User:Craig/Sandbox

Article titles

A title should be a recognisable name or description of the topic that is natural, sufficiently precise, concise, and consistent with those of related articles.

Any page title that includes a name should be stored in a biographical format; i.e. "Ravak Darrow" not "Darrow, Ravak". In a case where only a first name exists (i.e. Zarayne), that should be used as the sole title of the page.

Also, only link to an article once within a given portion of text. For instance, if you say "Aes Sedai" more than once in a paragraph, only link it the first time.

National varieties of English

The Library prefers no national variety of the language over any other in most namespaces. In the Project and Template namespaces, British English is the preferred variety solely for consistency.

Retaining the existing variety

When an English variety's consistent usage has been established in an article, maintain it. With few exceptions, there is no valid reason to change an article from one variety of English to another.

Date formatting

All dates should conform to the ISO 8601 international standard, i.e. 2024-04-25, or should have an unambigous meaning, e.g. 12-Dec-2012, not 12/12/12.

Punctuation

Apostrophes

• Use straight apostrophes ('), not curly apostrophes (’).
• Do not use accent marks or backticks (`) as apostrophes.

Quotation marks

• Use "straight" quotation marks, not “curly” ones. (For single apostrophe quotes: 'straight', not ‘curly’).
• Do not use accent marks, backticks (`text´), low-high („ “) or guillemet (« ») marks as quotation marks.
• Quotation marks and apostrophes in imported material should be changed if necessary.