Wikipedia:Update/1/General style changes during October 2008

• WP:Accessibility
  • Added "Images should be inside the section they belong to (after the header and after any links to other articles), and not just before the header."
• WP:Avoid peacock terms
  • Added "Deciding whether a particular wording is suitable on any given occasion is a matter of common sense and good editorial judgment."
• Wikipedia:External links
  • Added that a "link to a social networking site may be included when it is the official website for a business, organization, or person."
  • Added as an example of what shouldn't be linked: "Links that are not reliably functional, or likely to continue being functional."
• Wikipedia:Lead section
  • Many changes; hard to summarize
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • The First sentences section is now transcluded.
  • Added "Dashes should never be used in the filenames of images (use hyphens instead). If used in an article's title, there should be a redirect from the version with a hyphen."
  • Added at MOS:IMAGES: "The following general guidelines should be followed in the absence of a compelling reason to do otherwise."
  • Other resources renamed Further reading
• WP:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
  • Added a two-sentence summary of WP:As of (it was already linked).
  • the sixties is not recommended; use "the 1960s".
  • Strengthened: "YYYY-MM-DD style dates (1976-05-31) are uncommon in English prose, and should not be used within sentences."
  • Scientific notation should now use the {{e}} template.
  • "thin spaces" are now acceptable in place of commas for numbers greater than 10,000 in scientific contexts. See this guideline for details.
  • Added details on "geographical coordinates"
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)
  • Many changes.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting)
  • Removed requirement to use <var> formatting for variables in computer programs
  • Use italics for named locomotives
• Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context
  • Many changes.
• Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid
  • Added mention of the controversy over images of Mohammed in Wikipedia
  • Lists of Wikipedia articles should go in the portal namespace, "as discussing Wikipedia contents".
• Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions
  • Added link to Wikipedia:Federal Standard 1037C terms
• Wikipedia:Words to avoid
  • Removed "purportedly"
  • Added section: Only, just
  • "simply" added to words that "imply a preferred viewpoint"
  • some tweaks to the "terrorist" section
  • "-gate" added as a non-neutral suffix
  • Wikipedia:Avoid parroting link added (but deleted in November)
• Wikipedia:Writing better articles
  • Deleted link and summary for Wikipedia:proseline
  • Deleted link and summary for WP:Article series
  • First sentence section now transcluded
  • Deleted "Try to bridge each sentence with the sentence before it by using an idea or word that appears in both sentences."
  • {{reflist}} added