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

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    When a date is known to be either of two years (e.g. from a regnal or AH year conversion, or a known age at death): Anne Smith (born 1912 or 1913; died 2013) ... Other forms of uncertainty should be expressed in words, either in article text or in a footnote: April 14, 1224 (unattested date) .

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.

  4. Date and time notation in Spain - Wikipedia

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    The word y ("and") is used to denote minutes past or after the hour (e.g. las cinco y diez for "ten minutes past five"). If more than thirty minutes have elapsed since the last full hour, minutes to the hour are expressed using the word menos ("minus") (e.g. las diez menos cinco; "five minutes to ten").

  5. Glossary of Islam - Wikipedia

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    death. (Barah-wafat) Muhammad was born on the twelfth day of Rabi-ul-Awwal, the third month of the Muslim year. His death anniversary also falls on the same day, the word 'barah' standing for the twelve days of Muhammad's sickness. Waḥdat al-wujūd (الوجود) "unity of being". Philosophical term used by some Sufis. Related to fanaa Waḥy ...

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    The first letter of every word in such a name is capitalized (Alpha Centauri and not Alpha centauri; Milky Way, not Milky way). Words such as comet and galaxy should be capitalized when they form part of a proper name, but not when they are used as a generic term ( Halley's Comet is the most famous of the comets ; The Andromeda Galaxy is a ...

  7. List of Islamic years - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Hijri years (Latin: anno Hegirae or AH) with the corresponding common era years where applicable. For Hijri years since 1297 AH (1879/1881 CE), the Gregorian date of 1 Muharram, the first day of the year in the Islamic calendar, is given.

  8. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Islam-related articles/Prophet

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    according to the MOS on capitalising, which is wiki guideline, the word prophet when speaking of Muhammad should be capitalised. similarly, if you look at the Encyclopedia of Islam, arguably the most scholarly (and neutral) resource we could use on wikipedia for information on islam, it always tends to use "Prophet" as opposed to prophet or ...

  9. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    If you read the lead of MOS:CAPS, you'll see the general principle, "Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia." Looking at the article, I see that the term was made ...