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== | ==Punctuation and capitalisation== | ||
===Articles=== | ===Articles=== | ||
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*The following points are critical: | *The following points are critical: | ||
:*The initial letter of | :*The initial letter of an article's title should always be capitalised, whilst the rest of the words are written in minuscule. e.g. ''[[Kihā́mmic]]''. Any titles following a separating colon, as in a subpage or namespace, should be capitalised as usual, e.g. [[Literature:Ishtar spoke to her father]]. Exceptionally, the Contionary applies its own capitalisation policy, as seen in e.g. [[Contionary:ethnema]]. | ||
:*Do not use ''A'', ''An'', or ''The'' as the first word: ''<span style="color:#008000">Metaphony</span>'' not ''<span style="color:#800000">The Metaphony</span>''. | :*Do not use ''A'', ''An'', or ''The'' as the first word: ''<span style="color:#008000">Metaphony</span>'' not ''<span style="color:#800000">The Metaphony</span>''. | ||
::*Titles should normally be nouns or noun phrases: ''<span style="color:#008000">Phonotactics</span>'' not ''<span style="color:#800000">About phonotactics''. | ::*Titles should normally be nouns or noun phrases: ''<span style="color:#008000">Phonotactics</span>'' not ''<span style="color:#800000">About phonotactics''. | ||
::*The final or initial visible character should not be a punctuation mark unless it is part of a name, ''[[ | ::*The final or initial visible character should not be a punctuation mark unless it is part of a name, e.g. ''[[!Xóõ]]''. | ||
:*Avoid using nouns in the plural in page titles, hence: ''<span style="color:#008000">Verb</span>'' not ''<span style="color:#800000">Verbs</span>'' | :*Avoid using nouns in the plural in page titles, hence: ''<span style="color:#008000">Verb</span>'' not ''<span style="color:#800000">Verbs</span>'' | ||
The Style policy applies to all parts of an article, headers, sections and titles alike. | The Style policy applies to all parts of an article, headers, sections and titles alike. | ||
'''This page is solely administered by [[User:Waahlis|Waahlis]] and the remaining administrators are asked to limit their editing to the discussion page and correcting typographical errors.''' | <s>'''This page is solely administered by [[User:Waahlis|Waahlis]] and the remaining administrators are asked to limit their editing to the discussion page and correcting typographical errors.'''</s> | ||
[[Category:Meta]][[Category:Policy]] | [[Category:Meta]][[Category:Policy]] | ||