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


 * Accessibility
 * Added to WP:ACCESS: Accessibility advocates


 * Avoid neologisms
 * In the lead section, removed: "Protologisms are neologisms that have not yet caught on widely. (In fact, "protologism" is a neologism to be avoided.)"


 * Avoid peacock terms
 * In the lead section, changed [do not help establish the significance of] "an article" to "a topic".


 * Avoid weasel words
 * In the lead section, changed [they just ...] "couch" [personal opinion in vague, indirect syntax] to "coach" [sic]


 * Citing sources
 * New subsection: WP:CITE
 * Added to WP:CITE: "See also: Template:Uw-unsourced1 - please cite sources"
 * Added to WP:CITE: [no method is preferred,] "though the use of embedded links for inline citations is not particularly recommended as a method of best practice and is not found in featured articles."
 * Added to WP:CITE: A suggested improvement 0001


 * External links
 * Added to lead section: [Wikipedia articles may include links to web pages outside Wikipedia but] "should not normally be used in the body of an article."
 * Added to WP:EL: [This guideline does not apply to inline citations] "or general references ..."
 * Added to WP:EL: "The official site should typically be listed first."
 * In WP:EL, changed "URL redirection sites are not to be used. Examples of these sites include tinyurl.com and tiny.cc." to "URL redirection sites are not to be used. Examples of these sites include tinyurl.com, tiny.cc and the .tk top level domain."


 * Layout
 * Reworded WP:LAYOUT, added focus on WP:ACCESS and removed "If the order in which sections should appear in a longer article is unclear, alphabetical or chronological order can be helpful. Alphabetical order is especially useful when sections are divided on the basis of criteria such as country or state."
 * Renamed WP:LAYOUT to WP:LAYOUT, with substantial changes from the May 31 version throughout


 * Lead section
 * In WP:LEAD, changed "page title" to "article's subject", and added: "The article's subject is usually the same as the page title, but not always. In lists (including outlines, indexes, and glossaries), the subject is generally preceded by the article type (such as "List of"). The article type should not be presented as the subject of the article, only the part after it should. For example, in Outline of Africa, the first sentence of the lead should describe Africa, and present it in bold - not Outline of Africa (the article is not about outlines of Africa, it is presenting an article on Africa in outline form)."
 * At the top of WP:LEAD, added "Main article:[sic] Biographies of living persons"
 * Changed WP:LEAD substantially from the May 31 version


 * Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
 * Added to WP:MOSNUM: "Roman numerals at the end of phrases such as World War II or Pope Benedict XVI"
 * Merged WP:MOSNUM into WP:MOSNUM, with changes
 * Added three paragraphs to WP:MOSNUM
 * Added to WP:MOSNUM: "The nowrap template ... can be used"
 * Added to WP:MOSNUM: [The binary prefixes are] "generally" [not to be used except ...]


 * Manual of Style (text formatting)
 * Merged examples from WP:MOSTEXT to WP:MOSTITLE


 * Manual of Style (titles)
 * Merged examples to WP:MOSTITLE from WP:MOSTEXT
 * Added to WP:MOSTITLE: "Entries in a longer work (dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.)"
 * New section, WP:MOSTITLE, containing some material moved up from another section, and also: "Do not include the quotes in any additional markup."
 * New section, WP:MOSTITLE, containing some material moved down from another section, and also: "Norse pagan scriptures, such as Gylfaginning, are also italicized."
 * Changed WP:MOSTITLE substantially from the May 31 version


 * Manual of Style (trademarks)
 * Added to WP:MOSTM: [Do not use the ™ and ® symbols, or similar,] "in either article text or citations"