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Shortcut WP:STIPS

This is theStyletips project, which gives useful advice to editors on writing style and formatting in bite-size chunks fromthe Manual of Style and related pages. For the complete schedule of Styletips,see below.

Please place suggestions on theTalk page. The objective is to keep the focus of each tip narrow and to express it simply and briefly.

Another styletip ... Dates Don't link dates or date-fragments unless there's a very good reason to do so (however, date- and year-themed articles themselves, such asJanuary 3 and1981, are an exception to this). Avoid numerical date formats such as "03/04/2005" (this could refer to 3 April or March 4—who knows?). Read more ... Add this to your user page by typing in{{Styletips}}

MoS related

• Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style – an overview of commonly used style guidelines.
• Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule – a reading schedule designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Manual of Style

General formatting

• Wikipedia:Tips – overview page where you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels.
• Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a page that provides information on the basics needed to edit Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia:Writing better articles – guidance on how to improve articles
• Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts – summaries of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in a bullet-point format
• Help:Cheatsheet – a page that provides the most commonly used wiki markup

• Wikipedia supplemental pages
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