Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/MUSTARD/Punctuation

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[edit] Punctuation

  1. When putting titles in quotes or italics, put the punctuation outside the quotemark or italicization. For example, "I listened to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", one of my favorite songs, from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of my favorite albums."
  2. Sentences should in end in periods. Exclamation marks are an example of unencyclopedic tone outside of direct, cited and described quotations. Question marks are also rarely appropriate in encyclopedic writing (e.g. don't do: What was grunge music? It was a youth subculture...). This also applies to section headings.
  3. Things that are not sentences should not end in period. If you make a list and it includes descriptions that are not complete sentences, do not use a period. If the list does use complete sentences, use periods. Be consistent.
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