User talk:Sbb/Glossary of photography terms

Original preferred styles

For the purposes of style debates (MOS:RETAIN, MOS:STYLERET), the following are hopefully clear choices for the style of this article:

• MOS:STYLERET, MOS:ENGVAR – The body text of this glossary uses American English. However, if a specific term is clearly most frequently spelled with a British variant, it should be used that way. Based on my unscientific sampling, most photographic terms I see referenced on the internet use American English (such as polarizer, diopter, etc.). Color vs. colour, gray vs. {!xt|grey}}, are equally used, and therefore arbitrary. Thus, the body text uses American English. Definition terms should identify and anchor both variants as much as possible, and should be marked-up with {{lang|en-US}} and {{lang|en-GB}} as appropriate. Don't markup a term definition with {{lang|en-US}} if there isn't a corresponding British English spelling term.
• MOS:DATERET, MOS:DATEUNIFY – Dates should {{Use dmy dates}} format (dd Mmm YYYY). Yes, this is not typically American date format. But MDY date format is dumb. As always, ISO-8601 date formats (YYYY-MM-DD) can be used in {{cite XXX}} templates. Speaking of...
• MOS:CITEVAR, Citation style – Citation Style 1.
• Inline references – Prefer <ref>{{harvnb}}/{{harvc}}</ref> or {{sfn}}. Inline <ref>{{cite}}</ref> for singleton references.
• Year disambiguation for multi-volume references – For example, Willard Morgan's Encyclopedia of Photography is 20 volumes, published (and republished) over multiple years. So regardless of the year of the reference, I've been giving a letter corresponding to the volume ('a' through 't') to the |date= parameter. That way, if one citation finds volume 15 in 1964 and another citation finds volume 15 published in 1968 (hypothetically), they would each be cited as {{sfn|Morgan|1964o}} and {{sfn|Morgan|1968o}}, even though [a–n] weren't necessarily used for "Morgan" references those years. It just seems to make it easier to reference multi-volumes-over-multiple-years works like that.
• Values / units – as much as possible, prefer using {{val}} for numbers with associated units. I.e., "35 mm" -> {{val|35|u=mm}}; {{val|100|-|400|u=mm}} -> 100–400 mm. For inch-dimensions, such as 1" sensor or 8" × 10", use {{1|u=in}} (1 in) and {{val|8|x|10|u=in}} (8 in × 10 in).
• Special characters
  • Aperture – use {{f/}} for f-numbers. {{f/|2}} -> f/2.
  • Times – use × instead of x for times: 4×, not 4x

 — sbb (talk) 08:08, 16 September 2023 (UTC)