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1
Retaining existing styles
2
Article titles, sections, and headings
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2.1
Article titles
2.2
Section organization
2.3
Section headings
2.3.1
Wikimarkup
2.3.2
Anchors
2.3.3
Heading-like material
3
National varieties of English
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3.1
Consistency within articles
3.2
Opportunities for commonality
3.3
Strong national ties to a topic
3.4
Retaining the existing variety
4
Capital letters
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4.1
Capitalization of
The
4.2
Titles of works
4.3
Titles of people
4.4
Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines
4.5
Calendar items
4.6
Animals, plants, and other organisms
4.7
Celestial bodies
4.8
Compass points
4.9
Proper names versus generic terms
5
Abbreviations
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5.1
Write first occurrences in full
5.2
Plural forms
5.3
Punctuation and spacing
5.4
US and U.S.
5.5
Circa
5.6
Avoid unwarranted use
5.7
Do not invent
5.8
HTML tags and templates
5.9
Ampersand
6
Italics
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6.1
Emphasis
6.2
Titles
6.3
Words as words
6.4
Non-English words
6.5
Scientific names
6.6
Quotations in italics
6.7
Italics within quotations
6.8
Effect on nearby punctuation
7
Quotations
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7.1
Original wording
7.2
Point of view
7.3
Typographic conformity
7.4
Attribution
7.5
Quotations within quotations
7.6
Linking
7.7
Block quotations
7.8
Non-English quotations
8
Punctuation
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8.1
Apostrophes
8.2
Quotation marks
8.2.1
Quotation characters
8.2.2
Double or single
8.2.3
For a quotation within a quotation
8.2.4
Article openings
8.2.5
Punctuation before quotations
8.2.6
Names and titles
8.2.7
Punctuation inside or outside
8.2.8
Quotation marks and external links
8.2.9
Quotation marks and internal links
8.3
Brackets and parentheses
8.3.1
Brackets and linking
8.3.2
Angle brackets
8.4
Ellipses
8.5
Commas
8.5.1
Serial commas
8.6
Colons
8.7
Semicolons
8.7.1
Semicolon before "however"
8.8
Hyphens
8.9
Dashes
8.9.1
To mark divisions within a sentence
8.9.2
In ranges that might otherwise be expressed with
to
or
through
8.9.3
In compounds when the connection might otherwise be expressed with
to
,
versus
,
and
, or
between
8.9.4
When applying a prefix or suffix to a compound that itself includes a space, hyphen, or dash
8.9.5
To separate parts of an item in a list
8.9.6
Other uses for en dashes
8.9.7
Other uses for em dashes
8.9.8
In article titles
8.9.9
Other dashes
8.10
Slashes
8.10.1
And/or
8.11
Symbols
8.12
Number (pound, hash) sign and numero
8.13
Terminal punctuation
8.14
Punctuation and footnotes
8.15
Punctuation after formulae
8.16
Spacing
9
Dates and time
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9.1
Time of day
9.2
Dates
9.3
Months
9.4
Seasons
9.5
Years and longer periods
9.6
Current
10
Numbers and measurements
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10.1
Numbers
10.2
Currencies
10.3
Units of measurement
10.4
Common mathematical symbols
11
Grammar and usage
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11.1
Possessives
11.1.1
Singular nouns
11.1.2
Plural nouns
11.1.3
Official names
11.1.4
Usage
11.2
Pronouns
11.2.1
First-person pronouns
11.2.2
Second-person pronouns
11.2.3
Third-person pronouns
11.3
Plurals
11.4
Verb tense
12
Vocabulary
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12.1
Contractions
12.2
Gender-neutral language
12.3
Contested vocabulary
12.4
Instructional and presumptuous language
12.5
Subset terms
12.6
Identity
12.6.1
Gender identity
12.7
Non-English terms
12.7.1
Terms without common usage in English
12.7.2
Terms with common usage in English
12.7.3
Spelling and romanization
12.7.3.1
Ligatures
12.7.4
Other non-English concerns
12.8
Technical language
12.9
Geographical items
13
Media files
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13.1
Using images to display text
13.2
Captions
14
Bulleted and numbered lists
15
Links
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15.1
Wikilinks
15.2
External links
16
Miscellaneous
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16.1
Keep markup simple
16.2
Formatting issues
16.2.1
Color coding
16.2.2
Indentation
16.3
Controlling line breaks
16.4
Scrolling lists and collapsible content
16.5
Invisible comments
16.5.1
How to add an invisible comment
16.6
Pronunciation
17
See also
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17.1
Guidance
17.2
Tools
17.3
Other community standards
17.4
Guidelines within the Manual of Style
17.4.1
Names
18
Notes
19
References
20
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