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The MoS
A vast resource
Article sections
Making articles readable
Images and refs
Enriching the text
Linking
Tying the encyclopedia together
Consistency
Final little things to think about
Summary
Review of what you've learned
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The MoS is a great resource, but you're not expected to read the whole thing! You can look up advice specific issues, but here are the two key principles to bear in mind:
- Consistency. Keep style and formatting consistent within an article (unless explicitly excepted).
- Stability. Don't change an article from one guideline-defined style to another without a very good reason.
Below is a list of some main pages which make up Wikipedia's Manual of Style. For a comprehensive descriptive directory of all the pages which make up the Wikipedia Manual of Style, see Manual of Style contents
- Accessibility
- Article message boxes
- Biographies
- Disambiguation pages
- Infoboxes
- Linking
- Self-references
- Words to watch
- Formatting
- Abbreviations
- Capitalization
- Dates and numbers
- Pronunciation
- Proper names
- Spelling
- Text formatting
- Titles
- Images
- Layout
- Lists
- Legal
- Arts
- Music
- Regional
- Canada
- China
- France
- Hawaii
- India
- Ireland
- Japan
- Korea
- Philippines
- Poland
- Singapore
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Religion
- Science
- Sports