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This is a descriptive directory of the pages which make up the '''Wikipedia Manual of Style'''. It includes only current [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines|guidelines]], not proposals or historical pages, nor pages that now redirect outside the Manual of Style (e.g. [[:Category:WikiProject style advice|WikiProjects' style-advice essays]]).

==Article content==
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]] {{small|(WP:MOS, WP:STYLE)}}
*: The main page of the Manual of Style. It contains general remarks, [[Wikipedia:Summary style|summaries]] of the guidance to be found on certain other MoS pages, and fully detailed guidance on certain topics:
** How to deal with [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English|national varieties of English]] {{small|(MOS:ENGVAR)}}
** Language for [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings|section headings]] {{small|(MOS:HEAD)}}
** How to format [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations|quotations]] {{small|(MOS:QUOTE)}}
** The preferred [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Punctuation|usage of punctuation]] {{small|(MOS:PUNCT)}}, the largest section specific to the main Manual of Style page
** Miscellaneous [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Grammar_and_usage|grammatical issues]] including the [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Possessives|writing of possessives]], use of pronouns, the ampersand {{small|(MOS:&)}}, collective plurals {{small|(MOS:PLURALS)}}, and general guidelines for dealing with [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Foreign terms|foreign words and languages]].
** Usage of [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images|images]] {{small|(MOS:IMAGES)}}.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations]] {{small|(MOS:ABBR)}}
** Use of periods, disambiguation, and which abbreviations need and need not be spelled out first.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility]] {{small|(MOS:ACCESS)}}
** Details recommended editing practices for best web accessibility of Wikipedia.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters]] {{small|(MOS:CAPS)}}
** When and when not to use capitals, [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#All caps|including all-caps]] {{small|(MOS:ALLCAPS)}}.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions]] {{small|(WP:CAPTION)}}
** Best practices for writing and formatting image captions.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers]] {{small|(MOS:NUM)}}
** Covers time and date formatting, including seasons {{small|(MOS:TIME)}}, recommendations for numbers and their notation, which units to use and how to format and abbreviate them {{small|(MOS:UNITS)}}, dealing with currencies {{small|(MOS:CURRENCY)}} and geographical coordinates {{small|(MOS:COORDS)}}.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists]] {{small|(WP:EMBED)}}
** When to and not to use a list instead of prose within an article.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons]] {{small|(MOS:ICON)}}
** On the use of small images within text.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout]] {{small|(MOS:LAYOUT)}}
** Ordering of content within articles, structures of standard appendices {{small|(MOS:APPENDIX)}}.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section]] {{small|(MOS:LEAD)}}
** Everything about the article opener, including the guidance on bolding the subject's name {{small|(MOS:BOLDTITLE)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking]] {{small|(MOS:LINKS)}}
** Everything about the best use of wikilinks.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists]] {{small|(MOS:LISTS)}}
** How and when to use lists on Wikipedia.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works]] {{small|(MOS:WORKS)}}
** Presenting a list of works by the article's subject.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation]] {{small|(MOS:PRON)}}
** How to introduce pronunciation data in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Proper names]] {{small|(MOS:PN)}}
** Details how [[Wikipedia:Article titles]] applies within the text of articles.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid]] {{small|(MOS:SELF)}}
** How to avoid mentioning Wikipedia itself, or the fact the article is a webpage.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling]] {{small|(MOS:SPELLING)}}
** Not a guideline ''per se'', but a handy guide to national varieties of English.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists]] {{small|(WP:STANDALONE)}}
** Goes into greater details than MOS:LISTS.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables]] {{small|(WP:TABLES)}}
** The use and formatting of [[Help:Table/Introduction to tables|wikitables]].
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting]] {{small|(MOS:TEXT)}}
** The use of bold {{small|(MOS:BOLD)}}, italics {{small|(MOS:ITALICS)}}, and font size {{small|(MOS:FONTSIZE)}} are all discussed here.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks]] {{small|(MOS:TM)}}
** Dealing with the idiosyncratic formatting of many trademarks.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections]] {{small|(WP:TRIVIA)}}
** How to avoid accumulation of poorly formatted miscellaneous information.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch]] {{small|(MOS:WTW)}}
** Techniques for recognizing and dealing with puffery {{small|(MOS:PUFF)}}, charged words {{small|(MOS:LABEL and MOS:CLAIM)}}, weasel and doubtful words {{small|(MOS:WEASEL and MOS:ALLEGED)}}, editorializing {{small|(MOS:EDITORIAL)}}, euphemisms {{small|(MOS:EUPHEMISM)}}, clichés {{small|(MOS:CLICHE)}} and rapidly dated expressions {{small|(MOS:RELTIME)}} are all to be found here.

