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curprev 20:5620:56, 28 June 2024‎ Biogeographist talk contribs‎ 229,324 bytes +175‎ →‎Section headings: added sentence to explanatory footnote about checking redirects; also changed "is better" to "may be better" since this decision requires some judgment based on the content—for example, longstanding old section titles could have many off-wiki inlinks that would also justify an anchor to the old section title
curprev 05:0305:03, 28 June 2024‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 229,149 bytes 0‎ →‎Section headings: Fix namespace param in advanced search link.
curprev 04:0304:03, 28 June 2024‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 229,149 bytes +7‎ →‎Section headings: Update advanced search link in expl. note to search all namespaces; see Talk.
curprev 01:3701:37, 28 June 2024‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 229,142 bytes 0‎ →‎Section headings: Update advanced search link in "many links" explanatory note to make it more robust, so it also finds {{section link}} (and {{slink}}), {{further}} links, {{main}} links, and so on.

curprev 22:2122:21, 26 June 2024‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 229,142 bytes +572‎ →‎Section headings: Add expl. note "many links" with advice on how to determine whether there are many inlinks to the old section title or not, and where they are located.

curprev 19:0319:03, 25 June 2024‎ Shonebrooks talk contribs‎ 228,570 bytes +246‎ →‎Original wording: I added a suggested solution for an edge case where using the SIC template's normal syntax does not otherwise produce the desired outcome.

curprev 06:2406:24, 18 June 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 228,324 bytes −192‎ →‎Other non-English concerns: Repair that dead – that clearly seems to be the intended section, and it does refer to linear and interlinear glosses
curprev 04:0704:07, 18 June 2024‎ Nurg talk contribs‎ 228,516 bytes +203‎ →‎Other non-English concerns: flag dead section link
curprev 00:1700:17, 18 June 2024‎ ZW1996 talk contribs‎ 228,313 bytes +4‎ No edit summary

curprev 23:2523:25, 14 June 2024‎ Trovatore talk contribs‎ 228,309 bytes +1‎ →‎Plurals: according to Wiktionary, it would indeed be excursī used as a participle, but as a noun it's fourth declension and has plural excursūs. Since a lot of people are familiar with Latin plurals ending in i but not so many with the fourth declension, it might be better to pick a different example
curprev 22:0822:08, 14 June 2024‎ JMF talk contribs‎ 228,308 bytes 0‎ Undid revision 1229104767 by DogWithHerpes (talk) rv good faith but that is a deliberate error. Tag: Undo
curprev 22:0422:04, 14 June 2024‎ DogWithHerpes talk contribs‎ 228,308 bytes 0‎ →‎Plurals: The Latin masculine plural ending is "-ī", not "-us" Tag: Reverted

curprev 08:0208:02, 11 June 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 228,308 bytes −18‎ Undid revision 1228442749 by Leomos23 (talk) – needlessly verbose Tag: Undo
curprev 07:3507:35, 11 June 2024‎ Leomos23 talk contribs‎ 228,326 bytes +18‎ →‎Strong national ties to a topic Tag: Reverted

curprev 15:5915:59, 10 June 2024‎ Reywas92 talk contribs‎ 228,308 bytes +26‎ →‎Singular nouns: add a different example type Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 05:2105:21, 6 June 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 228,282 bytes −9‎ →‎Terms with common usage in English

curprev 16:2416:24, 2 June 2024‎ GSK talk contribs‎ 228,291 bytes +10‎ →‎Verb tense: new shortcut
curprev 05:0005:00, 2 June 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 228,281 bytes −1‎ →‎Scrolling lists and collapsible content
curprev 04:5904:59, 2 June 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 228,282 bytes +138‎ →‎Scrolling lists and collapsible content: ce!

