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Several of the above provisions are also applicable to table headers, including sentence case and redundancy. Table headers are often useful places for citations (e.g., the source of all the data in a column), and many do begin with or are numbers. Table headers do not automatically generate link anchors. ''(For more information see {{Section link|UniWiki:Manual of Style/Tables|Captions and headers}}.)'' | Several of the above provisions are also applicable to table headers, including sentence case and redundancy. Table headers are often useful places for citations (e.g., the source of all the data in a column), and many do begin with or are numbers. Table headers do not automatically generate link anchors. ''(For more information see {{Section link|UniWiki:Manual of Style/Tables|Captions and headers}}.)'' | ||
= Retaining existing styles = | |||
For some elements of style, there is more than one format that is acceptable. In general, editors should not change articles between acceptable formats unless there is some substantial reason for the change (unrelated to the choice of style or the preference of the editor), and edit-warring between optional styles is unacceptable. | |||
Examples of topic-specific versions of this guideline include: | |||
* [[UniWiki:Manual of Style#National varieties of English|Varieties of English]] | |||
* [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Retaining existing format|Date formats]] | |||
* [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Era style|Era styles]] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#WP:CITEVAR Variations of citation style] (where applicable) | |||
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