User:Eddie891/MOS Notes

Commas

  • MOS:GEOCOMMA & MOS:DATECOMMA: commas follow all levels of geographical organization (Ex: " In Gotham, State of Nirvana, the..." not "In Gotham, State of Nirvana the..." as well as after dates (On February 29, 1835, the..." not "On February 29, 1835 the"
  • MOS:SERIAL: Oxford comma's should be consistently present or not in an article, except for when introducing ambiguity
  • MOS:QUOTEMARKS
    • The use of a comma before a quotation embedded within a sentence is optional as long as it sounds good
      • no commas with partial quotes usually: The report observed "a 45% reduction in transmission rate".
      • usually commas with interrupted quotes: "Life", Anaïs Nin wrote, "shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
      • Is required to make stuff read well: In Margaret Mead's view, "we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities" to enrich our culture. <-- If there were no quotation marks, there would be a comma, so it is still needed
      • Is not used if it confuses meaning

misc

  • MOS:ACRO recommends giving the full term with the acronym on first use in the lead and body.
  • MOS:CAPTION If a caption forms a complete sentence, it receives terminal punctuation. Sentence fragments don't receive terminal punctuation.
    • all images should have a caption unless they are "unambiguous depictions of the subject of the article or when they are "self-captioning" images"
  • MOS:COLON: Colons introduce a list but should be removed when the sentence reads well without it. The list, followed by a colon into a description is awkward but permissible.
  • MOS:QUOTEMARKS: Use " <-- straight quotation marks. Do not use accent marks, backticks (`text´), low-high („ “) or guillemet (« ») marks as quotation marks.
    • Plant cultivars take single quotation marks
      • as do simple glosses that translate or define unfamiliar terms
    • quotation marks at the beginning of an article go in bold if, and only if they are part of the article title
        • Colons for complete sentence quotes
  • Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Words_as_words: Use italics when mentioning a word or character, or for a sentence being mentioned quotation marks may be used, or to define a term
  • MOS:ITALQUOTE: quoting is done only with quotation marks.
    • Use italics within quotations to reproduce emphasis that exists in the source material.
  • MOS:NUMNOTES comparable numbers should be both written in words or both in figures

nit picky

  • It's not a bad idea to put non-breaking spaces with day-month, month-year (with no day) and number-unit combinations as well, if the article is reasonably stable.
  • This is a particularly nit-picky area of capitalization. MOS:JOBTITLE says to not capitalize titles unless directly attached to a name.

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