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

Items outside article text

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Article message boxes Template:Small
  • Legacy page describing the styling of these banner templates.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages Template:Small
  • What to include, how to format it and in which order.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes Template:Small
  • Design of infobox templates.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Wikipedia books Template:Small
  • The styling of books.

Topic- and culture-specific guidelines

Topic-specific

These usually originated as project guidelines, and typically cover all of terminology, layout, conventions and formatting related to the topic at hand.

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Anime- and manga-related articles Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies Template:Small
  • How to deal with all the parts of the name, including post-nominal letters Template:Small and honorifics Template:Small.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Chemistry Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Comics Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Cue sports Template:Small
  • For all billiards/pool games, but see also MOS:SNOOKER for snooker-specific additions.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Film Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles Template:Small
  • Transliteration and terminology, religious text references
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Latter Day Saints Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Legal Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Military history Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music Template:Small
  • Also covers musical notation (in text and images), and use of italics for classical music works
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music samples Template:Small
  • Fair-use policy on this issue, and how to present them in articles.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philosophy Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Record charts Template:Small
  • The ordering, presentation and sourcing of chart information
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Road junction lists Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Snooker Template:Small
  • Much of MOS:CUE also applies.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings Template:Small
  • Spun out from MOS:MUSIC
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Television Template:Small
  • Covers television series, seasons and episodes.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles Template:Small
  • All about the use of italics or quotation marks for titles of works.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts Template:Small
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction Template:Small
  • How to keep the right perspective, source and present in-universe information and similar aspects of writing about fiction.

Country-, region- and language-specific

A number of proposed or inactive language-specific guidelines exist, but they are not listed here; there are language-specific guidelines for several languages including Korean, Chinese and Hebrew; most issues are instead covered by naming conventions.

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles Template:Small
  • Covers mostly disambiguation, French names and sourcing population data.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/France and French-related Template:Small
  • Accents and their effects on sorting, capitalization of works, noble titles.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hawaii-related articles Template:Small
  • Capitalization and use of Hawaiian diacritics.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles Template:Small
  • Historical issues, Irish vs. English, reference to counties
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles Template:Small
  • Mostly issues of romanization and plural, but also terminology, addresses and related matters
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philippine-related articles Template:Small
  • Choice of ethnonym, use of diacritics, disambiguation, name of subdivisions
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Poland-related articles Template:Small
  • Terminology, pronunciation, and spelling
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Singapore-related articles Template:Small
  • Mostly covers names of people

Other relevant pages

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

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

See also

• Manual of Style tutorial – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles.
• Simplified Manual of Style – the basics about commonly used style guidelines.
  • Beginners' guide to the Manual of Style – a trimmed down version of the main Manual of Style page
• Styletips – a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule

Related essays

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

Other community standards

• List of policies – a comprehensive descriptive directory of policies
• List of guidelines – a comprehensive descriptive directory of guidelines.
  • Community standards and advice – a quick directory of community norms and related guidance essays.
• Advice pages – about advice pages written by WikiProjects.