curprev 23:0023:00, 1 June 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 228,144 bytes +115‎ →‎Foreign terms: boldly switching term from "foreign" to "non-English" per talk page discussions where it seemed there were no real objections
curprev 22:2222:22, 1 June 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 228,029 bytes +7‎ →‎Foreign terms: +shortcut

curprev 15:1115:11, 29 May 2024‎ Wik6516 talk contribs‎ 227,555 bytes −5‎ Minor rewording Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 16:0116:01, 25 May 2024‎ Schierbecker talk contribs‎ 227,560 bytes 0‎ →‎Retaining existing styles: -ly adjective do not need hyphens

curprev 15:5115:51, 22 May 2024‎ Macrakis talk contribs‎ 227,560 bytes −24‎ mention Arabic `ayn as well as Hebrew `ayin Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
curprev 12:4212:42, 22 May 2024‎ Grutness talk contribs‎ 227,584 bytes +67‎ →‎Section organization: no one objected, and this brings this in line with the MoS
curprev 04:3504:35, 22 May 2024‎ Nikkimaria talk contribs‎ 227,517 bytes −19‎ defer to link

curprev 21:2821:28, 19 May 2024‎ BhamBoi talk contribs‎ m 227,437 bytes +14‎ →‎Ampersand: repipe link #MiniEdit

curprev 04:5304:53, 17 May 2024‎ Aitraintheeditorandgamer talk contribs‎ 227,423 bytes −16‎ →‎Color coding: Maroon doesn't need a disambiguation qualifier Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 20:1120:11, 16 May 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 227,439 bytes −42‎ Undid revision 1224187562 by CyberTheTiger (talk) – that's a country name, not title case Tag: Undo
curprev 19:4819:48, 16 May 2024‎ CyberTheTiger talk contribs‎ 227,481 bytes +42‎ →‎Article titles Tag: Reverted
curprev 05:3405:34, 16 May 2024‎ Altenmann talk contribs‎ 227,439 bytes −36‎ Reverted 1 edit by SchreiberBike (talk): This is fake link; please find me reliable source which descrives "generic she" Tags: Twinkle Undo
curprev 00:3100:31, 16 May 2024‎ SchreiberBike talk contribs‎ 227,475 bytes +36‎ Undid revision 1224041526 by Altenmann (talk) The generic she is described at that link. Tags: Undo Reverted

curprev 22:0322:03, 15 May 2024‎ Altenmann talk contribs‎ 227,439 bytes −36‎ →‎Gender-neutral language: no such thing Tag: Reverted

curprev 18:5618:56, 12 May 2024‎ DASL51984 talk contribs‎ 227,475 bytes +8‎ →‎Ligatures

curprev 04:0304:03, 5 May 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 227,467 bytes −18‎ Reverting edit(s) by Leomos23 (talk) to rev. 1220060710 by MapReader: Reverting good faith edits: that article has many problems but suffice it to say "Commonwealth English" is a better descriptor in this context (UV 0.1.5) Tags: Ultraviolet Undo
curprev 03:1603:16, 5 May 2024‎ Leomos23 talk contribs‎ 227,485 bytes +18‎ →‎Strong national ties to a topic Tag: Reverted

curprev 16:0316:03, 21 April 2024‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 227,467 bytes −18‎ →‎Punctuation inside or outside: Less clunky Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 07:2307:23, 21 April 2024‎ GhostInTheMachine talk contribs‎ 227,485 bytes −4‎ →‎Punctuation inside or outside: do not start a sentence with But
curprev 07:1607:16, 21 April 2024‎ TARDIS Builder talk contribs‎ m 227,489 bytes +3‎ →‎Punctuation inside or outside: "i.e." should not begin a senence

curprev 01:3801:38, 18 April 2024‎ Beland talk contribs‎ 227,486 bytes +95‎ →‎Keep markup simple: {{further|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Best practice: wiki markup and CSS classes}} (which expands on this topic)

