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1. Wikipedia:Manual of Style: introduction
2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles
3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section organization
4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings
5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English
6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: introduction and first four subsections
7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines
8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Calendar items; Animals, plants, and other organisms
9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Capital letters: Celestial bodies; Compass points; Institutions
10. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Ligatures andAbbreviations: first four "subsections"
11. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Abbreviations: last four "subsections" and Ampersand
12. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics: first five "subsections"
13. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics: last four "subsections"
14. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Non-breaking spaces
15. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Original wording
16. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Typographic conformity
17. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Quotations within quotations; Attribution; Linking
18. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations: Block quotations; non-English quotations
19. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Apostrophes
20. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: introduction and first four "subsections"
21. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Reasons to prefer straight quotation marks and apostrophes (and double quotation marks)
22. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Names and titles
23. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks: Punctuation inside or outside
24. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: introduction
25. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: Sentences and brackets
26. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Brackets and parentheses: Brackets and linking
27. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Ellipses
28. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Commas: introduction
29. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Commas: Serial commas
30. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Colons
31. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Semicolons
32. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens: "sub subsections" 1 and 2 and 3
33. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens: Multi-hyphenated items; Spacing; Image filenames and redirects; Non-breaking; Soft hyphens
34. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes: introduction; Punctuating a sentence (em or en dashes); Unspaced em dash; Spaced en dash
35. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes: "En dashes: other uses" and "Other dashes"
36. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Slashes
37. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation: Number signs; Terminal punctuation; Spacing
38. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation: Consecutive punctuation marks; Punctuation and footnotes; Punctuation and formulae
39. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates and time
40. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Numbers
41. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Currencies
42. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Units of measurement
43. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Common mathematical symbols
44. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Grammar and usage
45. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Vocabulary
46. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
47. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Bulleted and numbered lists
48. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Links
49. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Miscellaneous
50. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: introduction; Guidance; Development; Other community standards
51. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: Names; Capitalization; Language varieties; Non-English terms used in English
52. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#See also: Quotations in articles; Numbers, times, and dates; Lists; Punctuation guidance

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