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| * 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. | | * 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. |
| ** 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. | | ** 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. |
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| * To refer to a decade as a chronological period ''per se'' (not with reference to a social era or cultural phenomenon) always use four digits ({{xt|the{{nbsp}}1980s}}, but not {{!xt|the{{nbsp}}1980's}} or {{!xt|the{{nbsp}}1980{{nbh}}ies}}, and {{em|definitely}} not {{!xt|the{{nbsp}}1980s'}}).
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| :* Prefixes should be hyphenated ({{xt|the{{nbsp}}mid{{nbh}}1980s}};{{nbsp}} {{xt|pre{{nbh}}1960s social attitudes}}).<!-- Nonbreaking hyphens {{nbh}} are used in some examples to keep them from being fragmented over linebreaks here in MOS; that's not to say {{nbh}} ought to be used in "real life" in such situations. -->
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| * For a social era or cultural phenomenon associated with a particular decade:
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| :* Two digits (with a preceding apostrophe) may be used as an alternative to four digits, {{em|but only if this is a well-established phrase seen in reliable sources}} ({{xt|the{{nbsp}}Roaring{{nbsp}}'20s}},{{nbsp}} {{xt|the{{nbsp}}Gay{{nbsp}}'90s}},{{nbsp}} {{xt|condemning the '60s counterculture}}, but {{xt|grew up in 1960s Boston, moving to Dallas in{{nbsp}}1971}}, and do not write {{!xt|the{{nbsp}}90's}};{{nbsp}} {{!xt|the{{nbsp}}90s}};{{nbsp}} or {{!xt|the{{nbsp}}90s'}}).
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| :* A third alternative (where seen in reliable sources) is to spell the decade out, capitalized: {{xt|changing attitudes of the Sixties}}
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| ====<span id="centuries"></span><span id="millennia"></span>Centuries and millennia==== | | ====<span id="centuries"></span><span id="millennia"></span>Centuries and millennia==== |