curprev 18:2318:23, 16 April 2024‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 227,391 bytes +1‎ →‎Ellipses: Nevertheless per LQ this is a sentence fragment and a case where a period outside the quote is necessary to separate the two quotation marks, one ending the fragment and the other continuing the quote. Or, alternatively, the example should run the quotes together deleting the two middle quotation marks and containing the ellipsis within the quote, joining the first fragment to the second sentence. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 18:1718:17, 16 April 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 227,390 bytes −109‎ Undid revision 1219257565 by Markworthen (talk) Tag: Undo
curprev 17:1917:19, 16 April 2024‎ Markworthen talk contribs‎ 227,499 bytes +109‎ →‎Ellipses: See Talk page: "Slight edit made in MOS:ELLIPSES section" Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 13:1513:15, 14 April 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 227,390 bytes −6‎ →‎Instructional and presumptuous language: Why the break here?
curprev 12:4312:43, 14 April 2024‎ Nederlandse Leeuw talk contribs‎ 227,396 bytes +401‎ →‎Instructional and presumptuous language: There are plenty of indirect instructional phrases which do not use the imperative, but still tell the reader what to do. I'll add an example I just corrected. I've seen this dozens of times on enwiki.

curprev 06:5606:56, 13 April 2024‎ Queen of Hearts talk contribs‎ 226,995 bytes +37‎ Reverted 1 edit by Queen of Hearts (talk): Ugh, sorry Tags: Twinkle Undo
curprev 06:5506:55, 13 April 2024‎ Queen of Hearts talk contribs‎ 226,958 bytes −37‎ Reverting edit(s) by Tonymetz (talk) to rev. 1218328242 by Alisperic: non-constructive (RW 16.1) Tags: RW Undo Reverted

curprev 17:4317:43, 12 April 2024‎ Tonymetz talk contribs‎ m 226,995 bytes +37‎ fixed-width examples Tag: Reverted

curprev 01:5901:59, 11 April 2024‎ Alisperic talk contribs‎ m 226,958 bytes −9‎ →‎Abbreviations: correct xt usage
curprev 01:2801:28, 11 April 2024‎ Alisperic talk contribs‎ 226,967 bytes −10‎ →‎Symbols: copyedit

curprev 19:3719:37, 9 April 2024‎ Tonymetz talk contribs‎ m 226,977 bytes −62‎ Undid revision 1218108847 by Tonymetz (talk) Tag: Undo
curprev 19:3719:37, 9 April 2024‎ Tonymetz talk contribs‎ m 227,039 bytes +62‎ reduce whitespace Tag: Reverted

curprev 22:4722:47, 8 April 2024‎ Tonymetz talk contribs‎ m 226,977 bytes +2‎ →‎Arrows & Symbols
curprev 22:4622:46, 8 April 2024‎ Tonymetz talk contribs‎ 226,975 bytes +566‎ + Arrows & Symbols see Talk discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Guidance_on_--%3E_vs_%E2%86%92_(right_arrow)

curprev 17:0417:04, 31 March 2024‎ CrafterNova talk contribs‎ 226,409 bytes −4‎ →‎Seasons: "they" is quite an ambiguous word here, since it is also used as a pronoun Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 05:2205:22, 28 March 2024‎ HypeBoy talk contribs‎ 226,413 bytes +1‎ →‎Verb tense: Punctuation. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 02:0602:06, 25 March 2024‎ Fgnievinski talk contribs‎ 226,412 bytes +96‎ →‎Words as words: wl WP:WORDISSUBJECT

curprev 06:5206:52, 24 March 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ m 226,316 bytes +2‎ →‎Quotation marks and internal links: Add periods

curprev 16:1516:15, 23 March 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 226,314 bytes +3‎ Undid revision 1215175687 by Musiconeologist (talk) – in this case I think that code examples are more helpful than remarks about quote colour (assuming we need to add anything here) Tag: Undo
curprev 16:0016:00, 23 March 2024‎ Musiconeologist talk contribs‎ 226,311 bytes −3‎ →‎Punctuation: Improve explanatory note. Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
curprev 14:1514:15, 23 March 2024‎ Musiconeologist talk contribs‎ 226,314 bytes +93‎ →‎Quotation marks and internal links: Added code to show the difference.
curprev 12:5112:51, 23 March 2024‎ Musiconeologist talk contribs‎ 226,221 bytes +13‎ →‎Punctuation: Say what CS1 and CS2 are (I had to check when reading). Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit

curprev 19:2219:22, 22 March 2024‎ W.andrea talk contribs‎ m 226,208 bytes +4‎ →‎Geographical items: add link
curprev 19:2119:21, 22 March 2024‎ W.andrea talk contribs‎ 226,204 bytes +20‎ →‎Geographical items: Improve language tagging.

