Wikipedia:Update/1/General style changes during November 2008
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- WP:Accessibility
- Added example code for user's monobook.js page to show footnotes in full sized text.
- Added advice on "colspan", "rowspan", and "non-text comment" in tables.
- WP:Avoid neologisms
- Added WP:NPOV to the list of policies in the sentence "Articles that use neologisms should be edited to ensure they conform with the core Wikipedia policies: no original research and verifiability"
- WP:Avoid peacock terms
- Added the words "long", "mediocre", "primary" and "short" to the list of words to watch out for
- Added mention of adding {{Peacock term}} to a peacock term in a sentence.
- Wikipedia:External links
- Remove the repeated "it" from list at the beginning of the "What to link" section.
- Rewording of instruction not to link to advertisement pages, clarifying that it refers to the page (not the site)
- Clarification in the instruction not to link to "search result" pages
- Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
- In Spelling section, added list of talk page banners to indicate that an article uses American, Australian, British or Canadian spelling
- Added a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
- Wikipedia:Lead section
- Added "Lead sections that reflect or expand on sections in other articles are discussed at Summary style. Journalistic conventions for lead sections are discussed at News style."
- Removed reference to the Wikipedia DVD.
- Added See also link to Wikipedia's Good definition policy; removed a recent See also link.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- "Edits correcting deviations from written style guidelines should not be reverted" was softened a bit to "revert-warring over optional styles is unacceptable"; other points in this section were rephrased, but not significantly.
- Added subsections: WP:MOS#Apostrophes, WP:MOS#Semicolons, and WP:MOS#Punctuation at the end of a sentence
- Expanded subsection: WP:MOS#Colons
- Additional information on question marks, exclamation points, and hyphens
- The discussion on linking dates continues.
- Names of currencies are usually lowercased.
- "address readers directly" is now linked to Imperative mood.
- Added link to Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Many changes to WP:MOS#Images
- WP:MOS#Bulleted and numbered lists gives more advice on punctuation.
- WP:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- Page is protected pending resolution of date-linking issues.
- Added regarding YYYY-MM-DD style dates: "(If the only purpose why they are used in a particular table is ease of comparison, consider using
{{sort|2008-11-01|1 November 2008}}.)"
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)
- Added: "Keeping possessive apostrophes inside the link, where possible, makes for more readable text and source".
- Added this sentence, along with supporting reference: "Because academic research conducted in 2008 has shown that red links are what drives Wikipedia growth, it is important not to deal with type #1 red links [for articles not yet created] by simply removing their brackets."
- Changed a link to Category:Language icon templates
- The discussion on linking dates continues.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling)
- Added details on -ize vs. -ise in the UK
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting)
- Added link to Template:Lang/doc
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles)
- Use italics for multi-episode television serials and musicals.
- Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context
- The discussion on linking dates continues.
- Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid
- Removed link to Template:Illustrated Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Words to avoid
- Added link to the NPOV Noticeboard: WP:NPOVN#Discussion concerning "terrorist" and related words at Wikipedia:Words to avoid