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The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated as CMOS, TCM, or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago [1]) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press. Its 18 editions (the most recent in 2024) have prescribed writing and citation styles widely used in publishing.
Similarly, an orphan word at the end of a paragraph can be relocated by forcing one or more words from the preceding text line into the paragraph line of the orphan. In web-publishing, this is typically accomplished by concatenating the words in question with a non-breaking space and, if available, by utilizing the orphans: and widows ...
It should be just the title that is italicized, not the 's. This is a pretty standard style guideline, in the Chicago Manual of Style, for example. —pfahlstrom 07:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC) Take care, though. The naive way of italicizing it will include the apostrophe, too.
Templates are also optional, but if there is a template that the character is in, it is generally required that it appears on the character page (usually someone else will edit and add a template in if you miss it, so don't fret about templates either). The series the character usually appears in will usually have a template, so try looking for ...
[[Category:Character templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Character templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
Name of Film / TV show(s) character appeared in (use this or Episode, but not both) Episode Name of TV episode(s) character appeared in (use this or Title, but not both). Do not list if character appeared in majority of episodes. Year Date(s) of out-universe appearances ShortSummary Description of the character. Be descriptive, but not excessive.
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Multiple American style guides, including The Chicago Manual of Style (since 2010), now deprecate U.S. and recommend US. For commonality reasons, use US by default when abbreviating, but retain U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established, unless there is a good reason to change it.