1. Face
   2. Social standing
6. Economist style guide
7. "See also"
8. Contractions
9. German eszet
   1. ß proposal
   2. Extended ß proposal

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 24

1. Consistency

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 25

1. 'Aluminium'
2. Decapitalisation
3. Capitalization of link lists

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 26

1. Proposed use of "U.S." when referring specifically to language in U.S.
2. "Diacritic" is being used inconsistently
3. Capitalization of ethnic group/race metaphors
4. Abbreviating United States more than once
   1. Indent reset
5. Exclusion of vowels when referring to deities

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 27

1. Misspelled words in quotes: [sic], (sic), or [sic]  ?
2. Repeated Links
3. Time references, both hard and soft
4. Is "like shown" correct?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 28

1. Quotation marks and punctuation
2. Date Format - is this explained somewhere? should it be?
3. Brackets or parentheses?
4. Words used and defined in the same article
5. Italics guidance too narrow
6. What decade/year are we in? Twenty "aught-five?"
7. Discographies - do we have a style?
8. Non-sexist language

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 29

1. Ð and Þ

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 30

1. Icelandic transliteration
2. Images and colorblindness
3. "ß" "Ð" "Þ" "Ǎ" etc etc
4. Web versus web, Internet versus Internet, etc.
5. Variant spellings/names in one place?
6. Diacritics
7. Disputed tag at National varieties of English
8. If Winston Churchill had been a diacritics crusader
9. Hyphens

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 31

1. German eszet
   1. ß proposal
   2. Extended ß proposal
      1. To the non-logged-in user who restored this thread

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 32

1. Use of second person ("you", "your")
   1. Use of second person represents a factual omission
   2. Addition to Manual?
2. Using commas and periods with Quotations, Song Titles, Article Titles, including in a Series

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 33

1. Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (categories)/Usage of American
2. Tenses
3. {{style}} style
4. Transliteration
5. Loan words vs non-English words
6. National varieties of English (UK, US and other spellings)
7. "See also" and "Related topics" sections
8. Paragraph spacing
9. Spaces before and after mdash?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 34

1. National spelling
2. Why was my comment deleted from the National Spelling thread?
3. Superscript and other symbols
4. External Links
5. A date standard
6. [[Article|articles]] versus [[article]]s
7. "References" and "Sources"
8. Indented paragraphs
9. Left-aligned images
10. Paragraph Spacing Redux
11. Color on my personal page

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 35

1. Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines and their adherents
2. Is 'a' the best abbreviation for year as in 'Mt/a'?
3. Italics, and species references
4. Columns in articles
5. Suggested style for using abbreviated units of measurement
6. Precision in using numbers
7. Links in the title
8. Signpost articles
9. Double spaces
10. Capital letters

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 36

1. Words as Words
2. additional WikiLinks style guidelines?
3. Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations
4. Dialects
5. Requiring approval for changes
6. Scripture references
7. British vs. American English in São Paulo article
8. "We"

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 37

1. Wikilinks when quoting
2. See also sections
3. Emboldening other phrases in 1st sentence
4. Format for displayed text of A#B links
5. Gendered/sexist language -- but *not* pronouns!
6. Is "actress" appropriate?
7. Hawaiian English in Hawaiʻi articles
8. Format for personal names
9. Template:style-guideline
10. Currency units should start with a capital letter.
11. Gender Pronouns
12. Article titles bold stuff exceptions (again)
13. Split Infinitives
14. Dates - Days, Months, Years
15. Implication that Muhammad is a deity.

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 38

1. Footnotes: ref-tag
   1. Formatting
   2. External links
2. Root pages
3. Capitalization when starting sentences
4. Capitalized headings
5. Possessives after a name
6. Quotation marks around emphasized words
7. Disambiguation subcategories and template poll
8. Common Currency Error
9. Apostrophes and indication of decades
10. Capitals for positions
11. Disputed
12. "See also" sections
    1. "cross-references" in bold?
    2. back-links to lists

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 39

1. comma issue on the welcome template
2. Commas in numbers
3. Capitalization of titles in foreign languages
4. See alsos
5. Improving the source text
6. Uses of  , —, etc?
7. Italics and visual disabilities
8. Proposed addition: Avoid float stacking
9. Distinguishing l and I

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 40

1. Quotation marks
   1. Smartquotes
2. Unicode characters
3. Gender pronouns
4. Lest we forget
5. See Also section

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 41

1. Maybe I'm missing something but...
2. Be stronger about unnecessary Latin
3. Bulleted items
4. Removed paragaph on date linking
5. Spelling proposal

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 42

1. Question re normally italicized text in already italicized block?
2. Parenthetical information
3. Removal
4. Colouring in tables
5. See also section
6. ALL CAPITAL LETTERS

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 43

1. ALL CAPITAL LETTERS (continued)
   1. Proposed rules
2. US vs UK Capitalization
3. standard and consistent internal formatting
4. Special Care with Mormonism
5. Bold article titles
6. Language indicator for external links
7. Colon Spaces
8. Captions
9. Currency

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 44

1. External links embedded in text
   1. Proposed rule
2. Location wikilinks
3. Bold font
   1. Suggested rules
4. Capitalization of unusual proper names
   1. ALL CAPITALS (but not a true acronym)
   2. MidCapitals
5. Remove sections here that have been made final
6. Italics
7. Emphasis
8. Disposition of the Wikipedia Manual of Style
   1. Should the MoS be enforceable?
   2. Should the MoS be a complete style guide?
9. Use of imperatives
10. s after apostrophe in possessives of words ending in s

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 45

1. History Articles
2. Precedence of national varieties rules
3. Changes to Cite.

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 46

1. Changes to Cite. (continued)
   1. Real arrows
      1. Backlinks after the note - straw poll
   2. Another Option
   3. Status
   4. Subreferences
      1. Much too complicated

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 47

1. Superscripts and line spacing
2. Arguments
3. Distinguishing currencies
4. Punctuating quoted passages: why British usage exclusively?
5. Jr., Sr., and other suffixes
6. Honorary titles
7. External links question
8. All-caps in articles about publications, etc. that use all caps
9. Capital letters (Commonwealth... any suggestions?)
10. Format for school athletic programs?
11. "See also"
12. There's also a problem with subscripts

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 48

1. Dialect Template?
2. The use of the title "Dr." from unaccredited universities
3. Birth names
4. Quotation style
5. Use of decorative analphabetic characters in article titles, text
6. Use of square brackets
7. New Proposal
8. Columns of content
9. Geographical coordinates, de.wikipedia-style
10. The title of the document "Manual of Style" confusing?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 49

