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

• Wikipedia:Accessibility
  • Added to WP:ACCESS#See also: Wikipedia:Accessibility advocates

• Wikipedia: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.)"

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

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

• Wikipedia:Citing sources
  • New subsection: WP:CITE#Metadata
  • Added to WP:CITE#Citation templates and tools: "See also: Template:Uw-unsourced1 - please cite sources"
  • Added to WP:CITE#How to present citations: [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#See also: Wikipedia:A suggested improvement 0001

• Wikipedia: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#Important points to remember: [This guideline does not apply to inline citations] "or general references ..."
  • Added to WP:EL#What should be linked: "The official site should typically be listed first."
  • In WP:EL#Redirection sites, 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."

• Wikipedia:Layout
  • Reworded WP:LAYOUT#Headings and sections, 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#Standard appendices to WP:LAYOUT#Standard appendices and footers, with substantial changes from the May 31 version throughout

• Wikipedia:Lead section
  • In WP:LEAD#Format of the first sentence, 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#Biographies, added "Main article:[sic] Biographies of living persons"
  • Changed WP:LEAD#Citations substantially from the May 31 version

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
  • Added to WP:MOSNUM#Non-breaking spaces: "Roman numerals at the end of phrases such as World War II or Pope Benedict XVI"
  • Merged WP:MOSNUM#High-precision numbers into WP:MOSNUM#Large numbers, with changes
  • Added three paragraphs to WP:MOSNUM#Units of measurement
  • Added to WP:MOSNUM#Conventions: "The {{nowrap}} template ... can be used"
  • Added to WP:MOSNUM#Quantities of bytes and bits: [The binary prefixes are] "generally" [not to be used except ...]

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting)
  • Merged examples from WP:MOSTEXT#Titles to WP:MOSTITLE

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

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