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=== Do not invent abbreviations or acronyms === | === Do not invent abbreviations or acronyms === | ||
Generally avoid [[Wikipedia:No original research|making up]] new abbreviations, especially acronyms ('''Test Alliance Please Ignore''' is the registered name of a particularly powerful nullsec alliance, but neither it nor the reduction {{notthis|TAPI}} is used by the organization; so use its official abbreviation and ticker, {{dothis|TEST}}). If it is necessary to abbreviate in a tight space, such as a [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Tables#Captions and headers|header]] in a wide table of data, use widely recognized abbreviations (for {{dothis|New Zealand gross national product}}, use {{dothis|NZ}} and {{dothis|GNP}}, with a link if the term has not already been written out: {{dothis|NZ [[Wikipedia:Measures of national income and output|GNP]]}}; do not use the made-up initialism {{notthis|NZGNP}}). | Generally avoid [[Wikipedia:No original research|making up]] new abbreviations, especially acronyms ('''Test Alliance Please Ignore''' is the registered name of a particularly powerful nullsec alliance, but neither it nor the reduction {{notthis|TAPI}} is used by the organization; so use its official abbreviation and ticker, {{dothis|TEST}}). If it is necessary to abbreviate in a tight space, such as a [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Tables#Captions and headers|header]] in a wide table of data, use widely recognized abbreviations (for {{dothis|New Zealand gross national product}}, use {{dothis|NZ}} and {{dothis|GNP}}, with a link if the term has not already been written out: {{dothis|NZ [[Wikipedia:Measures of national income and output|GNP]]}}; do not use the made-up initialism {{notthis|NZGNP}}). | ||
=== Ampersand === | === Ampersand === | ||