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and other rules that institutionalise or tolerate too many competing styles and formats. Knowledge ought to determine what's right for it and its readers, and try not to borrow styles from various different sources just because they exist. We need to adopt a single überstyle that embrace greater
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Aligning dates, even by script, is donkey work. What I find infinitely more enjoyable and rewarding is the writing of the script which I and others can use, but I cannot develop without being the prime user. Therefore, I welcome comments, criticism and bug reports that all contribute to the
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Although the requirement of minimal change in direct quotations is strict, a few purely typographical elements of quoted text should be conformed to English Knowledge's conventions without comment. These include the following:
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and dmy, and have chosen to first attack dmy articles for reasons of productivity, I would be happy to apply my work to chasing US spelling and mdy dates should WP decide that's the way it has to be.
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When integrating the quotation into the grammar of a larger sentence, downcase the first letter of a quotation that is in upper case purely because it starts a sentence in the source (
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is now independent of any British English templating. Its own categorisation also independent of British (or indeed any other) English variant categorisation.
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versions of the above, and the results obtained from the production version may vary. I also frequently make manual tweaks in the course of my script runs.
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Life would be a lot simpler with monoformats because we wouldn't have to do this manually – bots could be let loose to work on the 'pedia.
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It's only a digression. I know WP is editor-driven and readers take second place; format unification isn't going to happen any time soon.
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a tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code (used by
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But generally preserve bold and italic face, and the variety of English.
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Use the style chosen for the article: unspaced em dash or spaced en dash.
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mostly performs maintenance and style edits in mainspace. I follow only
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Remove spaces before punctuation such as periods, colons, and %.
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I am responsible for writing and maintaining the following scripts:
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The various scripts work mainly on applying various provisions of
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improvement of the script and therefore the 'pedia as a whole.
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It turned out to be true that "a penny saved is a penny earned"
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Most of the work of this account is done by a combination of
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Knowledge:Naming conventions (use English)/Diacritics RfC
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markups of chinese pronunciations in two different fonts
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Set apostrophes and quotation marks straight, not curly.
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Panorama of Snoopy mural at rue Henri Page, 75013 Paris
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Strange though it may seem, I actually quite dislike
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Queen's Pier
Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier
Ao Man-long
Shaoguan incident
July 2009 Ürümqi riots
Question Time British National Party controversy
Akmal Shaikh
2010 Nobel Peace Prize
Danny Williams (politician)
Amina Bokhary controversy
Linn Isobarik
Quad Electrostatic Loudspeaker
Rega Planar 3
JBL Paragon
Invader (artist)
Olympus scandal
Demerara rebellion of 1823
Yamaha NS-10
LS3/5A
Naim NAIT
Knife attack on Kevin Lau
Roksan Xerxes
Kacey Wong
Causeway Bay Books disappearances
Gui Minhai
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