curprev 06:0606:06, 21 March 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 226,184 bytes −4‎ Actually this cross-referenced WP:AT section is more pertinent to this specific MoS section; the other one is more relevant to MOS:STYLEVAR but is already listed in the WP:VARS disambiguation page already linked there.
curprev 06:0006:00, 21 March 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 226,188 bytes +41‎ →‎Retaining the existing variety: crossref

curprev 07:2307:23, 13 March 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 226,147 bytes −29‎ Reverted good faith edits by 2003 LN6 (talk): Possessives aren't contractions (there is nothing omitted) Tags: Twinkle Undo
curprev 06:0006:00, 13 March 2024‎ 2003 LN6 talk contribs‎ m 226,176 bytes −1‎ grammar Tag: Reverted
curprev 05:5905:59, 13 March 2024‎ 2003 LN6 talk contribs‎ 226,177 bytes +30‎ per MOS:N'T Tag: Reverted

curprev 08:3808:38, 7 March 2024‎ Dekimasu talk contribs‎ m 226,137 bytes +1‎ →‎Indentation: rm contraction

curprev 17:0717:07, 3 March 2024‎ JayBeeEll talk contribs‎ 226,154 bytes −11‎ Undid revision 1211565520 by Thinker78 (talk) the edited version seems less grammatical and much less clear to me Tag: Undo
curprev 06:1806:18, 3 March 2024‎ Thinker78 talk contribs‎ 226,165 bytes +11‎ →‎Indentation: copyedited sentence for more clarity Tag: Reverted
curprev 00:1200:12, 3 March 2024‎ Thinker78 talk contribs‎ 226,154 bytes +1‎ →‎Terminal punctuation: moved sentence to its own bullet point

curprev 23:4723:47, 2 March 2024‎ Candido talk contribs‎ m 226,153 bytes +1‎ →‎Punctuation inside or outside: corrected typo

curprev 13:4613:46, 25 February 2024‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 226,152 bytes −12‎ →‎Titles of people: Clarity, clearer English Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 22:0522:05, 19 February 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 225,780 bytes −34‎ Reverting edit(s) by GnocchiFan (talk) to rev. 1205882931 by Skynxnex: Reverting good faith edits: not an initialism, requires additional deliberation (UV 0.1.5) Tags: Ultraviolet Undo
curprev 21:4021:40, 19 February 2024‎ GnocchiFan talk contribs‎ 225,814 bytes +34‎ →‎US and U.S.: This seems to make sense as we are discouraging the USA initialism, but if this is controversial please undo my edit. Tag: Reverted

curprev 17:3617:36, 10 February 2024‎ Skynxnex talk contribs‎ 225,780 bytes −88‎ Undid revision 1205879976 by Mussharraf Hossen Shoikot (talk): this isn't an article. Search in the talk page page and read WP:CITEFOOT and its talk page, as needed. Ask on talk page before re-adding tag if still desired Tag: Undo
curprev 17:2617:26, 10 February 2024‎ Mussharraf Hossen Shoikot talk contribs‎ 225,868 bytes +88‎ No edit summary Tag: Reverted

curprev 21:0221:02, 5 February 2024‎ Mathnerd314159 talk contribs‎ 225,780 bytes −4‎ →‎Scrolling lists and collapsible content: bold -> italic. the bold is confusing, I keep thinking it's a new header

