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 provides 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 ... Pluralizing abbreviations Acronyms and initialisms, like other nouns, become plurals by adding -s or -es: they produced three CD-ROMs in the first year; the laptops were produced with three different BIOSes in 2006. As with other nouns, no apostrophe is used unless the form is a possessive. Read more ... Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}

See also

Book: Wikipedia 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
• 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