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| | This page guides the presentation of numbers, dates, times, measurements, currencies and similar material in articles. Its aim is to promote clarity and cohesion; this is especially important {{em|within}} an article. The goal is to make the whole UniWiki easier and more intuitive to use. |
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| PLEASE MAKE MINOR CHANGES TO THIS TEXT ALSO TO THE EQUIVALENT TEXT AT MOS.
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| MORE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, ESPECIALLY TO THE ACTUAL STYLE RECOMMENDATIONS, NEED TO BE FLAGGED AT THE WT:MOS TALK PAGE BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION HERE AND AT MOS, UNLESS THEY INVOLVE SECTIONS HERE THAT HAVE NO EQUIVALENT AT MOS (e.g. GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES).
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| FORMATTING: This page makes heavy and very particular use of a lot of specific formatting. To avoid confusion concerning the proper formatting of units, symbols, values, variables, code, etc., please observe the following markup conventions on this page:
| | Where this manual provides options, consistency should be maintained within an article unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. If discussion cannot determine which style to use in an article, defer to the style used by the first major contributor. |
| - Use {{xt}} to mark up positive examples or required text.
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| - Use {{!xt}} to mark up negative examples or deprecated items.
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| - Use {{xtn}} to mark up items than may or may not be applied depending on context.
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| - Use {{xtg}} to mark up items that are very rarely applied – dubious, deprecated, disputed, only used in one context (this template may not be needed on this page but is available).
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| - Use double quotes to mark up words-as-words,"scare-quoting", and quoted sources, but not for unusual purposes. Italics are used heavily on this page for many other things, so do not use them for words-as-words.
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| - Use {{em}} to mark up emphasis.
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| - Reserve plain ''italic'' only for conventional stylistic, non-semantic use of italics (e.g. for titles of major published works, foreign phrases, etc.; see above about words-as-words).
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| - Use '''bold''' to mark up inline headers.
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| - Use {{strong}} to mark up strong emphasis (rarely needed; {{em}} will usually suffice).
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| - Use <code>...</code> (or <code><nowiki>...</nowiki></code> if needed) to mark up code examples, including individual special characters. Do not use <tt>; this element no longer exists in HTML5.
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| - Use {{var}} to mark up variables and variable input, not {{smallcaps}}, ''...'', or other markup.
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| - Use {{tlx}} to illustrate or name templates (or use {{tl}} if nested inside <code>...</code>).
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| - Use <kbd>...</kbd> in running prose to indicate editor input choices for templates (not necessary in actual code examples inside <code>...</code>)
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| - Use <samp>...</samp> in running prose to indicate example code output that should be monospaced, if the need arises.
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| - Use spaced en dashes, not run-together em dashes, especially with markup examples, so the dash cannot be confused as being part of the example.
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| - Use {{crossref}} for cross-references to other sections or pages. This produces consistent formatting, and helps identify cross-references in the code for periodic checking against "advice forking".
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| - Avoid italicization other than as specified above.
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| - Avoid {{shy}} in or near examples; should probably only be used inside tables, when width is a concern.
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| - Do not markup mention of units and the like outside the context of advice about their use;
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| example: 'Use {{xtn|m}} for "minute" only where there is no danger of confusion with meter'
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| ["meter" is not marked up here per this convention; "m" is marked up with {{xtn}} for conditional use; "minute" is double-quoted for words-as-words use].
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| This page guides the presentation of numbers, dates, times, measurements, currencies, coordinates, and similar material in articles. Its aim is to promote clarity and cohesion; this is especially important {{em|within}} an article. The goal is to make the whole encyclopedia easier and more intuitive to use.
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| Where this manual provides options, consistency should be maintained within an article unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. The [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee|Arbitration Committee]] has ruled that editors should not change an article from one guideline-defined style to another without a substantial reason unrelated to mere choice of style, and that revert-warring over optional styles is unacceptable.<ref>{{section link|Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jguk|Principles}}, {{section link|Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/jguk 2|Principles}}, and {{section link|Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sortan|Principles}}</ref> If discussion cannot determine which style to use in an article, defer to the style used by the first major contributor. | |
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| ==General notes== | | ==General notes== |