curprev 03:2303:23, 3 February 2024‎ SchreiberBike talk contribs‎ 225,784 bytes −1‎ Undid revision 1202596683 by Antrotherkus (talk) That is correct. See Grammatical gender. Tag: Undo
curprev 03:1903:19, 3 February 2024‎ Antrotherkus talk contribs‎ m 225,785 bytes +1‎ →‎Gender-neutral language Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 15:4515:45, 31 January 2024‎ SchreiberBike talk contribs‎ 225,784 bytes +1‎ I think that ! was intended
curprev 06:0406:04, 31 January 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 225,783 bytes +29‎ Reverting edit(s) by Tony1 (talk) to rev. 1201177102 by SMcCandlish: Reverting good faith edits: a reason was given in the edit summary, unless I'm missing something (UV 0.1.5) Tags: Ultraviolet Undo
curprev 05:3505:35, 31 January 2024‎ Tony1 talk contribs‎ 225,754 bytes −29‎ Restored revision 1200849867 by Tony1 (talk): No reason given for revert. Tags: Twinkle Undo Reverted
curprev 02:4102:41, 31 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 225,783 bytes +29‎ →‎Commas: Replace example with one that was not subject to recent dispute; see talk page note about not "rubbing people's noses in it" after an RM or similar discussion. Tag: Reverted

curprev 23:4623:46, 30 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 225,754 bytes +12‎ There's actually no hurry to implement something like this especially while discussion is ongoing. Better to get it right than rush it. Tags: Manual revert Reverted
curprev 19:1019:10, 30 January 2024‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 225,742 bytes −12‎ Undid revision 1200849867 by Tony1 ( talk) per talk page Tags: Undo Reverted
curprev 10:5310:53, 30 January 2024‎ Tony1 talk contribs‎ 225,754 bytes +12‎ Restored revision 1199311170 by BarrelProof (talk): Sorry to revert, but I feel that was premature. Please see talkpage. Tags: Twinkle Undo Reverted

curprev 20:4720:47, 29 January 2024‎ Jmchutchinson talk contribs‎ 225,742 bytes −12‎ →‎Colons: initial capital of a complete sentence following a colon no longer mandatory: see discussion on talk page "Surely not American-style capitalisation after a colon in British-English articles?" Tag: Reverted

curprev 19:1019:10, 26 January 2024‎ BarrelProof talk contribs‎ 225,754 bytes +98‎ →‎Commas: More typical verb tense if this is a real-life example
curprev 15:1115:11, 26 January 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 225,656 bytes −4‎ Undid revision 1199229795 by MapReader (talk) – it's just an example, no complicated gendering required Tag: Undo
curprev 14:3014:30, 26 January 2024‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 225,660 bytes +4‎ →‎Commas Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 06:1406:14, 26 January 2024‎ BarrelProof talk contribs‎ 225,656 bytes +2‎ →‎Commas: Replacing extremely unlikely example with one that's believable. Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a much more populous and notable place that is much easier to get to to from North Carolina than Chattanooga, Oklahoma.

curprev 06:1806:18, 25 January 2024‎ HypeBoy talk contribs‎ 225,654 bytes +1‎ →‎Verb tense: Punctuation. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 17:5617:56, 23 January 2024‎ InfiniteNexus talk contribs‎ 225,653 bytes +558‎ Undid revision 1198268103 by The ed17 (talk) That doesn't invalidate their historical decisions Tag: Undo
curprev 17:2617:26, 23 January 2024‎ The ed17 talk contribs‎ 225,095 bytes −558‎ →‎Retaining existing styles: proposing to remove this nearly 20-year-old quote -- ArbCom no longer traffics in content decisions Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor
curprev 02:3802:38, 23 January 2024‎ Bkonrad talk contribs‎ m 225,653 bytes +1,556‎ Reverted edit by Blanks McArticles (talk) to last version by Kwamikagami Tag: Rollback
curprev 02:2902:29, 23 January 2024‎ Blanks McArticles talk contribs‎ 224,097 bytes −1,556‎ No edit summary Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 21:2621:26, 21 January 2024‎ Kwamikagami talk contribs‎ 225,653 bytes +13‎ →‎Apostrophes: not all consonants using this character are technically ejective

