Wikipedia:WikiProject Manual of Style

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WikiProject Manual of Style was a project to coordinate the multiple pages which form the Manual of Style guidelines (MoS). The content of those pages is not determined here, but principally at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style.

The group's main goals, such as removing inappropriate uses of {{MoS guideline}} tags from unauthorized pages, creating a predictable naming convention for MoS pages, and resolving obvious self-contradictions in MoS pages, were largely met by 2010.

Scope

The Wikipedia Manual of Style is a key guideline for writing Wikipedia articles. Its provisions are now spread across many different pages, and coordinating it has become a challenging task. The purpose of this WikiProject is to address this challenge.

Goals

• To promote the coordination and rationalisation of the Manual of Style pages, in particular by identifying discrepancies between them, overlap in their scopes, and improvements that can be made to their structure and wording.
• To develop guidelines for the acceptance of new pages into the Manual of Style, and to serve as a forum where consensus may be gained for such acceptance.
• To provide a forum to discuss issues that involve more than one Manual of Style page, and other issues related to the Manual of Style and naming conventions, including their role and status in Wikipedia.

This WikiProject aims to be as inclusive as possible: anyone can be involved, and all contributions are welcome. It is important that the WikiProject reflect the consensus of editors of all Manual of Style pages. Where editors at different pages disagree, the project aims to facilitate discussion rather than impose solutions. This page is a project, not a guideline, and so it can only help to organise communication between editors; it cannot change guidelines.

Related projects

• Wikipedia:Help Project
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Policy and Guidelines

Open tasks

Manual of Style pages

• Pages using the Manual of Style template
• Pages marked as Manual of Style guidelines
• Wikipedia style guidelines

Participants

Please add your user name in alphabetical order.

• Beggarsbanquet
• CarlJohanSveningsson
• Cas Liber
• Christopher Parham
• COGDEN
• Colin
• Dig deeper
• Dekimasu
• Dicklyon
• Eleassar
• E to the Pi times i
• Fdssdf
• Geometry guy
• Graham Colm
• HeartGlow30797
• Iazyges
• Kubanczyk
• Matthewedwards
• Mclay1
• Morphh
• Ned Scott
• Nihonjoe
• Rlandmann
• Roger Davies
• SandyGeorgia
• Sb2001
• Septentrionalis
• SMcCandlish
• Sroc
• STSC
• Taku
• The Duke of Waltham
• Theodore Kloba
• Tony1

Userbox: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Manual of Style/userbox}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Manual of Style.

Templates and categories

• {{Style}}, the style navbox
• {{MoS-guideline}}, for tagging pages that form part of the Manual of Style
• {{subcat guideline}}, for tagging any kind of guideline (use the "|style guideline" parameter to identify a non-MoS style guideline)
• {{WikiProject Manual of Style}}, this project's talk page banner

External links

• Advice on using words like "should", "must", and "may" in policies