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Manual of Style

	This page falls within the scope of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, a collaborative effort focused on enhancing clarity, consistency, and cohesiveness across the Manual of Style (MoS) guidelines by addressing inconsistencies, refining language, and integrating guidance effectively.Manual of StyleWikipedia:WikiProject Manual of StyleTemplate:WikiProject Manual of StyleManual of Style
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Template:Use

I nominated {{Use}} (a redirect to {{American English}}) at RfD earlier today, one suggestion in the discussion was to convert it into a wrapper for the various use xx template ({{Use mdy dates}}, {{Use British English}}, etc) to be used in the form e.g. {{use|mdy dates}}. I figure editors here are the most likely to have opinions on whether this would be useful/desirable/possible/etc. Please leave any comments at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 20#Template:Use to keep discussion in one place. Thryduulf (talk) 21:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of songs recorded by The Carpenters

This move discussion may be of interest --wooden superman 10:25, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Images in navboxes

Would anyone like to comment about the appropriateness of images in navboxes at Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#Images in navboxes (again)? --wooden superman 07:43, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Use of "™" in article titles

Please see the RMs Talk:Home™#Requested move 5 December 2024 and Talk:ClearSkies™#Requested move 5 December 2024 --wooden superman 09:14, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RM alert

There is an RM discussion ongoing that involves MoS, specifically MOS:GEOCOMMA.

You can find it here. Input from as many editors as possible is appreciated, so please participate. HandsomeFella (talk) 10:43, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This group's history

A little timeline:

In 2008, this group was created to fix some structural problems in the MOS (e.g., pages whose titles were "Manual of Style (subject)", such as Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Macedonia-related articles), weren't actually MOS pages, and some actual MOS pages, such as Wikipedia:Avoid statements that will date quickly, had names that said nothing about the MOS).
A "noticeboard" for non-discussion announcements to this group (not for editors to ask questions about how to apply the MOS to individual articles) was trialed in late 2008. The idea was abandoned after a week. WikiProject noticeboards were common back then (example, example, example, example, example) and have largely since been abandoned in favor of the automated Wikipedia:Article alerts system.
In 2010, the work of this group was largely finished. By that point, editors could be reasonably confident that if a page was marked as being part of the MOS, it actually was, and that if a MOS page said to do X, there wouldn't be another MOS page saying to do not-X.
Between 2013 and 2018, the only comment on this talk page that received a reply was from a MOS regular suggested deleting this page, claiming in 2014 that the (near total lack of) discussions here detracted from discussions at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style.
In 2015, there was an unrelated discussion by someone not involved in this group about creating a normal/RSN-like noticeboard for editors who have questions about how to apply the MOS. The discussion didn't even mention this group.
In 2021, the same editor who claimed in 2014 that there were distracting conversations on this talk page asserted that this group had been created in 2008 for the purpose of becoming the unrelated noticeboard that was proposed in 2015, and marked these pages as defunct with this story. If it were true that editors decided in 2008 to do something in 2015, then that would have been a very remarkable feat of planning, but there is no evidence that this was anyone's plan.

I hope this explains why I removed the incorrect story from this page today. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:32, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]