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  2. Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/5 - Wikipedia

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    Picture captions should not end in a full stop (a period) unless they are complete sentences. Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home). A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence.

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    Titles in quotation marks that include (or in unusual cases consist of) something that requires italicization for some other reason than being a title, e.g. a genus and species name, or a non-English phrase, or the name of a larger work being referred to, also use the needed italicization, inside the quotation marks: "Ferromagnetic Material in ...

  4. Talk:Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    The use of the hyphen in this case appears to be optional, however in my case I do have a hyphen and have found that in 40 years this is most helpful for others understanding double barrelled surnames and denoting that the two names were from separate marriages.

  5. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, causing confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politicians David Lloyd George (who used the hyphen when appointed to the peerage) and Iain Duncan Smith, composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber, military historian B. H. Liddell Hart ...

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    A title should be a recognizable name or description of the topic, balancing the criteria of being natural, sufficiently precise, concise, and consistent with those of related articles. For formatting guidance see the Wikipedia:Article titles § Article title format section, noting the following:

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Organisms

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    When a common (vernacular) name of a taxon is used as the article title, the boldfaced common name is followed by the italic boldfaced binomial or trinomial name, as applicable, in parentheses (round brackets) in the opening sentence of the lead section. Alternative names should be mentioned and reliably sourced in the text where applicable ...

  8. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships) - Wikipedia

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    Uses of the class name as a noun are not hyphenated, while adjectival references are hyphenated. Article names that follow the form just described are adjectival because the compound phrase made up of <class name> and "class" modifies the noun <ship type>. As such, article titles should be hyphenated:

  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Except on pages that are inherently time-sensitive and updated regularly (e.g. the "Current events" portal), terms such as now, today, currently, present, to date, so far, soon, upcoming, ongoing, and recently should usually be avoided in favor of phrases such as during the 2010s, since 2010, and in August 2020.