1. French Spacing
2. ALL CAPS redux
3. Varieties of English
4. Capitalizing animals
5. City, State/Region linking
6. Nerdy style question
7. Quotation marks and bolding in summaries
8. Lexins (different words, same meanings)
9. Loan words, foreign or non-english?
10. Serial, Oxford or Harvard commas

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 50

1. Is there a rule for naming places outside the U.S. using the form "Venice, Italy" ?
2. Right-facing portraits
3. Long Line at top of article
4. 4-dash line breaks?
5. About "years ago" and dates
6. Quotation marks
7. Explicit cross-references
8. Formatting audio template
9. Left-images and confusing text
10. Sentences ending with abbreviations
11. Full stops in captions and bulleted items
12. Punctuation in complete sentences that include several bullet items
13. National varieties of English
    1. A suggestion
14. EU
15. See also section
16. Headers
17. Capitalization in novels
18. Registered names and trademarks
19. Refer to person by surname or given name?
20. Links to places
21. Capitalizing surnames of foreign people, or not?
22. Serial comma
23. Place names disambiguation
24. FYI: Quotations should not contain wikilinks proposal
25. PDF icon in external links
26. Consistency
27. Manual of style
28. Original spellings should take precedent
29. SI/Imperial measurements
30. Titles
31. Elipses
32. Currency
33. Transliteration convention
34. ALL CAPS
35. Overriding font-family
36. redirect
37. ship classes named after letters
38. Writing about fiction
39. Wikilinks to sections allowed or discouraged ?
40. Articles referring to themselves
41. American English?
42. UK-US treaties
43. RFC on Capitalis/zation
44. Quotation marks for no reason
45. Side-box template?
46. "Concerned a British topic."
47. Why do some articles use italics in the title?
48. plural with music bands

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 51

1. Directions in French or English?
2. Percentage signs
3. Missing commas
4. Image sizes
5. Empty sections

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 52

1. Boldface usage
2. Quotation marks using Cquote tag
   1. In defense of cquote
   2. Block quotations
3. Ellipsis
4. Sentence case in headings
5. Defining "encyclopedic tone"

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 53

1. Blank lines
2. Capital letters: Institutions
3. Requested moves of subtopics
   1. Survey
4. 'Wikipedia:Manual of Style (tables)'
5. Alphabetical order
6. Article titles
7. "born" and "died" vs. "b." and "d."
8. See also sections
9. Embedded lists
10. See below
11. Old Style and New Style dates

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 54

1. Foreign language links: order
2. British Muslim
3. Almost always use 's even if the noun ends with s
4. Time for a split?
5. Overriding standard styles generally
6. Italicized quotations, and quotes in blockquotes
7. float and line-height
8. "Principles" addition
9. Alphabetical Order (part II)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 55

1. New Section On Article Content Policy
2. Heads Up
3. Gauging consensus
4. Pulling the Plugs
5. Formatting of referrals to other articles
6. Location of stub tags
7. Subsection heading contradicts WP:MOS
8. Terminology Implementation Question
9. Contractions
10. Capitalization in Headings
11. People's names within articles
12. Gender neutrality

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 56

1. Proposed guide for writing about and linking to U.S. state highways
2. Notability icon at the top of articles?
3. Nested parentheses
4. Animated GIFs
5. Stränge diaëresës
6. Single quotation marks for a gloss
7. Caption period discussion
8. Captions
9. Converting Units of Measure
10. News style
11. External Links
12. Sections

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 57

1. Wikilinked possessives
2. Subpages?
3. Re: Avoid self-referential pronouns
4. Navigation as a standard appendix
5. Titles Of All Articles
6. Data: plural or mass noun?
7. We Need A Definite Policy On ==External links== And ==See also== Content

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 58

1. Cultural depictions in core biographies
2. Glosses -- not
3. Foreign terms
4. We need a consensus on Unicode symbols
5. Multiple images in an article
6. I deleted the Glosses section
   1. Glosses
7.  ?? period inside quotes if full sentence is quoted ??
8. Correcting for font issues
9. Proposed merge of sections on Headings and Sections
10. Is a scrollable navigation bar a reasonable idea?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 59

1. Wikilinks in quoted text
2. Dashes
3. Seasons
4. We Need A Definite Policy On ==External links== And ==See also== Content

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 60

1. Movie/TV show titles
2. What if a writer wants style guidance?
3. Quotation marks using Cquote tag
   1. In defense of cquote
   2. Block quotations

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 61

1. Quotation marks using Cquote tag (continued)
   1. Yet another quote template
   2. A solution?
2. Outside opinion requested at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (trademarks)
3. Fetocide vs. feticide spelling policy (3rd opinion needed)
4. User Boxes without 'mandatory' categories
5. I moved When all else fails section upward
6. Specifying locations
7. Guideline proposal: Avoid purely decorative images
8. Quotes
9. On page creation, creator should search and wikilink that word
10. Title character
11. Ancient Greece and similar
12. Are There Any Wikipedia Manual Of Style Rules On {{see also}}?
13. Misc queries
14. Disc and disk

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 62

1. good, please keep going
2. Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines, and their adherents
3. templates and linking in them
4. Quotations
5. Use of bold
6. What Is The Policy On {{see also}}, If Any?
7. Essay on pop culture
8. Why I restored after 2 reverts re italics/quotations, article/Article, punctuating quoted sentence fragments
9. I restored changes near "is deplorable" ...
10. I restored changes re italics in quotes
11. Names in all-caps
12. U.S.
13. Capitalization in titles
14. Hatnotes section needed?
15. Clarification requested
16. New Section - Infoboxes

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 63

1. Acronyms and capitalization in text and article names
2. Internal links in this article
3. Abuses of partial quotes
4. References and punctuation
5. for example
6. Double dashes
7. Proposed changes at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Tables for charts
8. Minor dispute
9. River LINE or River Line?
10. Abbreviations of proper names
11. Question about author citations
12. New template idea (crosspost)
13. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)
14. Style for URL case
15. Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)
16. Help reach consensus on flags in infoboxes
17. What Is The Policy Regarding {{See also}}?
18. American Spellings

