User:Alanl/QuickRef

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Punctuation

 * Inline citations are generally placed after any punctuation with no intervening space. See MOS:PAIC.
 * If month is before day, a comma is often written after the year. See Basic copy-editing #7.
 * Style guide prefers and recommends an ellipsis is three unspaced full stops/periods. See WP:ELLIPSES.
 * Style guide prefers no punctuation at the end of each item. See WP:BULLETLIST.

Quotation Marks

 * Double quotation marks is preferred in this case. See style guide.
 * Punctuation goes outside quotation marks if it's not part of quoted material or direct speech. See WP:LQ.
 * Replaced curly style quotation marks with the recommended straight style. See style guide.

Other

 * Removed blank lines between items in a bulleted or numbered format. See style guide.
 * Wikipedia prefers not to use and/or. See MOS:ANDOR.
 * Wikipedia prefers using either U.S. or US, not USA. See style guide.
 * Removed extra spacing.
 * En dashes preferred in this case. See MOS:DASH.

Unit symbols

 * Values and unit symbols are separated by a non-breaking space. See style guide.
 * Values and units used as compound adjectives are hyphenated only where the unit is given as a whole word as per WP:HYPHEN.
 * Wikipedia prefers use of word "number" or "No." than # symbol when referring to numbers or rankings. See MOS:NUMBERSIGN.
 * Wikipedia prefers "per cent" or "percent" than % symbol in this case. See MOS:PERCENT.

Dates

 * Dates in article body text should all have the same format. See style guide.
 * Dates in article references should all have the same format. See style guide.
 * Seasons are not the same everywhere in the world. Generally preferable not to use season names to denote a time of year. See WP:SEASON.

Numbers

 * Single-digit whole numbers from zero to nine are spelled out in words. See WP:ORDINAL.
 * Numbers greater than nine are commonly rendered in numerals. See WP:ORDINAL.
 * Comparable quantities should be all spelled out or all figures. See WP:ORDINAL.
 * Numbers that begin a sentence are spelled out. See WP:ORDINAL.
 * Usually better to spell out first instance of each unit names. See style guide . Feel free to revert if inappropriate.

Codes

 * En dashes   and Em dashes
 * Linking to diffs. . For example,
 * En dashes   and Em dashes
 * Linking to diffs. . For example,