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This guideline is a part of the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus.

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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:MOS, WP:STYLE)
The main page of the Manual of Style. It contains general remarks, summaries of the guidance to be found on certain other MoS pages, and fully detailed guidance on certain topics:
- How to deal with national varieties of English (MOS:ENGVAR)
- Language for section headings (MOS:HEAD)
- How to format quotations (MOS:QUOTE)
- The preferred usage of punctuation (MOS:PUNCT), the largest section specific to the main Manual of Style page
- Miscellaneous grammatical issues including the writing of possessives, use of pronouns, the ampersand (MOS:&), collective plurals (MOS:PLURALS), and general guidelines for dealing with non-English words and languages.
- Usage of images (MOS:IMAGES).
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations (MOS:ABBR)
- Use of periods, disambiguation, and which abbreviations need and need not be spelled out first.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility (MOS:ACCESS)
- Details recommended editing practices for best web accessibility of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters (MOS:CAPS)
- When and when not to use capitals, including all-caps (MOS:ALLCAPS).
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions (WP:CAPTION)
- Best practices for writing and formatting image captions.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers (MOS:NUM)
- Covers time and date formatting, including seasons (MOS:TIME), recommendations for numbers and their notation, which units to use and how to format and abbreviate them (MOS:UNITS), dealing with currencies (MOS:CURRENCY) and geographical coordinates (MOS:COORDS).
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists (WP:EMBED)
- When to and not to use a list instead of prose within an article.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons (MOS:ICON)
- On the use of small images within text.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout (MOS:LAYOUT)
- Ordering of content within articles, structures of standard appendices (MOS:APPENDIX).
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section (MOS:LEAD)
- Everything about the article opener, including the guidance on bolding the subject's name (MOS:BOLDTITLE)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking (MOS:LINKS)
- Everything about the best use of wikilinks.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists (MOS:LISTS)
- How and when to use lists on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works (MOS:WORKS)
- Presenting a list of works by the article's subject.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation (MOS:PRON)
- How to introduce pronunciation data in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Proper names (MOS:PN)
- Details how Wikipedia:Article titles applies within the text of articles.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid (MOS:SELF)
- How to avoid mentioning Wikipedia itself, or the fact the article is a webpage.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling (MOS:SPELLING)
- Not a guideline per se, but a handy guide to national varieties of English.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists (WP:STANDALONE)
- Goes into greater details than MOS:LISTS.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables (WP:TABLES)
- The use and formatting of wikitables.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting (MOS:TEXT)
- The use of bold (MOS:BOLD), italics (MOS:ITALICS), and font size (MOS:FONTSIZE) are all discussed here.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks (MOS:TM)
- Dealing with the idiosyncratic formatting of many trademarks.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections (WP:TRIVIA)
- How to avoid accumulation of poorly formatted miscellaneous information.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch (MOS:WTW)
- Techniques for recognizing and dealing with puffery (MOS:PUFF), charged words (MOS:LABEL and MOS:CLAIM), weasel and doubtful words (MOS:WEASEL and MOS:ALLEGED), editorializing (MOS:EDITORIAL), euphemisms (MOS:EUPHEMISM), clichés (MOS:CLICHE) and rapidly dated expressions (MOS:RELTIME) are all to be found here.

Items outside article text

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Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Article message boxes (WP:AMBOX)
- Legacy page describing the styling of these banner templates.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages (MOS:DAB)
- What to include, how to format it and in which order.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes (WP:IBX)
- Design of infobox templates.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Wikipedia books (WP:MOSBOOKS)
- The styling of books.

Topic- and culture-specific guidelines

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Topic-specific

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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 (MOS:ANIME)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography (MOS:BIO)
- How to deal with all the parts of the name, including post-nominal letters (MOS:INITIALS) and honorifics (MOS:HONORIFIC).
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Chemistry (MOS:CHEM)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Comics (WP:CMOS)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Cue sports (MOS:CUE)
- For all billiards/pool games, but see also MOS:SNOOKER for snooker-specific additions.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Figure skating (WP:FS STYLE)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Film (MOS:FILM)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles (MOS:ISLAM)
- Transliteration and terminology, religious text references
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Latter Day Saints (MOS:LDS)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Legal (MOS:LEGAL)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics (MOS:MATHS)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles (MOS:MED)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Military history (MOS:MILHIST)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music (MOS:MUSIC)
- Also covers musical notation (in text and images), and use of italics for classical music works
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music samples (WP:SAMPLE)
- Fair-use policy on this issue, and how to present them in articles.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels (WP:NOVELS)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philosophy (MOS:PHILO)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Record charts (WP:CHARTS)
- The ordering, presentation and sourcing of chart information
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Road junction lists (MOS:RJL)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Snooker (MOS:SNOOKER)
- Much of MOS:CUE also applies.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings (MOS:TUNINGS)
- Spun out from MOS:MUSIC
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Television (MOS:TV)
- Covers television series, seasons and episodes.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles (MOS:TITLE)
- About the use of italics or quotation marks for titles of works.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Video games (MOS:VG)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts (MOS:VA)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction (MOS:FICTION)
- How to keep the right perspective, source and present in-universe information and similar aspects of writing about fiction.