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 64

1. Preferred grammatical tense
2. Plural Abbreviations and Initialisms
3. Two writing peeves
4. Quoting bullet lists
   1. The perfect compromise
5. Fixed px size for images
6. Template:cquote is up for deletion
7. New template for external images
8. 'Cross-English' terms, and 'politicking the lexicon'
9. MoS on Quotations
10. Opinion needed on title fix
11. Abbreviation capitalization
12. Attributed blockquotes?
13. Fair use
14. See also
15. Manual of style bitrot

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 65

1. Dashes used as quotes
2. Section Headings
   1. Wording
3. Screen area?
4. Information that's only in the Infobox?
5. Formatting for currency
6. Pronunciation style guidelines
7. Third person singular usage and gender-neutrality
8. Dead headers
9. Dates followed by commas
10. Serial comma
11. ellipsis
12. Italics and long articles
13. CMS quote

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 66

1. Flag icons - manual of style entry?
   1. Current discussion
   2. The sporting world
   3. Icons in text

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 67

1. Accents
2. Is there ever a reason to enlarge an image beyond its actual size?
3. Definite article in geographical names
4. Don't always boldface the title
   1. Related terms
5. Quotation mark caveat added
6. List of works
7. Italicizing words-as-words
8. Left-aligned images
9. Punctuation of abbreviations and initialisms
10. <noinclude> (is WP:MOS transcluded anywhere?)
11. Foreign terms
12. Beginning a sentence with a numeral or symbol?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 68

1. RE: Flag Icons- New Table
2. Left-aligned image placement
3. Where to go for help?
4. That quote in the lead
5. "Whenever reasonable"
6. Non-breaking spaces: Help!
7. Numbered lists
8. Military Ranks
9. Foreign language titles
10. Spelling variable?
11. Multiple identical Wikilinks for non-consecutive terms in templates or no?
12. [sic] and Quotes?
13. First/last name
14. I Refer to Dead People
15. Comma inside or outside quotation marks: can we clarify at WP:MoS?
16. See also

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 69

1. Why not settle on a standard written English?
2. Romanization
3. Titles in picture descriptions
4. Use of the Latin Alphabet
5. cquote tag
6. Flag icons in infoboxes
7. Alphabetization
8. Capitalization of "prime minister"
9. Universally accepted spellings

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 70

1. TV/Movie titles
2. Grammatical usage of a colon
3. Inline book references
4. HTML markup
5. Illustrations
6. Word "the" before university names
7. Style of Dating (ancient)
8. More heads needed
9. Seasons
10. Focus of the MoS
    1. Glyph variant of quotation marks and apostrophe
11. Exclamation points
12. Prices
13. Products - past/present tense?
14. Seasons (bis)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 71

1. Gender-neutral pronouns etc
2. Varieties of English
3. Templates to identify language variety of an article
4. Horizontal lists
5. Image section
6. shortcuts vs. offline users
7. Can a style be both optional and required?
8. Idiosyncratic capitalization of proper names
9. Infoboxes and MOS
10. Pic placement
11. Bible quotes??
12. Image sizing
13. plural of acronyms and abbreviations
14. question-marks
15. flexibility
16. MoS shortcuts.

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 72

1. Calling for a movement to eliminate British spelling on Wikipedia
   1. British Spelling vs. American Spelling
2. Calling for a movement to eliminate American spelling on Wikipedia

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 73

1. Choice of vocabulary
2. Acceptabe to de-promote sub-headings to boldface?
3. Multilingualism or bilingualism
4. Should we add a disambiguation link to WP:SG!?
5. Past-by Typo?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 74

1. Transgender pronoun / identity
   1. AEB

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 75

1. Images
   1. Image sizing, again.
2. Soccer/Football
3. References

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 76

1. Proposal for changes to the "National varieties of English" section
   1. "Provoking conflict"
   2. "Rarely the case"
   3. "Haphazard mix"
   4. "First major contributor"
   5. "Nationally predominant form"

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 77

1. "Further reading"?
2. Redlinks in disambiguation pages
3. Possible MoS Issues
4. Who vs whom?
5. Cannabis v marijuana
6. Original spelling
7. Making the MOS into a guiding hand usable by human editors
8. Prematrue archiving
9. Draft copy-edit of "Capital letters", plus two queries
   1. Acro's & abrev's

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 78

1. Thread removed
2. Qualify nouns
3. Passive voice should be avoided?
4. Standard to alphabetize lists?
5. Foreign terms queries
6. Quotations queries
7. font differences
8. Bolding non-specific titles

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 79

1. Proposed copy-edit of two more sections
2. Image V InfoBox
   1. Copied from Wikipedia:Lead section
3. Copy-editing the remainder of the punctuation section
4. About The Identity Guideline
5. "First contributor" rule for titles.
6. Ambiguous sentence
7. When mentioning an article by name, the name should be capitalized
8. Foreign Language Translations list

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 80

1. Consistency
2. National varieties of English: draft copy-edit for feedback
3. Exact addresses?
4. Overlinking

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 81

1. Capitalization of Common Names of birds
2. Capitalization of "concerning"?
3. Pretty coloured ticks and crosses
4. Foreign terms
5. British English v American English Compromise words
6. Portrait-format thumbnail images
7. U.S.

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 82

1. Hyphens and dashes in the MoS
   1. Matters still to be decided
   2. Major new sections implemented
   3. Merging WP:DASH here
      1. 8.3.1 A similar proposal
   4. Minus signs

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 83

1. Curly quotation marks
2. Requesting some advice...
   1. How about something like this?
   2. Discussion
3. Proposed revision of "Which style to use"
4. Unicode
5. Second-person perspective
6. Transliteration of Greek characters
7. This seems context-dependent
8. The definite article
9. Question
10. Specific manuals of style

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 84

1. Referring to ships as "she"

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 85

1. National varieties of English and divergent vocabulary

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 86

1. Capitalization of definite article in musical group names
2. Copyedit tag
3. RIAA certifications
4. Full stops (periods) after abbreviations with periods
5. Passive Voice and Vague Attribution
6. Dashes
7. Question about categorical lists
8. New edits to en dash section
9. Tables and trivia
10. MOSNUM: structural issue
11. Header
12. punctuation—interesting link
13. Italics and foreign titles

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 87

1. Common names of animals

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 88

1. Default image size question - 180px
2. Revised opening
3. The use–mention distinction: apparent formatting inconsistency in MOS
4. Alphabetization
5. Capitalisation of titles
6. Talk here, don't edit war
7. MOS central prevails over daughter articles
8. Hyphens
9. Proposal to add to MOS a summary of MOSNUM

