Wikipedia:Update/2/General style guidelines, January 2009 to 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"


 * Accessibility
 * Added to WP:ACCESS: "Some clients may not use CSS, so relying on CSS for table borders may render incorrectly."


 * Avoid peacock terms
 * Added: "select(ed)"
 * Added section, WP:PEACOCK: "Do not impose Wikipedia style guidelines on sources that we cite or quote. It is proper to say, "Music critic Ann Bond wrote that Mozart was a great composer," or "Smith said, 'Senator Jones's acceptance of this contribution is a major scandal.'" Such indirect or direct quotations may be useful in presenting important perspectives, especially on contentious subjects, or in summarizing a widely held view."


 * Avoid weasel words
 * Removed many short examples
 * Removed from See also: Plain English Campaign


 * Citing sources
 * Removed several dubious tags
 * Added See also link: Bombardment


 * External links
 * In WP:EL, changed [Any site that misleads the reader by use of factually inaccurate material or unverifiable research.] "See Reliable sources for explanations of the terms "factually inaccurate material" or "unverifiable research"." to "except to a limited extent in articles about the viewpoints which such sites are presenting."
 * In a footnote in the same section: changed [a link to a social networking site may be included when it is] "the official website for a business, organization, or person." to "an official website for a business, organization, or person. However, Wikipedia does not provide a comprehensive web directory to every official website, and more than one official website should be listed only when the additional links provide unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites."
 * Added to same section: "Placing external links on Wikipedia navigation pages such as disambiguation, redirect and category."
 * Added footnote to same section and also to WP:EL: "This guideline does not restrict linking to websites that are being used as sources to provide content in articles."
 * In WP:EL, changed "Most YouTube videos containing copyrighted material (outside of the official YouTube channels of organizations and entertainment/news media companies) do not have permission of the copyright owners." to "Many YouTube videos of newscasts, shows or other content of interest to Wikipedia visitors are copyright violations."


 * Layout
 * WP:Layout changed to WP:Layout and expanded.


 * Lead section
 * Added to WP:LEAD: [When the page title is used as the subject of the first sentence, it may appear in a slightly different form, and it may include variations,] "including synonyms".
 * Added to same section: [If the page is a list, do not introduce the list as "This is a list of X"] "or "This list of Xs..."."
 * In WP:LEAD, changed "Inclusion of non-English names should be seen as a desirable part of maximizing information available to the reader." to "however, the editor needs to balance the desire to maximize making information available to the reader with the need to maintain readability of the lead."
 * Expanded WP:LEAD


 * Linking
 * Page protection was removed, and the page was substantially rewritten (last version in April, last version in May).


 * Manual of Style (capital letters)
 * Added section, WP:MOSCAP, and added text: "Wikipedia does capitalize initial letters of proper nouns, and often proper adjectives. In doing this, we follow common usage, and when decapitalized forms are the normal English usage (abelian group, k. d. lang), we follow common usage."
 * Added to WP:MOSCAP: "Use sentence-style capitalization, not title-style capitalization:"
 * Removed from WP:MOSCAP: "(Reference: Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed., 8.35; The Guardian Manual of Style, "Titles" keyword.)"
 * Added to WP:MOSCAP: "Proper names incorporated into Latin species names are not capitalised."
 * Removed from WP:MOSCAP: [In such cases, Wikipedia articles may use lower case variants of personal names if they have regular and established use in reliable third-party sources.] "Editors disagree on how often this should be done; some editors would never do it; some would always follow the personal preference of the subject."


 * Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
 * WP:MOSNUM was substantially changed.
 * Added to WP:MOSNUM: "other quasi-continuous quantities" [are normally stated in figures]
 * In WP:MOSNUM, changed [Scientific notation] "should use the val template, for example $5.8$ ." to "editors can use the val template, which generates such expressions with the syntax: ."
 * New section created for existing text: WP:MOSNUM
 * In WP:MOSNUM, changed "apart from US and some UK specific topics, use metric units." to "apart from region-specific topics, use internationally accepted units for the topic at hand."
 * Changed first paragraph of WP:MOSNUM slightly
 * Removed section: WP:MOSNUM
 * Removed from See also: Only make links that are relevant to the context


 * Manual of Style (titles)
 * Added to WP:MOSTITLE: "Cantatas and motets" and "Operas, operettas, oratorios"


 * Manual of Style (trademarks)
 * Added to WP:MOSTM: [avoid] "Se7en"


 * Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
 * Removed from WP:WAF: [An in-universe perspective] "gives undue weight to unimportant information"
 * Removed from WP:WAF: [due weight] "in terms of WP:NPOV"
 * Added examples and categories to WP:WAF


 * Words to avoid
 * Shortened WP:AVOID
 * Removed from WP:AVOID: "9/11 was fundamentally a battle between Christianity and Islam."


 * Avoid peacock terms
 * Added "successful"


 * Avoid weasel words
 * Added to WP:WEASEL: "Time sense. There is an "as of" guideline to help with articles that incorrectly use "recently" and "currently". The When template can be used where an editor wants to bring attention to a vague time reference in an article."


 * Citing sources
 * Small changes to WP:CITE
 * Minor wording changes to WP:CITE
 * In WP:CITE, the paragraph beginning "Editors are free to use any method" was shortened to remove some of the longer descriptions of the links.
 * The WP:CITE subsection was removed.
 * Links added to WP:CITE: Template:Citations missing, Citation needed.


 * External links
 * Added to WP:EL: "Twitter feeds"
 * Expanded WP:EL
 * Added to WP:EL: "[When linking to large database-driven sites] like the Internet Movie Database, [try to use an external link template]."


 * How to copy-edit
 * Added to top: "To find a list of articles that need copy editing, see Community_portal."


 * Layout
 * In WP:LAYOUT, after "A reasonable number of relevant links that would be in the body of a hypothetical "perfect article" are suitable to add to the "See also" appendix of a less developed one.": removed the footnote, "This of course refers only to links related to the topic, not links that are incidental, e.g. linking to a jargon word in a sentence."
 * Added to WP:LAYOUT: "Please see WP:IG for further information on the use of galleries."


 * Lead section
 * Removed "short, independent" from: "The lead serves ... as a short, independent summary"
 * Added to WP:LEAD: pointer to Naming conventions (geographic names)
 * Added to WP:LEAD: "[Registered users can override this default via:] checkbox on Special:Preferences > Editing called "Enable section editing by right-clicking on section titles" (requires JavaScript)"


 * Linking
 * Significant changes to WP:LINKING
 * Merge into WP:LINKING from WP:BTW: "Wikipedia is based on hypertext, and aims to "build the web" to enable readers to find relevant information on other pages with just a click of the mouse. Therefore in adding or removing links, consider an article's place in the knowledge tree."


 * Manual of Style (capital letters)
 * Added to WP:MOSCAPS: "In mathematics, ideas named after people are almost always capitalised (Hermitian matrix, Lorentz transformation), but a small number of exceptions exists (abelian group)."
 * Added to WP:MOSCAPS: "[Avoid writing in all capitals:] For Latin language quotations and terms, even when lowercase letters are anachronistic. This also applies to small caps; see Manual of Style (text formatting)."


 * Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
 * In WP:MOSNUM, changed "... unless tackling region-specific topics, use international units." to "... apart from US and some UK specific topics, use metric units." and removed "Mentioning the issue on the MOSNUM talk page and on the article's associated Wikiproject might also be a good idea, especially if the problem is not restricted to a specific article."
 * Significant changes to WP:MOSNUM
 * Several changes to WP:MOSNUM
 * New subsections: WP:MOSNUM and WP:MOSNUM. Removed lower section with similar information, WP:MOSNUM.
 * Several changes to WP:MOSNUM


 * Manual of Style (spelling)
 * Removed a number of options from the Canadian list; most of the words removed were the preferred American spellings.
 * Added to WP:SPELLING: "Older sources use many archaic variants (such as shew for show), which are not to be used outside quotations except in special circumstances (for example, quire may be used instead of choir in architectural contexts)."
 * Added to WP:SPELLING: Manual of Style (dates and numbers); "note that American and British dates are written differently"


 * Manual of Style (text formatting)
 * Added to WP:MOSTEXT: "[Use italics for] Feature-length films or documentaries, such as The Terminator or Super Size Me", and "[Use quotation marks for] Short films or documentaries"
 * Added (see WP:SPELLING above): "For better accessibility, Latin language quotations should never be set in all-capitals or small capitals, even when such use might seem anachronistic."


 * Manual of Style (titles)
 * Same change as WP:MOSTEXT


 * Words to avoid
 * Changes in the last paragraph of WP:AVOID
 * Added to WP:AVOID: "Take care if applying this guideline to precise discussions of technical subjects, as many of these words, and their related adjectives are used uncontroversially, and often with a very particular meaning." Also added examples.


 * Avoid peacock terms
 * Added: "[it is] generally [unhelpful to prefix a fact or development with comments like] ... [“interestingly”, “ironically”, “surprisingly”,] "the researchers were shocked to find" or ..."


 * Avoid weasel words
 * Removed: "[Weasel words are] generally considered to be [words or phrases] ..."
 * Added to WP:WEASEL: "Clearly..."
 * Added See also link: Plain English Campaign


 * Citing sources
 * Substantial changes to WP:CITE
 * New section: WP:CITE [now removed]
 * Substantial changes to WP:CITE
 * New subsection: WP:CITE


 * External links
 * Removed from WP:EL: "Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as reviews and interviews."
 * In WP:EL, added: "[There is no blanket ban on linking to these sites as long as the links abide by the guidelines on this page (see Restrictions on linking),] which is rare.", and "These links must also identify the software necessary for readers to see the content."
 * New subsection: WP:EL


 * Layout
 * In WP:LAYOUT, removed "further reading" from: "With some exceptions, any links to other Wikimedia projects appear in further reading or external links sections."


 * Lead section
 * Moved to WP:LEAD: "Accordingly, editors should avoid lengthy paragraphs and over-specific descriptions, especially if they are not central to the article as a whole."
 * Added to WP:LEAD: "If the page is a list, do not introduce the list as "This is a list of X"."


 * Linking
 * Page moved to WP:Linking
 * Added to lead section: "Wikipedia has a hyperlinking feature, an important advantage of an online encyclopedia. It is an important Wikipedia guideline that editors should build the Web by creating articles and adding appropriate links between them, thus increasing the extent and interconnectedness of Wikipedia. Care should nonetheless be taken to avoid overlinking, as described below."
 * Moved up in WP:LINKING: "Unless they are particularly relevant to the topic of the article, [it is generally inappropriate to link:]"
 * Added to WP:LINKING: "(See also: Principle of least astonishment)"


 * Manual of Style (capital letters)
 * Added to lead section: "[Capital letters are sometimes a matter of regional differences;] for example, British writers and editors are more inclined to use them than their North American counterparts."
 * Some additional explanation added to WP:MOSCAPS


 * Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
 * The page is no longer protected, except for the section WP:MOSNUM.
 * In WP:MOSNUM, changed "A slash may be used to indicate regular defined yearly periods that do not coincide with calendar years (the financial year 1993/94, the 1999/2000 snooker season)." to "2005–06 is a two-year range, whereas 2005/06 is a period of twelve months or less such as a sports season or a financial year."
 * Removed: "Do not capitalize century or millennium unless other circumstances require it."
 * Several changes to WP:MOSNUM
 * Several changes to WP:MOSNUM
 * WP:MOSNUM changed to WP:MOSNUM, and minor changes to this section


