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  2. 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.

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Authority control metadata, if needed, using {{Authority control}} (distinguishes uses of the same name for two subjects, or multiple names for one subject) Categories, which should be the very last material in the article's source code if there are no stub templates; Stub templates, if needed, which should follow the categories

  4. Wikipedia : Simplified Manual of Style

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    A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence. Use an en dash (–) with   before and a space after; or use an em dash (—) without spaces. See Wikipedia:How to make dashes. Avoid using two hyphens (--) to make a dash; and avoid using a hyphen for a minus sign. read ...

  5. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  6. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] There are also a large number of exceptions, which further complicates matters. [citation needed] Some rules of thumb can be found in the Major Keary's "On Hyphenation – Anarchy of Pedantry." [3] Among the algorithmic approaches to hyphenation, the one implemented in the TeX typesetting system is widely used.

  7. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dashes

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    The question is, does If hyphens and dashes are needed to write a page name correctly (e.g., Piano-Rag-Music, Jack-in-the-box, Nineteen Eighty-Four), prefer simple hyphens, and avoid hair spaces, even in the odd case of a range forming part of the title, e.g., History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991). in section Dash guidelines for Wikipedia ...

  8. Readability - Wikipedia

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    Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand a written text.The concept exists in both natural language and programming languages though in different forms. In natural language, the readability of text depends on its content (the complexity of its vocabulary and syntax) and its presentation (such as typographic aspects that affect legibility, like font size, line height ...

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    Does not need to be written out in full on first use, nor provided on first use in parentheses after the full term if written out. pm or p.m. post meridiem: Should not be written out in full in times and does not need to be linked. It should not be written PM or P.M. radar: radio detection and ranging: scuba: self-contained underwater breathing ...