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 89

1. Proposed guideline: Plagiarism

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 90

1. First contributor example
2. Dashes
3. Archives are a mess
4. "We" in mathematical examples should be discouraged
5. New subsections on times and numbers being finalised!
6. Which dash?
7. Commas inside quotes
8. Consistency with regard to BC/AD vs. BCE/CE
9. MOSNUM

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 91

1. City Names
2. Summary of recent change
3. Proposed "Words as words" change
4. Comprises vs comprised of
5. Images below headings
6. Image size
7. Hawaii

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 92

1. Possessives of proper names ending in "s"
2. Comma in Template:Age in years and days
3. Need feedback on interpretation of MoS guidelines
4. Quotes from an article's subject that precedes the lead paragraph
5. Christian associations of BC/AD
6. Alignment and display size of wide images discussed in article
7. Borderline cases for UK or US English
8. Y not?
9. More trouble at MOSNUM about autoformatting
10. Quotations: Preservation of spelling
11. Directions
12. Capitalization of seasons
13. Latin alphabets
14. Numbers question
15. "Ellipses" section, "Square brackets" para
16. Indicate variety of English?
17. Converting metrics in scientific articles
18. Gender usage for legislators
19. Italics
20. Knave!
21. Identities
22. WP:PRECON
23. 'Hanged' and 'hung'
24. Standard for the and a preceding acronyms
25. contractions such as (wo)men as a substitute for "both women and men"
26. Proposal for guidelines on gender-neutral language
27. References and notes relative to sentence punctuation
28. Manual of Style or Manual of style?
29. Excerpts
30. Moves afoot at MOSLINK to change guidance here
31. Another non-criterion
32. New proposal: policy and guideline style
33. On the policy regarding the use of whitespace
34. New "Links" section
35. My Example of FAC failure because of endashes
36. Bat for Lashes, 10:15
37. Logical and typesetters' punctuation
38. Transgender pronoun issue
39. Quotation marks around block quotes (ie: cquote template)
40. Exceptions to standard capitalization of proper nouns
41. Capitalisation of geographical features
42. No consensus to move
43. Punctuation inside or outside this quote?
44. "[C]ase brackets"
45. Create list of suggested currency abbreviations?
46. Identity entry
47. Proper way to credit a section?
48. Self-identification
49. Spelling out numbers
50. Proposal to change the wording of the "Words as words" subsection
51. Bad English use in relation to Commonwealth-related articles
52. "Press up" and "Push up:" Are articles limited to one country's term?
53. Last names with "de" or "del"
54. Vandalism on a massive scale
55. Proofreading/"dumbing down" by User:213.42.21.154
56. ^&nbsp;
57. Clarifying when to specify image size
58. Quoting citations for the Medal of Honor and other awards
59. Add "omit needless words" into "Usage" section?
60. Subheadings style
61. Merge proposal for WP:HEAD

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 93

1. Usage section
2. De-bolding synonyms
3. Links in titles
4. Nobiliary particles: usage and capitalization?
5. Establishing geographical context
6. Article Layout
7. Number of references
8. Recent edit to "avoid first-person pronouns"
9. Foreign terms
10. Double Standard in British/Irish related articles
11. "Sources" section now close to the top
12. Bands - Is/Are
13. Quotations and punctuation
14. U.S. vs US.
15. Italics before punctuation
16. Back to the impasse about words as words: call for consensus
17. Identity
18. Adding both Notes and References sections
19. Ellipses policy unclear
20. Please archive again
21. British vs. American English for terms
22. US$
23. Closing parentheticals
24. First Sentence
25. Bullets and numbered lists
26. Periods and acronyms dispute
27. Serial comma
28. Letters of the alphabet; français and italiano
29. Recent edits
30. Proposed changes to the exit list guide
31. McDonald's glyph example
32. Submanual section
33. MOS and FAs
34. Ellipses in square brackets
35. Troublesome second paragraph in the lead
36. Intro section
37. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (flags)
38. WP:ELG
39. Numbers as figures or words
40. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting) merge
41. Too many (allegedly) regional subpages
42. Proposal to merge MOSHEAD with this page
43. WP:TRIVIA big cleanup proposed
44. Panoramas?
45. Ellipses revisited
46. List of current world boxing champions
47. Precedence of style
48. Italics and books?
49. Problems in theatre land
50. "biblical" or "Biblical"?
51. "Legibility" subsection contains link to unreferenced data and advertising
52. Units of measurement
53. Bolding Rules
54. Housecleaning: coordinating MOS and MOSNUM
55. Question
56. Charon as a moon
57. Non-breaking spaces
58. Bad idea, this whole merging business.
59. Punctuation with quotation marks
60. Delimiting marks in Musical artist infobox
61. Images
62. Another first-sentence question (re: bolding)
63. Scrollbars
64. Things that shouldn't be changed
65. slash
66. Templates as headers

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 94

1. Single versus double quotes
2. Past tense/present tense
3. Straight vs. curly quotation marks and apostrophes
4. Help create a manual of style for maps and diagrams
5. Pop ups
6. Italicize self-refs
7. I.e., e.g., etc.
8. Diminutives and nicknames
9. Wikilinks
10. Total mess apparent in the "Style guide" template on the right-hand side
11. MOS and NCA
12. Commonwealth English ligatures
13. Highways MOS
14. Changes concerning treatment of Latin terms
15. First sentence: two questions
16. Abbreviations of English words
17. See also section lists a mere discussion
18. Clarification of style, ENGVAR
19. Incongruous MOS section on chemistry articles
20. Tense part 2
21. Minor "Quotations" section dispute
22. MOS shortcuts all nominated for deletion
23. Commas
24. Simple solution to WikiProject wanna-be MOSes
25. Links in section titles
26. Quotations, subsection Block Quotations
27. Animal capitalization
28. "Linking...which requires italics"
29. Opinions sought
30. Icky small-caps template
31. Wikipedia:Quotations
32. Manual of Style (operating system(versions))
33. First sentence
34. a new Manual of Style for Music
35. The
36. Dates and Numbers query
37. Vietnamese MOS
38. Convention outside Wikipedia
39. Regarding national varieties of English
40. Proposed naming convention change
41. YEAR in TOPIC wikilinks
42. ISO format dates in citation templates
43. Square brackets surrounding a linked word
44. MOS dispute holding up a FA discussion
45. RfC: Should bio infoboxes distinguish between nationality and citizenship?
46. Capitalisation of dog breed names
47. Addition
48. Non-breaking spaces
49. Hard order for bottom sections (see also, references, further reading, external links)
50. Deletion of my addition of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," by Lynne Truss
51. Reasoning for unique section titles
52. Question about an article title
53. Proposal: permit non-hyphen form with units in full form, to match guidance for symbolic form
54. Crossposted from Talk:Serial comma
55. Quotation mark
56. Action on markup for the hard space
57. "Because" and "since"
58. Typeface for unit symbols in this guideline
59. RfC: Should unit symbols ever be italicized?
60. Spelling in articles
61. Indians or Native Americans?
62. Markup for hard space: voting ends soon!
63. Do we use nbsp in an address?
64. Preferred way to add endash
65. Hard space: results of the vote on preferred markup
66. If you write ugly English you have no business writing a Manual Of Style
67. Demonyms / Toponyms / Wikipedia:Citizenship and nationality
68. "Or" ambiguity?
69. quick query
70. Full stop at the end of all captions?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 95

