Wikipedia:Styletips

This is an explanatory supplement to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. This page is intended to provide additional information about concepts in the page(s) it supplements. This page is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

Shortcut WP:STIPS

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

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

Styletips scheduling queue

Another styletip ... Including Introduce a complete list with comprising, consisting of, or composed of rather than including (which would indicate that the list is incomplete): Incorrect: The English alphabet includes 26 letters (are there more than 26?) Correct: The English alphabet comprises 26 letters Correct: The English alphabet is composed of 26 letters Woeful: The English alphabet is comprised of 26 letters Correct: The English alphabet consists of 26 letters Read more ... Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}

See also

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
• User:Tony1/Beginners' guide to the Manual of Style – a summary of the main Manual of Style page
• 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 were 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