curprev 17:3017:30, 18 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ m 225,640 bytes +93‎ HTML comment note.
curprev 17:2917:29, 18 January 2024‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 225,547 bytes +207‎ →‎Hyphens: Replace poor example; "Hawaiian Native" in reference to the human ethnicity/culture is today considered a proper-noun phrase and capitalized (it's one of the terms that group prefers). That's not, of course, the case with plant and animal species (and the term comes up a lot with regard to invasive-species debates). Fix broken cross-ref. Tweak word order to agree with our own article and the sourcing that dominates in it. Fix abuse of list markup for visual indentation

curprev 11:3511:35, 13 January 2024‎ DrKay talk contribs‎ 225,340 bytes −21‎ →‎Colons
curprev 11:0811:08, 13 January 2024‎ Jmchutchinson talk contribs‎ 225,361 bytes +20‎ →‎Colons: See talk page: American-style punctuation not to be imposed in Br-English articles

curprev 16:4016:40, 12 January 2024‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 225,341 bytes −5‎ Undid revision 1195145856 by Gawaon (talk) i think the hanging adjective is fine here because the impersonal pronoun here is just too awkward Tag: Undo
curprev 14:2814:28, 12 January 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 225,346 bytes +5‎ →‎Double or single: Grammar Tag: Reverted
curprev 14:2814:28, 12 January 2024‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 225,341 bytes −4‎ →‎Double or single: Note cleanup: No need to have a list if it has just one item
curprev 02:0902:09, 12 January 2024‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 225,345 bytes −154‎ →‎Double or single: Dropped cryptic and irrelevant comment in note 'm' about how browsers handle searches with quote marks. It has morphed since, but if you go back to this edit from Feb. 2015, it seems to have had something to do with some feature that only was relevant to the IE browser even at that time; it's safe to say this is just permacruft and long since lost any relevance. Would encourage more vetting of Note 'm' for possible further pruning.

curprev 19:4219:42, 1 January 2024‎ JediMasterMacaroni talk contribs‎ 225,182 bytes −7‎ →‎Quotation marks and internal links
curprev 14:1314:13, 1 January 2024‎ SchreiberBike talk contribs‎ 225,189 bytes −36‎ Undid revision 1192942824 by Yedaman54 (talk) This list is already too long. Additional items should not be added without consensus. Tag: Undo
curprev 05:2605:26, 1 January 2024‎ Yedaman54 talk contribs‎ 225,225 bytes +36‎ →‎Strong national ties to a topic Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 19:5819:58, 24 December 2023‎ Queen of Hearts talk contribs‎ 225,189 bytes +134‎ →‎Original wording: fix anchors; {{Redirect}} Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 21:5421:54, 19 December 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 225,055 bytes +209‎ →‎Brackets and parentheses: hatnote

curprev 12:1612:16, 18 December 2023‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 224,846 bytes 0‎ →‎Retaining existing styles: Wikilink the whole phrase "opportunities for commonality", considering that it's the linked section title anyway

curprev 06:1706:17, 13 December 2023‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 224,846 bytes +124‎ →‎Retaining existing styles: Important provision missed from the copyover Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 06:1306:13, 13 December 2023‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 224,722 bytes 0‎ →‎Retaining existing styles: Compound adjective Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 05:5905:59, 13 December 2023‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 224,722 bytes +12‎ Undid revision 1189623091 by Remsense (talk) Incorrect use of dialect Tag: Undo
curprev 00:3200:32, 13 December 2023‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 224,710 bytes −12‎ Undid revision 1189579607 by Jc3s5h (talk) not all articles are written in a "national standard" per se—see Oxford spelling Tags: Undo Reverted

curprev 12:1012:10, 9 December 2023‎ Belbury talk contribs‎ 223,677 bytes −20‎ →‎Punctuation before quotations: use a multi-sentence example, to illustrate the setup

curprev 15:3415:34, 4 December 2023‎ Swpb talk contribs‎ 223,697 bytes +15‎ →‎Section headings: "Headings should...not wrap headings"

curprev 00:5800:58, 2 December 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,682 bytes +4‎ →‎Hyphens: Clarify. Someone just tried to wikilawyer that this means "capitalize after a hyphen any time the entire string is a proper name" despite this being really obviously not the meaning here. Also fix another glitch: titles are not always given in title case. Rm. unneeded blather indicating that an obvious example is an example. Tlx to link to the template. MOS:SINGLE for glosses.