1. Ellipses – Proposal to expand the treatment thereof
2. So, what's up with capital letters?
3. Pediapress and typography
4. Use of units in tables
5. That
6. Spaces after Punctuation
7. Markup for the hard space: update
8. Geographic features: not capitalised?
9. Redirect to section
10. Research guide
11. When is text a quotation and when is it just text?
12. Copyediting support
13. Where is this supposed to be used?
14. Style Rationalisation Project
15. Hyphen in political family names
16. Dashes: Parent-instructor example
17. Manual of Style title
18. Energy Solutions arena...
19. Non-breaking spaces in citations
20. Columns: New template?
21. Use of boldface in film articles (copied from MOSBOLD)
22. Caveat
23. Blockquotes
24. Content of bold text in lead section
25. Supplementary guides
26. "We" in mathematics
27. Alphabetization
28. Paragraphs
29. Boats and ships
30. See also at GTL
31. Project guidelines

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 96

1. Template:SubArticle
2. Try and vs. Try to
3. Working example of the proposal for MOS coordination
4. Order of common sections
5. Trivia sections
6. Hyphens
7. Inputting dashes
8. Teams and clubs singular or plural pronouns  ?
9. Linking units on infoboxes
10. Minimum image size of images with specified sizes
11. Latin phrases and abbreviations
12. One fourth/one quarter
13. Diacritics and accurate proununciation
14. Time for archiving?
15. Centuries and millennia
16. Poor example of subset terms
17. Years and commas
18. Referencing style
19. Calendars
20. Cast Listing - Film, TV, Novels
21. Providing a non-English name
22. Is there any support for saying this?
23. Time to reflect
24. acronyms (when they have become nouns in their own right)
25. Consistency within articles WP:ENGVAR
26. Disputed tag
27. Permil (‰)
28. Numbers as figures or words
29. Usage of hyphens, item two
30. see also
31. WikiProject Manual of Style

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 97

• 1 Right-facing images and {{Toc right}}
• 2 Numbers in words
• 3 Single quotation marks
• 4 PD quotation clarification
• 5 Romanisation
• 6 Another unclear but significant change
• 7 Archiving this elephant
• 8 Hard-space proposal: invitation to comment

• • 8.1 A completed draft
  • 8.2 Technical report: the nowrap template
  • 8.3 This process of development
  • 8.4 How to promote the proposal
  • 8.5 {{nowrap}}, {{nowraplinks}} and {{nowrap begin}}
  • 8.6 Discussion of markup for hard spaces to continue

• 9 New prohibition against regionally variant terms in articles

• • 9.1 Vague proposal
  • 9.2 Edit warring is back

• 10 Where is the change in spelling out nine to ten?

• • 10.1 Where is the change in spelling out ten to nine?

• 11 Common mathematical symbols: spacing

• • 11.1 Consensus??

• 12 Units if surrounding text is italics

• • 12.1 Proposal regarding italics and unit symbols

• 13 Non-breaking spaces
• 14 Images
• 15 Observation
• 16 Em dash

• • 16.1 Dashes: concrete proposal, please express your view
  • 16.2 Quotations

• 17 Suggested change to images section
• 18 Format Citation
• 19 Left alignment of pics
• 20 RFC mandatory quotation of public domain text

• • 20.1 PD quotation suggestion

• 21 Large numbers / commas between digits
• 22 Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D Issue
• 23 MoS optional implementation?
• 24 200 000 vs 200 thousand
• 25 STYLE1.0
• 26 An historic, an hotel, etc

• • 26.1 Trivia

• 27 Exponential notation
• 28 Changing punctuation in direct quotes
• 29 Request for input
• 30 Periods in captions
• 31 Loanwords and the inclusion of original terms in parentheses
• 32 ... If you take the hyphen seriously, you will surely go mad
• 33 Erroneous quotation
• 34 Mon-Khmer
• 35 Using {{Cquote}} rather than just <blockquote>
• 36 UK/Britain versus England
• 37 horilka quotation
• 38 Dashes again
• 39 Nobel prize image
• 40 Future of the hard-space proposal
• 41 Sea of blue
• 42 Templates for historically determined styles
• 43 Archive 35 edit
• 44 Blank lines around headings
• 45 The first sentence
• 46 Abuse of WP:ENGVAR
• 47 Suggest addition recommendations for "float clear"
• 48 Sentences in parentheses
• 49 header in italics?

• • 49.1 Tolstoy and War and Peace

• 50 Coconfused

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 98

• 1 Frenzy of unilateral alterations today
• 2 WP:Good Article Usage
• 3 Question
• 4 Captions

• • 4.1 Suggested compromise
  • 4.2 Related Issue: Infoboxes

• 5 Use of mdash
• 6 Prescriptive versus descriptive

• • 6.1 Professionalism?
  • 6.2 Best practices
  • 6.3 MOS is prescriptive, by its very nature

• 7 Query
• 8 MoS for Maps
• 9 Break out image usage?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 99

• 1 PD

• • 1.1 PD quotation suggestion

• 2 Monthly update of substantive styleguide and policy changes
• 3 PC language #1. Chairman vs. Chairperson vs. Chair
• 4 Acronyms
• 5 Image icons and flags in infobox headers
• 6 Spacing on units of measurement
• 7 SI symbols and unit abbreviations
• 8 MOS thoughts
• 9 WP Signpost on FAC and FAR/C reviewing
• 10 Exponential notation circumstances
• 11 Dashes again (groan)
• 12 Arbitrary section breaks
• 13 Captions again
• 14 National varieties of English - Consistency within articles
• 15 Order of references and External links should be reversed
• 16 A "scope" section in the style infobox?
• 17 Style guidelines for etymology
• 18 Default thumb size of images