 * Manual of Style (spelling)
 * Added: "tyre - tire: In American and Canadian English, tire is used to refer to 'to fatigue' and the inflated rim of a wheel. In British and other forms of English, tire means 'to fatigue' and tyre is the inflated rim of a wheel."
 * Added: "advise, devise"


 * Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
 * Moved page to this name


 * Words to avoid
 * Added "surmise" to WP:AVOID
 * WP:AVOID moved up, with some changes
 * In WP:AVOID, changed "Adverbs are rare in encyclopedic writing, because they are too easily used to express a point of view without providing a source for it." to "The use of certain adverbs requires care in encyclopedic writing, as they can imply an opinion or viewpoint without providing a source for it."
 * Added to WP:AVOID: "Solution often is used simply as a buzzword that can be eliminated altogether with no loss of meaning."
 * Added to WP:AVOID: "The Elements of Style has a section on words that are commonly misused"


 * 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!"


 * Accessibility
 * In WP:ACCESS, changed "Screen readers [will stop reading the heading title when they encounter a link ...]" to "Some screen readers ..."
 * New proposal, WP:ACCESS: "Wikipedia articles should be accessible to readers using devices with small screens, or to readers using monitors with a low resolution. The lowest resolution that it is considered possible to support without adversely affecting other users is 800x600; all articles should look acceptable at this resolution without excessive horizontal scrolling. This is sometimes an issue in articles with multiple images on both sides of the screen; although lower resolutions will tend to stretch paragraphs vertically, moving images apart in that direction, be careful not to add images or other floating content on both sides of the screen simultaneously. Large tables and images can also create problems; sometimes horizontal scrolling is unavoidable, but consider restructuring wide tables to extend vertically rather than horizontally."
 * New heading: WP:ACCESS
 * New proposal, WP:ACCESS: "Scrolling and collapsible sections in tables or other block elements can be useful to save space and conceal at first-sight potentially superfluous information. However, such techniques must be used with caution, as this content can become inaccessible in a number of situations. Printers and screen-readers will both output only the content that is immediately visible on the page, and these structures are more likely to exhibit undesirable behavior on certain browsers. As such, these methods should not be used in the article body. This includes reference lists, image galleries, and image captions; they especially should not be used to conceal 'spoiler' information (see Spoiler). Collapsible sections are useful in navboxes and infoboxes and are widely used outside the article namespace; in these instances, care should be taken to ensure that the content will still be acessible on devices which do not support JavaScript and/or CSS."
 * New subsection, WP:ACCESS, containing only a pointer to HTML breaks problem
 * WP:ACCESS was changed substantially.


 * Avoid peacock terms
 * Added awesome, extraordinary
 * Added WP:Wikipuffery essay to the See also links


 * Avoid weasel words
 * Removed from lead section: "The "who?" link is used ..."
 * Added to WP:WEASEL: "It is rumored that...", "There are rumors that...", "Presumably...", "It turns out that..."
 * Removed from WP:WEASEL: "Convoluted syntax. Weasel words require some convoluted syntax to get a point across. "A square has four sides" is a simple sentence; "Squares are widely regarded as having an even number of sides, a number that has been conjectured by experts in the field to be precisely four" wraps the key point in layers of syntactic obfuscation, leaving it to be harvested with difficulty by the reader."
 * Added Avoid speculation to See also links


 * Citing sources
 * Added to WP:CITE: "Since per WP:V each fact presented by an article must be concretely verifiable, at the editor's discretion it is possible and appropriate to include as many proper and correct citations as desired to affirm the statements made. However citation is only required as specified in the following list of circumstances. And whether a citation is added in a required context or at an editor's discretion it must be accurate and should comply with the rules set forth in this guideline."
 * Added to WP:CITE: "For a comparison of footnote references using citation templates with references written freehand, see Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods."
 * Removed: "There are (at least) two families of citation templates. The Citation template is intended to provide citations for many types of sources. The other family has names of the form (for example, Cite book and Cite web). These two families produce different citation styles. For example, the  family separates elements with a full stop (period), while the Citation template separates elements with a comma. Thus, these two families should not be mixed in the same article."
 * The bullet points in WP:CITE were changed substantially.
 * Added to WP:CITE: "Optionally, one may add the name attribute by using  . Thereafter, the same reference may be used multiple times by adding  ."
 * Added to WP:CITE: "For more detailed examples using shortened notes, including the use of links from the short notes to the full references, see Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods."