curprev 11:5311:53, 30 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,678 bytes +30‎ →‎Punctuating a sentence (em or en dashes): This is actually the most frequent markup used for this.

curprev 00:5700:57, 27 November 2023‎ HTGS talk contribs‎ 223,648 bytes −333‎ Remove bullet from CURLY footnote rationale (that is: unusual search behavior of Internet Explorer) per talk Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 20:0720:07, 25 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,981 bytes +98‎ →‎Common usage in English: ditto
curprev 20:0720:07, 25 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,883 bytes +101‎ →‎No common usage in English: Ditto
curprev 20:0520:05, 25 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,782 bytes +4‎ →‎No common usage in English: Try to resolve alleged confusion reported on talk page.

curprev 07:0207:02, 24 November 2023‎ J947 talk contribs‎ m 223,778 bytes +1‎ →‎Instead of a hyphen, use an en dash when applying a prefix or suffix to a compound that itself includes a space, dash or hyphen: ce

curprev 22:0822:08, 19 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,777 bytes +114‎ →‎Foreign-language quotations: consistent advice on handling foreign text
curprev 21:4621:46, 19 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,663 bytes −50‎ →‎Foreign terms: cleanup confusing hatnote disguishing WP:-namespace links as if they are mainspace articles

curprev 21:0621:06, 17 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,713 bytes −8‎ →‎Animals, plants, and other organisms: article moved

curprev 17:3517:35, 10 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,721 bytes −382‎ →‎Invisible comments: I see what the intent was here, but this really doesn't have much to do with our style manual. That's a use of HTML commenting in content disputes, and the proper thing to do in such cases is actually to remove the disputed material (or tag it as disputed), copy-paste it into a block on the talk page, and discuss it there, not leave it as a big chunk of commented-out material cluttering the article code. Tag: Manual revert
curprev 13:5713:57, 10 November 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 224,103 bytes +382‎ →‎Invisible comments: WP:BOLD, revert if inappropriate. Invisible comments are sometimes used to "comment out" text which is considered not to belong in an article, but might be relevant to editors. (+more; see text) Tag: Reverted

curprev 00:5700:57, 7 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,384 bytes +1,061‎ It's not about the source code, it's about what shows up as the link target when someone hovers over the link. If your argument carried any weight, then the vast majority of our links in pages like this would be shortcut, not links to the proper name of the material, but the opposite is the case. Bots and other tools can fix links that have gone invalid, and few of these targets ever change. Tag: Manual revert

curprev 22:5622:56, 6 November 2023‎ InfiniteNexus talk contribs‎ 222,323 bytes −1,061‎ Undid revision 1183803616 by SMcCandlish (talk) There is no harm in using these redirects, no inexperienced user is going to look at the page's source code and be "confused". If some information is moved from one section to another, it would be much easier to retarget the shortcut than manually fix broken section links. Tags: Undo Reverted
curprev 16:1816:18, 6 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 223,384 bytes +1,061‎ Link cleanup. In particular, shortcuts are for editorial convenience on talk pages and in the URL bar; they are not useful for trying to impart important information to often new users, who may be confused as to where the link is trying to send them. Tag: Reverted
curprev 15:5715:57, 6 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 222,323 bytes +4‎ re-separate unrelated provisions; fix markup that confuses our syntax highlighter; clean up headings
curprev 05:3805:38, 6 November 2023‎ InfiniteNexus talk contribs‎ 222,319 bytes +696‎ →‎Punctuation: adding in new consensus per Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#RfC on capitalization after a colon or dash

curprev 17:5917:59, 5 November 2023‎ Gawaon talk contribs‎ 221,623 bytes 0‎ →‎Quotation characters: Write "double prime" without hyphen, as in the article Prime (symbol)

curprev 19:1419:14, 1 November 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 221,623 bytes +58‎ More to the point, the instinct to add this cross-reference here was a good one.
curprev 17:1617:16, 1 November 2023‎ JMF talk contribs‎ 221,565 bytes +107‎ →‎Quotations: added "As explained in more detail at MOS:NOITALQUOTE, it is normally incorrect to put quotations in italics."

