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 ====Seasons====
-{{shortcut|MOS:SEASON}}
 * Seasons are uncapitalized ({{xt|a hot summer}}) except when personified: {{xt|Old Man Winter's bleak greys relent as Spring begins to show her colors}}.
-* Using seasons to refer to a particular time of year ({{!xt|winter 1995}}) is ambiguous for two reasons:
+* All seasons used should refer to seasons in the northern hemisphere, as that is where CCP is located, and is thus the reference point for game development, patch releases, and other events.
-** the same names are used for both [[northern hemisphere]] and [[southern hemisphere]] seasons, which occur six months apart, and;
+** In the rare case where an article references seasons in relation to a specific country or region ''not'' in the northern hemisphere, the appropriate season for that location may be used.
-** areas near the equator have only [[Wet season|wet]] and [[dry season]]s.
-:Unambiguous alternatives include {{xt|early 1995}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|the first quarter of 1995}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|January to March 1995}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|spent the southern summer in Antarctica}}.
-* Referring to a season by name is appropriate when it is part of a formal or conventional name or designation ({{xt|annual mid-winter festival}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|the autumn harvest}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|2018 Winter Olympics}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|''Times'' Fall Books Supplement}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|Details appeared in ''Quarterly Review'', Summer&nbsp;2015}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|The Court's winter term}}).
 ====Decades====