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gives an example of an informative yet brief full-sentence caption describing the key element (the singular protagonist) depicted and its relationship to the article's subject. The need for a full-length caption in an infobox can generally indicate one of two things: 1) an exceptionally inappropriate image or 2) an image that doesn't really ...
Quotation marks for emphasis of a single word or phrase are incorrect, and "scare quotes" are discouraged. Quotation marks are to show that you are using the correct word as quoted from the original source. For example: His tombstone was inscribed with the name "Aaron" instead of the spelling he used during his life.
If the quotation is a single word or a sentence fragment, place the terminal punctuation outside the closing quotation mark. When quoting a full sentence, the end of which coincides with the end of the sentence containing it, place terminal punctuation inside the closing quotation mark. Miller wanted, he said, "to create something timeless".
The Guardian Style Guide, for example, says "Place full points and commas inside the quotes for a complete quoted sentence; otherwise the point comes outside." [ 3 ] This is not the same as logical quotation at all (which is not concerned with sentence structure, but with literalness), and is little better than TQ's opposite insistence on ...
Definite improvement & good edit. A four-image gallery at the bottom of the page would be the best format for examples, given the length of the {{Style}} sidebar. --mikaul talk 14:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC) Thank you. Not sure which version you saw, I just rewrote it, and then reverted again to comply with "consensus before editing".
As for arts and entertainment, a simple look at any and all articles in All Music Guide (allmusic.com — random example: ) and Rolling Stone magazine (rollingstone.com — random example of song titles with commas/periods inside quote marks: and ) reveals they follow Associated Press style, not "logical quotation" style for song titles in a ...
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Introduction to the Manual of Style – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles. Simplified Manual of Style – the basics about commonly used style guidelines. Styletips – a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting. Manual of Style reading schedule – an essay. Related essays