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Punctuation

• Inline citations are generally placed after any punctuation with no intervening space. See [[MOS:PAIC]].
• If month is before day, a comma is often written after the year. See [[Wikipedia:COPYEDIT#Common_edits|Basic copy-editing #7]].
• Style guide prefers and recommends an ellipsis is three unspaced full stops/periods. See [[WP:ELLIPSES]].
• Style guide prefers no punctuation at the end of each item. See [[WP:BULLETLIST]].

Quotation Marks

• Double quotation marks is preferred in this case. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotation_marks.5BR.5D|style guide]].
• Punctuation goes outside quotation marks if it's not part of quoted material or direct speech. See [[WP:LQ]].
• Replaced curly style quotation marks with the recommended straight style. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotation_marks.5BR.5D|style guide]].

Other

• Removed blank lines between items in a bulleted or numbered format. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Bulleted_and_numbered_lists|style guide]].
• Wikipedia prefers not to use '''and/or'''. See [[MOS:ANDOR]].
• Wikipedia prefers using either U.S. or US, not USA. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(abbreviations)#Widely_used_abbreviations_in_Wikipedia|style guide]].
• Removed extra spacing.
• En dashes preferred in this case. See [[MOS:DASH]].

Unit symbols

• Values and unit symbols are separated by a non-breaking space. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Unit_symbols|style guide]].
• Values and units used as compound adjectives are hyphenated only where the unit is given as a whole word as per [[WP:HYPHEN]].
• Wikipedia prefers use of word "number" or "No." than # symbol when referring to numbers or rankings. See [[MOS:NUMBERSIGN]].
• Wikipedia prefers "per cent" or "percent" than % symbol in this case. See [[MOS:PERCENT]].

Dates

• Dates in article body text should all have the same format. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Full_date_formatting|style guide]].
• Dates in article references should all have the same format. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Full_date_formatting|style guide]].
• Seasons are not the same everywhere in the world. Generally preferable not to use season names to denote a time of year. See [[WP:SEASON]].

Numbers

• Single-digit whole numbers from zero to nine are spelled out in words. See [[WP:ORDINAL]].
• Numbers greater than nine are commonly rendered in numerals. See [[WP:ORDINAL]].
• Comparable quantities should be all spelled out or all figures. See [[WP:ORDINAL]].
• Numbers that begin a sentence are spelled out. See [[WP:ORDINAL]].
• Usually better to spell out first instance of each unit names. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Unit_names_and_symbols|style guide]]. Feel free to revert if inappropriate.

Codes

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• encyclopædia
• En dashes – (–) and Em dashes —
• Linking to diffs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARTICLE NAME?diff=ID NUMBER. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Rising_2?diff=385668781