Wikipedia:Update/1/General style changes during February 2009


 * Avoid peacock terms
 * Added "inspirational"


 * Avoid weasel words
 * In WP:WEASEL, removed pointer to the weasel-inline tag


 * Citing sources
 * Pointer added to WP:CIT [now reverted]
 * In WP:CITE, added "(article numbers in some electronic journals)"
 * In WP:CITE, added "Many editors prefer to reserve the section heading Bibliography for complete lists of published works in authors' biographies. The section heading Citations is often similarly reserved for military citations and government proclamations. Sources is often reserved for sections about source code, geological sources, anatomical and biological sources, and the locations where materials are procured."
 * In WP:CITE, added footnote: "Standard English employs similar usage: on Princeton's WordNet one of the definitions of "to cite" is "to make reference to." (See the entry halfway down the page here and note that it also explicitly lists "reference" as a synonym for "cite".)"


 * External links
 * [Waiting on the results of the ArbCom date-delinking case before I update]


 * Lead section
 * In WP:LEAD, added: "Foreign names (including transcriptions) that use the Roman alphabet should be italicized if they are not bolded; those written in other alphabets (such as Cyrillic) should not."
 * New section: WP:LEAD


 * Manual of Style
 * Most instances of "etc.", "i.e." and "e.g." were italicized.
 * Added: "Capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest lower case. Thus "Rules and regulations", not "Rules and Regulations"."
 * New section: WP:MOS
 * Added to WP:MOS: "This is primarily intended to avoid the (unlikely) case in which an article which will be overwhelmingly read by one nationality has been written in another national dialect. Australians should not stumble over Americanisms in Australian Defence Force; Americans should not find Anglicisms in American Civil War. Using an author's chosen variety of English may also be desirable in a biographical or critical article, especially if the author's writings are quoted in his article; some readers will be disconcerted by the shift between Tolkien's very English prose and another dialect, for example; however, some authors write in a mixture of national dialects. This recommendation should not be used to claim national ownership of certain articles; see WP:OWN."


 * Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
 * Page protection continues.
 * Added short explanation of val and gaps


 * Manual of Style (links)
 * [Waiting on the results of the ArbCom date-delinking case before I update]


 * Manual of Style (trademarks)
 * Added "or entity"; the edit summary mentions school trademarks


 * The perfect article
 * Added "consistent verb tense"


 * Words to avoid
 * Changed WP:AVOID substantially


 * Writing better articles
 * In WP:BETTER, added: "[news style] prioritizes information, because many people expect to find important material early, and less important information later where interest decreases."
 * Removed: "Moreover, if you find many related fiction stubs, merge them!"