Wikipedia:WikiProject Manual of Style

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WikiProject Manual of Style is a project whose mission is to coordinate the multiple pages which form the Manual of Style guidelines.

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Contents 1 Scope 2 Open tasks 3 Manual of Style pages 4 Participants 5 Templates and categories

[edit] Scope

Style and formatting
Manual of Style and its subpages
Abbreviations Accessibility Anime & manga articles Biographies Capital letters Chemistry Command-line examples Dates and numbers Disambiguation pages Flags & similar icons Infoboxes Latter Day Saints Legal Links Lists of works Manual of Style, main page Mathematics Medicine Military history guidelines Music Pronunciation Spelling Text formatting Titles Trademarks Writing about fiction
Related policies and guidelines
Captions Categorization Categorization of people Citing sources Explain jargon External links Film guidelines Footnotes Layout Lead section Lists Music samples Naming conventions Overlinking Proper names Stubs Summary style Technical terms Trivia sections Writing better articles Wikimedia sister projects Words to avoid
Related help, tutorials and proposals
Glossary How to edit a page Picture tutorial Sections
Related to specific cultures
Arabic-related articles Chinese language Chinese history Ethiopia-related articles France & French-related Hebrew transliteration India-related articles Ireland-related articles Islam-related articles Japan-related articles Korea-related articles Philippines-related articles Portugal-related articles Thailand-related articles Syriac/Assyrian-related articles United Kingdom nationalities U.S. highways

The Wikipedia Manual of Style is a key guideline for writing Wikipedia articles, but its provisions are now spread across many different pages. Coordinating the Manual of Style has become a challenging task, and the purpose of this WikiProject is to address this challenge.

Initial goals

• Provide a forum to discuss issues which cut across several Manual of Style pages, and any other issues which are related to the Manual of Style.
• Facilitate communication between editors interested in different aspects of the Manual of Style, and encourage editors to think of the Manual of Style as a whole.
• Identify discrepancies between individual Manual of Style pages, and encourage the resolution of these discrepancies.
• Develop guidelines for adding new pages to the Manual of Style, and for dividing or combining current Manual of Style pages.
• Develop a proposal regarding the status of the Manual of Style within Wikipedia: as a set of guidelines, or as policy.

Further goals

• Provide a cooperative and collegial forum for centralised discussion of style issues on Wikipedia.

This WikiProject aims to be as inclusive as possible: anyone can be involved, and all contributions are welcome. It is central to this WikiProject that it reflect and support the consensus of editors of all the Manual of Style pages. Where editors at different pages disagree, the project aims to facilitate discussion rather than impose solutions. This page is a project, not a guideline, and so it can only help to organise communication between editors; it cannot change guidelines.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Manual of Style pages

• Pages using the Manual of Style template
• Pages marked as Manual of Style guidelines

[edit] Participants

Please add your user name in alphabetical order.

• Cas Liber
• Christopher Parham
• Dank55
• Dekimasu
• Emerson7
• Eruhildo
• Geometry guy
• Kubanczyk
• Maralia
• Ned Scott
• Nihonjoe
• Noetica
• Rlandmann
• Roger Davies
• SandyGeorgia
• Septentrionalis
• Taku
• The Duke of Waltham
• Tony1

[edit] Templates and categories

• Template:Style
• Template:MoS-guideline