• • 18.1 A technical question, I presume

• 19 Block quotes vrs Pull quotes

• • 19.1 Italicization vs. quoting of words-as-words

• 20 Scriptural style
• 21 No-break spaces discussion continues at bugzilla

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 100

• 1 Proposal to index
• 2 A thought about editing style guides
• 3 Blockquote for emphasis
• 4 Proposal to merge two MOS-related pages
• 5 More eyeballs at protected style page, please
• 6 Currencies
• 7 Capitalization in French titles and style from 1589 to 1830
• 8 National varieties of English - right to revert?
• 9 Self identity

• • 9.1 Conflict with verifiability/reliable sources

• 10 Military titles
• 11 Lead image size
• 12 Consistance across pages
• 13 Using a policy page as a scratchpad to develop a proposal
• 14 Ten-day archiving
• 15 Numbers as figures or words
• 16 Use of header for heading
• 17 A case of confusing pronouns
• 18 Dash or hyphen?
• 19 Initial spacing
• 20 Translations in first sentence
• 21 What SI unit to use?
• 22 Possessives
• 23 American
• 24 Caps for US Democratic Party
• 25 Centuries
• 26 Scrolling reflists
• 27 Watchlisting the RFCstyle list
• 28 French language MOS : Works of Art
• 29 ClueBot III
• 30 Terms from foreign languages
• 31 Being clear about naming conventions vs style guidelines
• 32 Need Help with this
• 33 Archive gone missing
• 34 Euphemisms
• 35 New proposal on images

• • 35.1 Conclusion
  • 35.2 Proposal vote
  • 35.3 Proposal discussion
  • 35.4 Where to discuss this

• 36 Date-range question
• 37 Foreign terms
• 38 New proposal on images

• • 38.1 Conclusion
  • 38.2 Proposal vote
  • 38.3 Proposal discussion
  • 38.4 Where to discuss this

• 39 Bot is being developed to convert hyphens to en dashes
• 40 Date-range question
• 41 Monthly update of style and policy pages: April 2008
• 42 New category

• • 42.1 Style template
  • 42.2 Recommendations from sweep of style guidelines
  • 42.3 Report of recent activity
• 43 Church or church
  • 43.1 University
• 44 Kingdom of Gwynedd
• 45 Accessibility and images
• 46 Strong objection to the encouragement of gender-neutral language
• 47 Shorter or longer comments in the edit summary
• 48 Initial bolding
• 49 Hybrid article names
• 50 New MOS
• 51 Image question
• 52 Using numerics that are not measurements
• 53 Double-barrelled surnames
• 54 Capitalisation of common noun god in monotheistic contexts
• 55 Names with proper given names and usual nicknames
• 56 NBSP change
• 57 Language tags
• 58 WP:Captions, WP:PERFECT
• 59 Footnotes not at the foot?
• 60 Wikipedia:Usage of diacritics
• 61 Ellipses
• 62 Language differences proposal
• 63 En dash or em dash in tables?
• 64 Query

• • 64.1 Am I right? Or have I misunderstood
  • 64.2 Now the queries

• 65 Unnecessary pictures
• 66 En dashes in page names

• • 66.1 Motion to close

• 67 Straight and typographers quotes
• 68 Use of conjunctions

• • 68.1 Conjunctions

• 69 When one comes from two different countries, how do you spell it?
• 70 "Sandwiched" images
• 71 Referencing
• 72 Use of "is" and "was" in fiction, film, and television articles?
• 73 Duplicate Articles
• 74 Singular possessives ending in "s"
• 75 Upper case M for millions?
• 76 Foreign terms and headings
• 77 Some MoS issues
• 78 Comparable quantities

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 101

• 1 Quote clarification required
• 2 Image placement: Inline or gallery
• 3 Linking bolded words
• 4 Kodster
• 5 Bot being made, to convert " &emdash; " to "&emdash;"
• 6 Style ruling needed: "British Isles" / "Britain and Ireland"
• 7 Translating terms
• 8 Journalistic vs academic values
• 9 PBS's edit to the section "Foreign terms"
• 10 Multiple columns in Template:reflist deemed bad
• 11 Logical quotation
• 12 Names as names
• 13 Images
• 14 Minus
• 15 Ordinals
• 16 Should article titles conform to naming conventions?
• 17 Re: Images
• 18 Very quick question about times
• 19 Subheadings instead of DLs

• • 19.1 subheading with 4 equals signs

• • • 19.1.1 subheading with 5 equals signs

• 20 Superiors scientific even for endnotes
• 21 Using graphics to display text
• 22 Full stops
• 23 Caps controversy in the following series
• 24 Can we have wp:mosnum back?
• 25 SIZE guidelines
• 26 Update Units of measurements
• 27 Curly or straight?
• 28 Comma usage
• 29 image question
• 30 Please can I have permission to write 'there is a 9 mm gap' and 'there is a 9 millimetre gap'
• 31 Unflagged quotes
• 32 Fractions
• 33 misleading (deceptive?) edit summaries

• • 33.1 Three threads

• 34 Question on "acting" titles
• 35 English language variations
• 36 Desperately unimportant question
• 37 MoS and citation template conformance
• 38 Dispute tags
• 39 date autoformatting is optional
• 40 __FORCETOC
• 41 Proposal relating to Leading off first sentences with qualifiers
• 42 Intuition
• 43 Stability

• • 43.1 Stability and WP:CONSENSUS

• 44 Opening sentence in lists
• 45 First sentences: OK to link to official website?
• 46 Names of articles in multiple languages and bolding in the lead section
• 47 Block quotes: four lines or four sentences?
• 48 No break dashes
• 49 k. d. lang
• 50 Administrative divisions of a country
• 51 Navbox section request
• 52 Ambiguity regarding references to articles about people with initials in their name
• 53 OMG
• 54 Is a musical band referred to in the single or plural tense?
• 55 Attempt to undermine MOS and Naming Conventions talk pages
• 56 Nominator gives thumbs-up to flushing autoformatting down the pan
• 57 3rd century?
• 58 "Box" quote versus "block" quote
• 59 Rock and roll / rock 'n' roll etc etc
• 60 Quotation Marks misconception
• 61 Links in quotations
• 62 Category:General style guidelines
• 63 Quotation query
• 64 Inventing initialisms
• 65 "actor" vs. "actress"
• 66 Linking City, State
• 67 Tutorials on hyphens and dashes
• 68 (parentheses)
• 69 Bold text in headings
  • 69.1 But you don't see it on level 3 headers
    • 69.1.1 Or on level 4 headers
• 70 Watering down of non-use of pixel sizes
  • 70.1 Reopening this discussion

