User:Miaumee

See User:Miaumee for a short description.

Must-read

• Manual of Style

Writing guideline

Lead

• Title as unlinked, bolded subject of first sentence (e.g., "In geometry, an angle is an opening... ")

Headings

• Avoid special symbols and links
• Ideally 10- words
• Leave a comment if linked to the section
• Changing heading requires fixing the backlinks

Paragraphs

• Simplify words whenever possible
• No contraction (e.g., don't, can't)
• No inline latin abbreviation (e.g., i.e., n.b.)
• No "you" or "I"
• Use "we" to refer to everyone only ("To solve this equation, we need to find the value of A.")
• No unnecessarily complex sentences
• Avoid slash (/) in general (and/or)
• Avoid question mark (?) and exclamation mark(!) in general
• For emphasis, use italic only (not capitalization)
• Italic when referring to single terms (deuce means "two")
• Avoid relative time expressions (e.g., recently, to date)
• Avoid adjective relative to subjective experience (e.g., big, small, tiny)

Dashes

• En-dash (–) for ranges (e.g. A–Z, 1999–2003)
• No space around em-dash (—)

Lists

• Capitalize each entry (even for sentence fragments)
• Sentences end with period. Fragments do not (and should not)\

Links

• Only wikilink if contribute to better understanding of the article
• Mostly nouns (i.e., not verb or adjective)
• Wikilink first occurrence of the word only

Post-article

• Related pages >
• For large lists, group similar items under headings

Useful templates

Top of the page

• "dablink" — for general disclamer