 * Embedded list
 * Added to lead section: "Embedded lists should be used only when appropriate; sometimes the information in a list is better presented as prose paragraphs."
 * Added to WP:EMBED: "If you find an inappropriate or badly written list, insert a cleanup tag at the top of the article. For example, use the for a list that would be better written as prose paragraphs. Other cleanup tags may be found on the page on Template messages/Cleanup."
 * New subheading: WP:EMBED


 * External links
 * Added to lead section: "[Wikipedia articles may include links to web pages outside Wikipedia,] but must conform to certain formatting restrictions."
 * In WP:EL, changed "Affiliate or tracking links" to "Affiliate, tracking or referral links"
 * In WP:EL, shortened "If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it." to "When in doubt, you may go to the talk page and let another editor decide."
 * Removed "Note that since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links may not alter search engine rankings."


 * How to copy-edit
 * Added to WP:COPYEDIT: "Generally, an article about a certain English-speaking region or place should be written in the form of English used there."


 * Lead section
 * Added to lead section: "and the notability of the article's subject should be established in the first sentence of the lead"
 * The entire page was substantially edited, with material pulled in from previously transcluded pages.


 * Manual of Style
 * Added to lead section: "Another way to access the Manual of Style is through Editor's index to Wikipedia."
 * Added new subsection, WP:MOS: "If a section is covered in a dedicated article, then this should be marked by inserting directly beneath the section heading."
 * Changed WP:MOS to WP:MOS
 * Added to WP:MOS: "[The article "the" is not capitalized] unless it is formally a part of the name of the deity."
 * Added to WP:MOS: "See the Comma article for general information about usage."
 * The Currencies section was moved to Manual of Style (dates and numbers).
 * WP:MOS was substantially rewritten.


 * Manual of Style (capital letters)
 * In WP:MOSCAPS, added link to WP:MSM
 * Added: "Wikipedia does not capitalize the first letter, when, as in these cases, not doing so has become normal English usage. (Beginning article titles lower case requires the lowercase template or equivalent code.)"
 * Changed "If multiple styles have regular and established use in reliable sources, use the orthography preferred by the individual." to "Editors disagree on how often this should be done; some editors would never do it; some would always follow the personal preference of the subject."


 * Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
 * Page is still full-protected.
 * In WP:MOSNUM, added "It was further ratified in two December 2008 RfCs Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Three proposals for change to MOSNUM and Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Date_Linking_RFC"
 * In WP:MOSNUM, added: "The names of currencies, currency subdivisions, coins and banknotes should not be capitalised except where normal capitalisation rules require this (for example, at the start of a sentence)."


 * Manual of Style (links)
 * Page was substantially rewritten.


 * Manual of Style (spelling)
 * Added to WP:SPELLING: "The Columbia University Guide to Standard American English states that "theater" is used except in proper names.", with a footnote: Wilson, Kenneth G. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Columbia University Press. 1996. 435.


 * Manual of Style (trademarks)
 * In WP:TRADEMARK, added another example to avoid: "skate."


 * Words to avoid
 * At WP:EUPHEMISM, added "gave his life" as a phrase to avoid.
 * The WP:TERRORIST subsection was added back to this page.
 * The WP:AVOID subsection was substantially rewritten.


 * Writing better articles
 * The WP:BETTER section was rewritten to conform to WP:Layout.