Country-, region- and language-specific

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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 (MOS:CA)
- Covers mostly disambiguation, French names and sourcing population data.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/France and French-related articles (MOS:FR)
- Accents and their effects on sorting, capitalization of works, noble titles.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hawaii-related articles (MOS:HAWAII)
- Capitalization and use of Hawaiian diacritics.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/India-related articles (MOS:INDIA)
- Content and naming conventions.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Indonesia-related articles (MOS:INDONESIA)
- Naming and spelling conventions.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles (MOS:IE)
- Historical issues, Irish vs. English, reference to counties
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles (MOS:JP)
- Mostly issues of romanization and plural, but also terminology, addresses and related matters
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philippines-related articles (MOS:PHIL)
- Choice of ethnonym, use of diacritics, disambiguation, name of subdivisions
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Poland-related articles (MOS:PL)
- Terminology, pronunciation, and spelling
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Singapore-related articles (MOS:SG)
- Mostly covers names of people

Other relevant pages

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

Wikipedia:Article titles (WP:AT)
- Principles for choosing the titles of articles. Contains links to many topic-related naming convention pages.
Wikipedia:Citing sources (WP:CITE)
- Guidance on organizing and formatting references.
Wikipedia:Summary style (WP:SUMMARY)
- Method used when a section becomes its own article.

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.

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Philosophy	Articles are more important than policy Articles must be written All Five Pillars are equally important Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Civil POV pushing Cohesion Competence is required Concede lost arguments Dissent is not disloyalty Don't lie Don't search for objections Duty to comply Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country Editors will sometimes be wrong Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Explanationism External criticism of Wikipedia Five pillars Here to build an encyclopedia Large language models Leave it to the experienced Levels of competence Levels of consensus Most ideas are bad Need Not broken is ugly Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction Not every article can be a Featured Article The one question Oversimplification Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Process is important Product, process, policy Purpose Reasonability rule Systemic bias There is no seniority Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia Tendentious editing The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Trifecta We are absolutely here to right great wrongs Wikipedia in brief Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Wikipedia is a community Wikipedia is not RationalWiki
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Writing article content	Avoid thread mode Copyediting reception sections Coup Don't throw more litter onto the pile Gender-neutral language Myth vs fiction Proseline Turning biology research into a Wikipedia article Use our own words We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions Write the article first Writing about women Writing better articles Reading in a Flow State
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The basics	Accepting other users Apology Autistic editors Being right isn't enough Contributing to complicated discussions Divisiveness Don't retaliate Editors' pronouns Edit at your own pace Encouraging the newcomers Enjoy yourself Expect no thanks How to be civil Maintaining a friendly space Negotiation Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors Please say please Relationships with academic editors Thank you Too long; didn't read Truce Unblock perspectives We are all Wikipedians here You have a right to remain silent
Philosophy	A thank you never hurts A weak personal attack is still wrong Advice for hotheads An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Beware of the tigers! Civility warnings Deletion as revenge Duty to comply Failure Forgive and forget It's not the end of the world Nobody cares Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals On Wikipedia no one knows I'm a dog Old-fashioned Wikipedian values Profanity, civility, and discussions Revert notification opt-out Shadowless Fists of Death! Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word There is no Divine Right of Editors Most ideas are bad Nothing is clear Reader The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Two wrongs don't make a right Wikipedia clichés Wikipedia is not about winning Wikipedia should not be a monopoly Writing for the opponent
Dos	Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Be excellent to one another Be pragmatic Beyond civility Call a spade a spade Candor Deny recognition Desist Discussing cruft Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Encourage full discussions Get over it How to lose Imagine others complexly Just drop it Keep it concise Keep it down to earth Mind your own business Say "MOBY" Mutual withdrawal Read before commenting Read the room Settle the process first You can search, too
Don'ts	ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI Wikipedia:Because I can Civil POV pushing Cyberbullying Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack Don't be a fanatic Don't be a jerk Don't be an ostrich Don't be ashamed Don't be a WikiBigot Don't be high-maintenance Don't be inconsiderate Don't be obnoxious Don't be prejudiced Don't be rude Don't be the Fun Police Don't bludgeon the process Don't call a spade a spade Don't call people by their real name Don't call the kettle black Don't call things cruft Don't come down like a ton of bricks Don't cry COI Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify Don't eat the troll's food Don't fight fire with fire Don't give a fuck Don't help too much Don't ignore community consensus Don't knit beside the guillotine Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature Don't remind others of past misdeeds Don't shout Don't spite your face Don't take the bait Don't template the regulars Don't throw your toys out of the pram Do not insult the vandals Griefing Hate is disruptive Nationalist editing No angry mastodons just madmen No Nazis No racists No Confederates No queerphobia No, you can't have a pony Passive aggression POV railroad Superhatting There are no oracles There's no need to guess someone's preferred pronouns You can't squeeze blood from a turnip UPPERCASE
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