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 102

• 1 Move protected
• 2 "Criticism" sections
• 3 Commas between independent clauses
• 4 Paragraphs in block quotations
• 5 Subjects of study
• 6 Commas following years
• 7 Apostrophes and Primes
• 8 Numbers as figures or words
• 9 Page name in references
• 10 Quotes and WP:POINT
• 11 MoS bot
• 12 Scrolling in articles
• 13 Minor query
• 14 "It was announced that"
• 15 Komsomolskaya-Koltsevaya
• 16 Minor archiving notes
• 17 Metre: International spellings vs American
• 18 Bolding

• • 18.1 The bigger picture

• 19 Exception to restating the title
• 20 Title of articles
• 21 List formatting
• 22 "Placename dropping" in captions without saying where the place is
• 23 Diacritics with words imported from other languages
• 24 Dashes in article titles?
• 25 Notifications of status changes?
• 26 Capital after colon
• 27 Dashes in tables?
• 28 Magazine titles italicized?
• 29 An experiment.
• 30 Linking months and years
• 31 Yugoslavia
• 32 Gender
• 33 Infobox and other tables solution discussion
• 34 Etymologies
• 35 Very bad initial sentence required by this manual
• 36 Tracking MOS pages with VeblenBot
• 37 Identity dispute (again)
• 38 Use of nobel icons

• • 38.1 Moving related page to make way for new guideline

• 39 Wikimania video: external review of the quality of WP articles
• 40 Question about heading levels

• • 40.1 Action upon consensus

• 41 Saint/St./St?
• 42 Addition to WP:MSH
• 43 Left-aligned image displaces heading, ok?
• 44 Is MoS committed to observing WP:VERIFY?
• 45 Monthly updates
• 46 Headings
• 47 Compulsion
• 48 Date range rule is no good
• 49 Do lengthy, non-neutral quotations belong in the article?
• 50 Animals, plants, and other organisms
• 51 WP:SG
• 52 Possessives

• • 52.1 Posessives with proper nouns ending in s

• 53 RFC on September 11, 2001 attacks
• 54 Scrolling in articles
• 55 Portal
• 56 Ampersand vs. "and"
• 57 Over 5 days later
• 58 Weasel
• 59 En dashes and categories
• 60 "No." versus "#" in sports articles
• 61 Groan
• 62 Text formatting merge proposal
• 63 Reprieve

• • 63.1 TLDR

• 64 Superscript sic?
• 65 UK units of measurements
• 66 Lead image size
• 67 Casualty Counts
• 68 An example of a serious conflict
• 69 Balkanising MOS
• 70 Huh? Glossaries?

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 103

• 1 WP:ACCESSIBILITY
• 2 Article development
• 3 Indenting on talk pages
• 4 Excess non Latin script usage
• 5 Two styles of navigational templates, is one bad?
• 6 Italics in links
• 7 Left-aligned images directly below subsection-level
• 8 Ellipsis debate again
• 9 Nicknames and alt. names in lead section
• 10 Editing others' talk page posts
• 11 Lightbot: please support latest approval
• 12 Transclusions
• 13 Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words is no longer marked as part of the manual of style
• 14 Ampersand
• 15 MOS's ENGVAR under discussion at MOSNUM
• 16 Wikiproject opt-outs (and date-linking)
• 17 Wikipedia:Logical quotation merge proposed
• 18 Pluralization of proper names ending in "y"
• 19 Commas before quotations
• 20 Wikipedia:Footnotes#Style recommendations proposed merge
• 21 Quotation length
• 22 National varieties of English in International Articles
• 23 Wikipedia:Transclude text has been marked as part of the Manual of Style
• 24 Opportunity to make friends
• 25 Apostrophes in surnames
• 26 Styles and formatting template
• 27 Non-breaking spaces on the left side of dashes
• 28 Entirely serious dash-related question
• 29 Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Guidelines has been marked as part of the Manual of Style
• 30 Parent-instructor
• 31 Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Macedonia-related articles) is no longer marked as part of the Manual of Style
• 32 Quotation marks and quote formatting

• • 32.1 Logical quotation marks and curly quotes
  • 32.2 HTML q element
  • 32.3 RFC: Formatting of block quotations
  • 32.4 Quoting from comics
  • 32.5 Length of quotations requiring a block quote
  • 32.6 Punctuation inside/outside quotation marks

• • • 32.6.1 Clarifying the passage

• • 32.7 Was spacing between ' and " discussed?

• • • 32.7.1 Detailed rationale

• • 32.8 Curly quotes again

• • • 32.8.1 Suggested change

• • 32.9 No quotes in genitives

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• 1 RfC - Are curly quotes acceptable in mature articles? XXX

• • 1.1 Subdiscussion pertaining to RFC bot sillyness
  • 1.2 Two proposals
  • 1.3 False statements of consensus

• • • 1.3.1 Full protection

• 2 Image Placement, part the second
• 3 Possessive
• 4 Expanding CAT:GEN by 4
• 5 Proposal to merge CONTEXT and BUILD into MOSLINK
• 6 En dash spacing question on year ranges
• 7 simpler version of the style guide
• 8 Apostrophes are not quotation marks
• 9 Dashes et al. and company names, film titles, etc.
• 10 Add a ‘which’ versus ‘that’ section
• 11 Wikipedia:MOS#Images question
• 12 Wikipedia:Facial hair is required for administratorship has been marked as part of the Manual of Style
• 13 Wikipedia:Naming conventions (law enforcement agency categories) has been marked as part of the Manual of Style
• 14 Inserting dashes into articles
• 15 Proposal: war on parentheses
• 16 I need advice on how to start a sentence
• 17 Under construction artifacts
• 18 "End comma" to mark the end of an inserted part of a sentence
• 19 Numbered lists
• 20 Naming conventions: hyphen is not used as a substitute for an en dash
• 21 Conflicting list styles
• 22 Spaced initials

• • 22.1 Style manual survey

• 23 Quotations? Excessive?
• 24 using italics or quotes for questionnaires
• 25 Bot proposal: remove autoformatted dates and leave solitary years alone
• 26 Date ranges for living persons
• 27 WP:DASH debate on CFD again
• 28 Advice about categories please
• 29 where can I vote against one and only one citation template?

