Wikipedia:Styletips

This is the Styletips project, which provides 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.

Styletips scheduling queue

List of tips

Manual of Style (MoS) Content Accessibility Biographies Disambiguation pages Hidden text Infoboxes Linking Self-references Words to watch Formatting Abbreviations Capitalization Dates and numbers Pronunciation Proper names Spelling Text formatting Titles Images Captions Galleries Icons Images Layout Layout Lead section Tables Trivia sections Lists Embedded lists Lists Lists of works Road junctions Stand-alone lists Legal Legal Trademarks By topic area Arts Comics Film Lyrics and Poetry Novels Philosophy Television Visual arts Writing about fiction Music Music samples Record charts Stringed instruments Category Regional Specific naming conventions Canada China France Hawaii India Ireland Japan Korea Philippines Poland Singapore Trinidad and Tobago Religion Islam Latter Day Saints Science Chemistry Computer science Computing Mathematics Medicine Sports Cue sports Snooker Related guidelines Article size Article titles Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Citing sources Hatnotes Military history Signatures Subpages Talk page guidelines Template namespace Understandability User pages Wikimedia sister projects WikiProjects Overview Contents Tips Wikipedia:Styletips/1 – Quotations within quotations Wikipedia:Styletips/2 – Number signs Wikipedia:Styletips/3 – The year 1995 Wikipedia:Styletips/4 – Percentage ranges Wikipedia:Styletips/5 – Case in expanded abbreviations Wikipedia:Styletips/6 – Gender-neutral language Wikipedia:Styletips/7 – No initial the or a in article and section titles Wikipedia:Styletips/8 – Downcase the generics Wikipedia:Styletips/9 – Unit symbols: spacing Wikipedia:Styletips/10 – Instructional and presumptuous language Wikipedia:Styletips/11 – Including Wikipedia:Styletips/12 – Current Wikipedia:Styletips/13 – Within-text attribution Wikipedia:Styletips/14 – Emphasizing a word Wikipedia:Styletips/15 – Block quotes Wikipedia:Styletips/16 – Unit symbols: figures Wikipedia:Styletips/17 – Seasons Wikipedia:Styletips/18 – Ampersand Wikipedia:Styletips/19 – Circa Wikipedia:Styletips/20 – US or U.S.? Wikipedia:Styletips/21 – Pluralizing abbreviations Wikipedia:Styletips/22 – Points and spaces in abbreviations Wikipedia:Styletips/23 – Quotations: allowable typographical changes Wikipedia:Styletips/24 – Formatting titles of literature and art Wikipedia:Styletips/25 – Italics for emphasis Wikipedia:Styletips/26 – Overlinking Wikipedia:Styletips/27 – Subset terms Wikipedia:Styletips/28 – Dashes in article titles Wikipedia:Styletips/29 – Dates (I) Wikipedia:Styletips/30 – Currency symbols Wikipedia:Styletips/31 – Dates (II) Wikipedia:Styletips/32 – No hyphen after -ly adverbs Wikipedia:Styletips/33 – Hyphens can avoid ambiguity Wikipedia:Styletips/34 – Hanging hyphens

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... Presumptuous language Avoid phrases such as remember that and note that, which address readers directly in an unencyclopedic tone. Similarly, phrases such as of course, naturally, obviously, clearly, and actually make presumptions about readers' knowledge, and call into question the reason for including the information in the first place. Read more ... Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}

See also

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
• User:Tony1/Beginners' guide to the Manual of Style – a summary of the main Manual of Style page
• 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 were 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