Wikipedia:Styletips
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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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Case and spelled-out abbreviations
Incorrect (not a proper noun): We used Digital Scanning (DS) technology Correct: We used digital scanning (DS) technology Correct (a proper noun): The film was produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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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
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