Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts
Proposed MoS guideline
Note: the content on this page is not something I made up, it's merely a compilation of guidelines from various MoS pages aimed to let the reader get an overview. jonkerz♠ 11:26, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- Which means it's something somebody else made up.
- It's bad enough having these expressions of prejudice at all, without having a separate page for them, which will evolve separately from the rest of MOS as some Secret Master of Wikipedia takes seizin of it.
- The first sentence is ungrammatical; the rules are largely arbitrary; and anybody who's interested in formating mathematics or music will be looking at WP:MOSMATH and WP:MOSMUSIC anyway.
- Remove the silly general rules here and where you found them; and send the subject sections back to the relevant subjects. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:48, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- I agree. There's no reason for this to exist as a separate page: each paragraph of it belongs somewhere else. A. di M. (talk) 15:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
- I see your point, but do not agree with your conclusion. My reasoning for creating this page was because all sup/subscript guidelines are scattered over multiple pages, this page is intended for ease of navigation. If you're interested in how to format music, you go to WP:MOSMUSIC, if you would like to know how to format superscripts you go here. Similar pages include Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters). I guess it's a matter of opinion: some go to WP:MOSMUSIC to figure out how to handle a specific music-related problem, some go there to learn how to format music articles in general. Likewise, this page is will teach how to format sub/superscripts in general. That said, I understand if this is a minority point of view and this page should not be included in the manual. jonkerz♠ 09:41, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
- I agree. There's no reason for this to exist as a separate page: each paragraph of it belongs somewhere else. A. di M. (talk) 15:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
If this page to be used, it should itself be made MOS-compliant with regards to the accessibility guidelines, namely WP:COLOR - the "correctness" of some of the examples is indicated by colour alone, and note that coloured text should really only be used if there's a pressing reason to do so. Knepflerle (talk) 16:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)