UniWiki:Manual of Style/Contents

This page is a part of the UniWiki's Manual of Style. It is a general guideline intended to harmonize article style across the UniWiki, though it is best treated with common sense, and exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should be approved by the Wiki Manager. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

This is a descriptive directory of the pages which make up the UniWiki Manual of Style. It includes only current guidelines, not proposals or historical pages.

Article content

• UniWiki:Manual of Style

  The main page of the Manual of Style. It contains general remarks, summaries of the guidance to be found on certain other UMoS pages, and fully detailed guidance on certain topics:

  • How to deal with national varieties of English
  • Language for section headings
  • The preferred usage of punctuation, the largest section specific to the main Manual of Style page
  • Miscellaneous grammatical issues including the writing of possessives, use of pronouns, the ampersand, collective plurals, and general guidelines for dealing with foreign words and languages.
  • Usage of images.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Abbreviations
  • Use of periods, disambiguation, and which abbreviations need and need not be spelled out first.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Accessibility
  • Details recommended editing practices for best web accessibility of the UniWiki.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Capital letters
  • When and when not to use capitals, including all-caps.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Captions
  • Best practices for writing and formatting image captions.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
  • Covers time and date formatting, including seasons, recommendations for numbers and their notation, which units to use and how to format and abbreviate them, and dealing with currencies.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Embedded lists
  • When to and not to use a list instead of prose within an article.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Icons
  • On the use of small images within text.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Layout
  • Ordering of content within articles, structures of standard appendices.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Lead section
  • Everything about the article opener, including the guidance on bolding the subject's name.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Linking
  • Everything about the best use of wikilinks.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Lists
  • How and when to use lists on the UniWiki.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Proper names
  • Details how Wikipedia:Article titles applies within the text of articles.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid
  • How to avoid mentioning the UniWiki itself, or the fact the article is a webpage.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Spelling
  • Not a guideline per se, but a handy guide to national varieties of English.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists
  • Goes into greater details than UniWiki:Manual of Style/Lists.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Tables
  • The use and formatting of wikitables.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Text formatting
  • The use of bold, italics, and font size are all discussed here.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Trivia sections
  • How to avoid accumulation of poorly formatted miscellaneous information.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Words to watch
  • Techniques for recognizing and dealing with puffery, charged words, weasel and doubtful words, editorializing, euphemisms, clichés and rapidly dated expressions are all to be found here.

Items outside article text

• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
  • What to include, how to format it and in which order.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Infoboxes
  • Design of infobox templates.

Topic-specific guidelines

• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Biographies
  • How to deal with all the parts of the name, including post-nominal letters and honorifics.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Mathematics
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Titles
  • All about the use of italics or quotation marks for titles of works.
• UniWiki:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction
  • How to keep the right perspective, source and present in-universe information and similar aspects of writing about fiction.

Other relevant pages

The following pages are not part of the Manual of Style, but contain related guidance.

• Wikipedia:Article titles
  • Principles for choosing the titles of articles. Contains links to many topic-related naming convention pages.
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
  • Guidance on organizing and formatting references.
• Wikipedia:Summary style
  • What happens when a section becomes an article.

See also

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style tutorial – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles.
• Simplified Manual of Style – the basics about commonly used style guidelines.
• Wikipedia:Styletips – a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting.

Related essays

• Wikipedia:Article development – lists the ways in which you can help an article grow.
  • Wikipedia:Basic copyediting – gives helpful advice on copy-editing.
  • Wikipedia:Writing better articles – guidance on how to make articles better.
  • Wikipedia:The perfect article – point by point guidance on what makes a great article.
• Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes – gives a list of common mistakes and how to avoid them.
• Wikipedia:Logical quotation – describes how to best use logical quotation in articles.

Other community standards (Note: Not all of these apply to the UniWiki; they are included for completeness and general guidance.)

• Wikipedia:List of policies – a comprehensive descriptive directory of policies
• Wikipedia:List of guidelines – a comprehensive descriptive directory of guidelines.
  • Wikipedia:Community standards and advice – a quick directory of community norms and related guidance essays.