curprev 09:3809:38, 31 October 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 221,458 bytes −2‎ MOS:CURLY
curprev 06:2906:29, 31 October 2023‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 221,460 bytes −19‎ →‎Quotations: ‘Generally recommended’ is clunky and unclear; it appears this is what it is trying to say Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 16:1516:15, 30 October 2023‎ HouseBlaster talk contribs‎ 221,479 bytes −2‎ →‎Quotations: ce

curprev 03:3703:37, 29 October 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ 221,481 bytes +17‎ This should be sufficent to resolve the clarification request.
curprev 00:5200:52, 29 October 2023‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 221,464 bytes +24‎ →‎Quotation characters: [Factotum]
curprev 00:5000:50, 29 October 2023‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 221,440 bytes +3‎ →‎Quotation characters: better
curprev 00:4800:48, 29 October 2023‎ Remsense talk contribs‎ 221,437 bytes +10‎ →‎Quotation characters: just a splash of extra clarity [Factotum]

curprev 01:1701:17, 28 October 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ m 221,427 bytes −124‎ Rm. HTML comment that has been obviated by providing the sort of example mentioned in it.

curprev 09:4609:46, 26 October 2023‎ MinorEnglishMajor talk contribs‎ 221,511 bytes +1‎ →‎Controlling line breaks: Maintained consistency with example above by adding a comma Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

curprev 07:4907:49, 21 October 2023‎ Randy Kryn talk contribs‎ 221,510 bytes −9‎ reverted my last edit (already exists) Tag: Manual revert
curprev 07:4807:48, 21 October 2023‎ Randy Kryn talk contribs‎ 221,519 bytes +9‎ added 'you' to MOS:OUR Tag: Reverted

curprev 07:1807:18, 17 October 2023‎ RadioactiveBoulevardier talk contribs‎ m 221,510 bytes +5‎ Undid revision 1180535146 by RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk): wrong place Tag: Undo
curprev 07:1707:17, 17 October 2023‎ RadioactiveBoulevardier talk contribs‎ m 221,505 bytes −5‎ →‎Hyphens Tag: Reverted

curprev 17:5017:50, 10 October 2023‎ SMcCandlish talk contribs‎ m 221,510 bytes +1‎ If you're going to move the . then don't leave a fragment behind. But moving that . was not actually needed.
curprev 13:3813:38, 10 October 2023‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 221,509 bytes +5‎ →‎Colons: Missing word Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 04:4904:49, 10 October 2023‎ Folly Mox talk contribs‎ 221,504 bytes 0‎ →‎Colons: fmt Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

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curprev 19:5219:52, 5 October 2023‎ MapReader talk contribs‎ 220,954 bytes −10‎ →‎Do not invent: I can’t see when devising a new abbreviation is ever likely to be acceptable, and the guideline only says ‘avoid’ in any case. Hence ‘generally’ is entirely superflous Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 02:5702:57, 5 October 2023‎ Rhain talk contribs‎ 220,964 bytes +22‎ →‎Section headings: + specific anchor

curprev 20:5620:56, 3 October 2023‎ Summer9778 talk contribs‎ 220,942 bytes +43‎ →‎Strong national ties to a topic: added another example Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 13:0313:03, 2 October 2023‎ Argenti Aertheri talk contribs‎ 220,899 bytes 0‎ →‎Currencies: "in United States dollars, euros, or pounds sterling...($, £, €)" => ($, €, £) to match text

curprev 15:3715:37, 1 October 2023‎ Moxy talk contribs‎ 220,899 bytes +43‎ →‎Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines Tag: Disambiguation links added

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