Wikipedia:WikiProject Manual of Style

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WikiProject Manual of Style is a project whose mission is to coordinate the multiple pages which form the Manual of Style guidelines.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Open tasks 3 Manual of Style pages 4 Participants 5 Templates and categories

[edit] Scope

Style and formatting
Manual of Style and its subpages
Abbreviations Accessibility Anime & manga articles Biographies Capital letters Chemistry Command-line examples Dates and numbers Disambiguation pages Icons (e.g., flags, logos, etc.) Infoboxes Legal Links Lists of works Mathematics Medicine Military history Music Pronunciation Spelling Text formatting Titles Trademarks Writing about fiction
Related policies and guidelines
Captions Categorization Categorization of people Citing sources Explain jargon External links Film guidelines Footnotes Layout Lead section Lists Make technical articles accessible Music samples Naming conventions Overlinking Proper names Stubs Summary style Technical terms Trivia sections Writing better articles Wikimedia sister projects Words to avoid
Related help, tutorials and proposals
Glossary How to edit a page Picture tutorial Sections
Related to specific cultures
Arabic-related articles Chinese language Chinese history Ethiopia-related articles France & French-related Hebrew transliteration India-related articles Ireland-related articles Islam-related articles Japan-related articles Korea-related articles Latter Day Saints Philippines-related articles Portugal-related articles Singapore-related articles Thailand-related articles Syriac/Assyrian-related articles United Kingdom nationalities U.S. highways

The Wikipedia Manual of Style is a key guideline for writing Wikipedia articles. Its provisions are now spread across many different pages, and coordinating it has become a challenging task. The purpose of this WikiProject is to address this challenge.

Goals

• To provide a forum to discuss issues which cut across several Manual of Style pages, and any other issues which are related to the Wikipedia Manual of Style, including Wikipedia article naming conventions.
• To facilitate communication between editors interested in different aspects of the Manual of Style (and its sub-guidelines and related pages), and encourage editors to think of the Manual of Style as a whole.
• To identify discrepancies between individual Manual of Style pages, and encourage the resolution of these discrepancies.
• To develop guidelines for adding new pages to the Manual of Style, and for dividing or combining current Manual of Style pages.
• To develop a proposal regarding the status of the Manual of Style within Wikipedia: as a set of guidelines, or as policy.
• To provide a notice board (presently WT:MOSCO) for Manual of Style and naming convention proposals for merge, split, rename, etc.
• To provide a cooperative and collegial forum for centralised discussion of style issues on Wikipedia.

This WikiProject aims to be as inclusive as possible: anyone can be involved, and all contributions are welcome. It is important that the WikiProject reflect the consensus of editors of all Manual of Style pages. Where editors at different pages disagree, the project aims to facilitate discussion rather than impose solutions. This page is a project, not a guideline, and so it can only help to organise communication between editors; it cannot change guidelines.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Manual of Style pages

• Pages using the Manual of Style template
• Pages marked as Manual of Style guidelines

[edit] Participants

Please add your user name in alphabetical order.

• Cas Liber
• Christopher Parham
• Colin
• Dank55
• Dekimasu
• Eleassar
• Emerson7
• Eruhildo
• Geometry guy
• Graham Colm
• Kotniski
• Kubanczyk
• Maralia
• Matthewedwards
• Morphh
• Ned Scott
• Nihonjoe
• Noetica
• Rlandmann
• Roger Davies
• SandyGeorgia
• SMcCandlish
• Septentrionalis
• Taku
• The Duke of Waltham
• Tony1

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[edit] Templates and categories

• {{Style}}, the style navbox
• {{MoS-guideline}}, for tagging pages that form part of the Manual of Style
• {{subcat guideline}}, for tagging any kind of guideline (use the "|style guideline" parameter to identify a non-MoS style guideline)
• {{WPMOS}}, this project's talk page banner
• {{RFCstyle}}, which lists RfCs at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Style issues (show bot edits to have changes appear in your watchlist).

	WikiProject Manual of Style
	v • d • e This page falls within the scope of WikiProject Manual of Style, a drive to identify and address contradictions and redundancies, improve language, and coordinate the pages that form the MoS guidelines.