• • 29.1 TLDR break

• 30 Specialized cite templates
• 31 Hideous hat links
• 32 Consistency
• 33 Straight vs. curly quotation marks
• 34 Headings - input needed
• 35 MOS:TAGS?
• 36 Merging the zillions citation templates out there, part 2

• • 36.1 Outline

• • • 36.1.1 Templates merged
    • 36.1.2 Features
    • 36.1.3 What needs to be done/ Oddities

• • 36.2 Outputs

• • • 36.2.1 Table of outputs
    • 36.2.2 Example of article convertions

• • 36.3 Specific problem you have with a specific output

• • 36.4 Non-specific problems

• 37 Categories

• • 37.1 Discussion

• 38 Units
• 39 Request for comment
• 40 Categorizing disambiguation pages
• 41 Proposal to disallow dashes in category names
• 42 Hyphens, en dashes, minus signs? Oh my!
• 43 Proposal to deprecate and remove images that say 'this is not an image please add one'

• • 43.1 Votes

• • • 43.1.1 Support
    • 43.1.2 Oppose

• • 43.2 Comments

• • • 43.2.1 Why ask?

• • 43.3 Recent discussion on the same matter

• 44 bizarre crusade for forced conformity

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• 1 Identity
• 2 National varieties of English
• 3 "See also" sections in categories
• 4 MOS or video game?
• 5 "If the subject of the page has a common abbreviation or more than one name, the abbreviation (in parenthesis) and each additional name should be in boldface on its first appearance."
• 6 When to use hidden/collapsible sections

• • 6.1 Hidden code - section break

• 7 Should Presidential Templates Comply to MoS Naming Convention?
• 8 "Similarly" in first sentences content section
• 9 Images as thumbnails
• 10 More about transclude text
• 11 MoS needs rescoping
• 12 Possessives of common nouns in s
• 13 Collapsing
• 14 Unclear statement
• 15 A section for apostrophes
• 16 Unnecessary sentence?
• 17 A section for commas
• 18 Expanding and renaming a section: Colons and semicolons
• 19 MOSHEAD question: "The" and "a/an" in section headings
• 20 Another MOSHEAD question: Disambiguations in the section headings
• 21 MOSHEAD-checking script
• 22 Image size

• • 22.1 Suggestion

• 23 About 'Quotation' section
• 24 Academic Level of Articles / Formality vs. Insightfulness in Mathematics articles.
• 25 Reference library category
• 26 Proposed addition to "Currencies" section
• 27 Forced v unforced image sizes (again)
• 28 A new citation template

• • 28.1 Other comments

• 29 Spot plague
• 30 Footnotes in the lede?
• 31 General and specific questions about subscripts in section headings

• • 31.1 Screen reader trials and tribulations

• 32 Undesirable behaviour of the section edit box, for the last section

• • 32.1 Example!

• 33 Page of frequently made challenges
• 34 Image position
• 35 Guideline-by-guideline citation of sources
• 36 Images
• 37 Individual wikiprojects are deleting infoboxes from articles

• • 37.1 Forum shopping
  • 37.2 Five problems

• 38 Another new section under Punctuation
• 39 Roman numerals in Bible citation

• • 39.1 Abuse of article space

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• 1 Plurals
• 2 Glossary needed with articles with non-English word usage?
• 3 Consistency within articles
• 4 Related Signpost article
• 5 November Update
• 6 Encyclopedic style
• 7 National variants of brandnames
• 8 Em dashes, en dashes and ellipsis
• 9 Commas
• 10 Forcing Lead image

• • 10.1 Scaling factor instead of fixed size?
  • 10.2 A wicked problem

• 11 Small ranges of relatively large numbers
• 12 ALT text

• • 12.1 Should MOS require ALT text?
  • 12.2 Are there situations where ALT text is unnecessary?
  • 12.3 How detailed should ALT text be?
  • 12.4 Verifiability of ALT text
  • 12.5 A vandal magnet?
  • 12.6 A new burden for editors
  • 12.7 Whether it's tactful

• 13 Capitals
• 14 Boldface in film articles' cast lists?
• 15 Double digit numbers
• 16 Hyphens after -ly adverbs (rationalised section)

• • 16.1 Dispute tags
  • 16.2 Explaining hyphens after -ly
  • 16.3 Alternative examples
  • 16.4 Another kind of exception

• 17 Respect for MOS and its editors

• • 17.1 "instructions for blank alt text" edit revert by AnOddName

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• 1 What is WP:MOS?
• 2 Discussion about transcluded text
• 3 Using color and typeface to set off example text on MOS and MOSNUM

• • 3.1 arbitrary section break
  • 3.2 Fleshing out details

• 4 For italic quotations
• 5 Highlighting in colour—Template:xT
• 6 Delete First sentence text from this article?
• 7 Input methods for hard-to-distinguish characters
• 8 The original problems (specific and general)
• 9 Article tone
• 10 St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
• 11 Foreign words & Eng. trans.
• 12 A sentence that needs revising
• 13 Display prefences for coordinates
• 14 Adding 2 policy pages to WP:Update
• 15 Eyes needed
• 16 Donate header uses spaced em dash
• 17 RfC for WP:BOOSTER
• 18 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• 19 Ongoing hidden content discussion
• 20 Possessives of proper names
• 21 RfC: Small grammatical error - quote vs. quotation
• 22 Green text color can't be seen by the color-blind
• 23 Weather templates
• 24 Other English-language style guides

• • 24.1 Expression of interest, more links
  • 24.2 Style guide abbreviations, spoken article guidelines, future representation guidelines
  • 24.3 Some non-Wikimedia wiki style guides
  • 24.4 Links for more style guide information and some university style guides

• 25 Mixed and non-capitalization in personal names
• 26 American (and Canadian) geographic name MoS
• 27 Which has precedence?
• 28 Evidence of a dialectical process in the text of articles -- to be discouraged?
• 29 Abbreviation of large number ranges
• 30 Dispute at WP:MOSICON
• 31 Gender neutrality: actress vs actor
• 32 Second opinion
• 33 When should an article say "then-Senator Obama"?
• 34 Notable People In A City
• 35 contextless wikimapia links considered harmful...
• 36 Using self links as bold reiteration
• 37 WP:WHERE?
• 38 National spelling variation: Retaining the existing variety
• 39 RfC on WT:MOSNUM
• 40 Propose adding to Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words to Category:General style guidelines
• 41 TOC input request
• 42 Alphabetization and collation

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