User:Eddie891/MOS Notes

Commas

 * MOS:GEOCOMMA & MOS:DATECOMMA: commas follow all levels of geographical organization (Ex: " In Gotham, State of Nirvana, the..." not "In Gotham, State of Nirvana the..." as well as after dates (On February 29, 1835, the..." not "On February 29, 1835 the"
 * MOS:SERIAL: Oxford comma's should be consistently present or not in an article, except for when introducing ambiguity
 * MOS:QUOTEMARKS
 * The use of a comma before a quotation embedded within a sentence is optional as long as it sounds good
 * no commas with partial quotes usually: The report observed "a 45% reduction in transmission rate".
 * usually commas with interrupted quotes: "Life", Anaïs Nin wrote, "shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
 * Is required to make stuff read well: In Margaret Mead's view, "we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities" to enrich our culture. <-- If there were no quotation marks, there would be a comma, so it is still needed
 * Is not used if it confuses meaning

misc

 * MOS:ACRO recommends giving the full term with the acronym on first use in the lead and body.
 * MOS:CAPTION If a caption forms a complete sentence, it receives terminal punctuation. Sentence fragments don't receive terminal punctuation.
 * all images should have a caption unless they are "unambiguous depictions of the subject of the article or when they are "self-captioning" images"
 * MOS:COLON: Colons introduce a list but should be removed when the sentence reads well without it. The list, followed by a colon into a description is awkward but permissible.
 * MOS:QUOTEMARKS: Use " <-- straight quotation marks. Do not use accent marks, backticks (`text´), low-high („ “) or guillemet (« ») marks as quotation marks.
 * Plant cultivars take single quotation marks
 * as do simple glosses that translate or define unfamiliar terms
 * quotation marks at the beginning of an article go in bold if, and only if they are part of the article title
 * Colons for complete sentence quotes
 * Manual_of_Style: Use italics when mentioning a word or character, or for a sentence being mentioned quotation marks may be used, or to define a term
 * MOS:ITALQUOTE: quoting is done only with quotation marks.
 * Use italics within quotations to reproduce emphasis that exists in the source material.
 * MOS:NUMNOTES comparable numbers should be both written in words or both in figures

nit picky

 * It's not a bad idea to put non-breaking spaces with day-month, month-year (with no day) and number-unit combinations as well, if the article is reasonably stable.
 * This is a particularly nit-picky area of capitalization. MOS:JOBTITLE says to not capitalize titles unless directly attached to a name.