Style guidelines
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(Discussion of WWR's style guidelines is on the Style guidelines talk page.)
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Article names and headers in pages
Use sentence case for article names and section heads within articles. Capitalize proper nouns in article names and section heads.
Sentence case example: This is sentence case with the proper noun, Jimbob. (use this style)
Title case example: This Is Title Case With The Proper Noun, Jimbob.
Miscellaneous
Titles in italics—In the content of pages, album titles, book titles, magazine names in italics. Song names in quotes. Award names in neither quotes or italics.
Numbers—Numbers one through nine are spelled out unless they are the age of a person, date, sizes, measures, distance, percentages, temperature. (The exceptions list is rather long.)
Decades—No apostrophe between the zero and the "s" (e.g., 1980s). For abbreviations of a decade an apostrophe is placed where the missing digits would be (e.g., '80s).
Punctuation inside quotation marks—Commas and periods go inside quotation marks, whether single or double. Other punctuation, such as question marks, go inside quotation marks only if the question is part of the quote. For instance:
- Mother said, "Dinner is ready."
- Dorine was perplexed. "When is the box coming?" she asked. "Not until," Fred hesitated, "not until tomorrow."
- Did you see watch "Masterpiece Theater"?
These are referred to as typesetters' rules. More details can be found on The Guide to Grammar and Writing. An alternative method referred to as logical rules is used by Wikipedia because, as an encyclopedia, Wikipedia requires high standards of accuracy in the use of source material.
