Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Manual of Style/Noticeboard

This noticeboard is for the notification of changes and proposals concerning Manual of Style pages.
 * Proposed changes to the status of pages:''' merging/splitting; promotion to / removal of MoS/guideline status; deletion.
 * The notification of issues between pages:''' duplication/overlap; contradiction/disharmony
 * The identification of issues within a page: the need for copy-editing; the need for structural renovation
 * The notification of substantive changes within a page:'''

Notification 1

 * Style guide(s) concerned: WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSLINK
 * Action proposed: Merge CONTEXT into MOSLINK.
 * Brief reasons for proposal (link to any relevant discussions, if helpful): They overlap substantially and deserve to be rationalised; merging them would do a favour to our readers, so they can find everything they need about linking in the one guide. Here, the merging of the whole of CONTEXT has support, and needs to be thought through and discussed in a more centralised place.
 * Signature: Tony   (talk)  14:52, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Notification 2

 * Style guide(s) concerned: WP:EMBED and WP:MOSBOLD
 * Action proposed: MOSBOLD has already been proposed for a merge; that would solve this.
 * Brief reasons for proposal (link to any relevant discussions, if helpful): MOSBOLD says that there are very few good reasons for bolding below the lead section, which we all agree with, but EMBED shows the initial terms in the list all bolded (and linked!) I see this pretty often, perhaps because EMBED is one of the WIAGA criteria, perhaps because it just seems right to a lot of people.  I'm concerned that if we support the current wording in MOSBOLD, which suggests you can't use any bolding in a list unless it's a "definition list", and if people comply with that, then they'll just do something worse to emphasize the items in a list if they think emphasis is needed, such as turning it into (shudder) a glossary, or giving each item its own subsection heading.  Bottom line: bolding the first word or few words in embedded lists is pretty common, not just for "definition lists", but in any list where the rest of the text supports or describes the concepts listed; even if we wanted to, I don't think we could successfully squash the practice.   See for instance Robot.
 * Signature: Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 21:10, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Notification 3

 * Style guide(s) concerned: Manual of Style (glossaries) (proposal), prepared by User:SMcCandlish
 * Action proposed: Promotion to MoS page. Scrutiny and feedback required. Issue of whether it can be integrated into one or more other MoS or styleguide pages.
 * Brief reasons for proposal (link to any relevant discussions, if helpful):
 * Link to any relevant discussion: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Manual_of_Style
 * Signature: Tony   (talk)  02:52, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

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