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Sensitive geopolitical references: promotes using official or neutral names and phrases, and tries to help when names of places have changed over time. Vocabulary: Flags vague adjectives, weak verbs, clichés, and other issues related to word choice. Recommends idiomatic collective nouns, such as beds of oysters over collections of oysters. [8]
Weasel words are words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated. A common form of weasel wording is through vague attribution, where a statement is dressed with authority, yet has no substantial basis. Phrases such as ...
Edit warring over style, or enforcing optional style in a bot-like fashion without prior consensus, is never acceptable. [b] [d] Unjustified changes from one acceptable, consistently applied style in an article to a different style may generally be reverted. Seek opportunities for commonality to avoid disputes over style.
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, " Italian cuisine " is "cuisine of Italy".
Open-source, cross-platform C library to generate PDF files. OpenPDF: GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0: Open source library to create and manipulate PDF files in Java. Fork of an older version of iText, but with the original LGPL / MPL license. PDFsharp: MIT C# developer library to create, extract, edit PDF files. Poppler: GNU GPL
Because it may not be immediately apparent to other readers and/or editors what the specific reason the tagged statement is in need of clarification, it is generally helpful to add a brief reason for the vague tag: {{Vague|reason=What the problem is.}} (this is preferable to using an HTML <!-- comment --> after the tag, as it is tidier to keep ...
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In linguistics and philosophy, a vague predicate is one which gives rise to borderline cases. For example, the English adjective "tall" is vague since it is not clearly true or false for someone of middling height. By contrast, the word "prime" is not vague since every number is