==Items outside article text==
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Article message boxes]] {{Small|(WP:AMBOX)}}
** Legacy page describing the styling of these banner templates.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages]] {{small|(MOS:DAB)}}
** What to include, how to format it and in which order.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes]] {{small|(WP:IBX)}}
** Design of infobox templates.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Wikipedia books]] {{small|(WP:MOSBOOKS)}}
** The styling of [[help:books|books]].

==Topic- and culture-specific guidelines==
===Topic-specific===
These usually originated as project guidelines, and typically cover all of terminology, layout, conventions and formatting related to the topic at hand.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Anime and manga]] {{small|(MOS:ANIME)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography]] {{small|(MOS:BIO)}}
** How to deal with all the parts of the name, including post-nominal letters {{small|(MOS:INITIALS)}} and honorifics {{small|(MOS:HONORIFIC)}}.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Chemistry]] {{small|(MOS:CHEM)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Comics]] {{small|(WP:CMOS)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Cue sports]] {{small|(MOS:CUE)}}
** For all billiards/pool games, but see also [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Snooker|MOS:SNOOKER]] for snooker-specific additions.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Film]] {{small|(MOS:FILM)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:ISLAM)}}
** Transliteration and terminology, religious text references
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Latter Day Saints]] {{small|(MOS:LDS)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Legal]] {{small|(MOS:LEGAL)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics]] {{small|(MOS:MATHS)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:MED)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Military history]] {{small|(MOS:MILHIST)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music]] {{small|(MOS:MUSIC)}}
** Also covers musical notation (in text and images), and use of italics for classical music works
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music samples]] {{small|(WP:SAMPLE)}}
** Fair-use policy on this issue, and how to present them in articles.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels]] {{small|(WP:NOVELS)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philosophy]] {{small|(MOS:PHILO)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Record charts]] {{small|(WP:CHARTS)}}
** The ordering, presentation and sourcing of chart information
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Road junction lists]] {{small|(MOS:RJL)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Snooker]] {{small|(MOS:SNOOKER)}}
** Much of [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Cue sports|MOS:CUE]] also applies.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stringed instrument tunings]] {{small|(MOS:TUNINGS)}}
** Spun out from [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music|MOS:MUSIC]]
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Television]] {{small|(MOS:TV)}}
** Covers television series, seasons and episodes.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles]] {{small|(MOS:TITLE)}}
** About the use of italics or quotation marks for titles of works.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Video games]] {{small|(MOS:VG)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts]] {{small|(MOS:VA)}}
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction]] {{small|(MOS:FICTION)}}
** How to keep the right perspective, source and present in-universe information and similar aspects of writing about fiction.

===Country-, region- and language-specific===
A number of proposed or inactive language-specific guidelines exist, but they are not listed here; there are language-specific guidelines for several languages including Korean, Chinese and Hebrew; most issues are instead covered by [[:Category:Wikipedia naming conventions|naming conventions]].
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:CA)}}
** Covers mostly disambiguation, French names and sourcing population data.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/France and French-related]] {{small|(MOS:FR)}}
** Accents and their effects on sorting, capitalization of works, noble titles.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hawaii-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:HAWAII)}}
** Capitalization and use of Hawaiian diacritics.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Indonesia-related articles]] {{small|(WP:ID-NAME)}}
** Naming and spelling conventions.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:IE)}}
** Historical issues, Irish vs. English, reference to counties
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:JP)}}
** Mostly issues of romanization and plural, but also terminology, addresses and related matters
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philippine-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:PHIL)}}
** Choice of ethnonym, use of diacritics, disambiguation, name of subdivisions
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Poland-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:PL)}}
** Terminology, pronunciation, and spelling
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Singapore-related articles]] {{small|(MOS:SG)}}
** Mostly covers names of people

==Other relevant pages==
The following pages are not part of the Manual of Style, but contain related guidance.
* [[Wikipedia:Article titles]] {{small|(WP:AT)}}
** Principles for choosing the titles of articles. Contains links to many topic-related naming convention pages.
* [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]] {{small|(WP:CITE)}}
** Guidance on organizing and formatting references.
* [[Wikipedia:Summary style]] {{small|(WP:SUMMARY)}}
** Method used when a section becomes its own article.

==See also==
* [[Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/1|Introduction to the Manual of Style]] – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles.
* [[Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style|Simplified Manual of Style]] – the basics about commonly used style guidelines.
* [[Wikipedia:Styletips|Styletips]] – a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting.
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule|Manual of Style reading schedule]] – an essay.

;Related essays
* [[Wikipedia:Article development#How to develop an article|Article development]] – lists the ways in which you can help an article grow.
** [[Wikipedia:Basic copyediting|Basic copyediting]] – gives helpful advice on copy-editing.
** [[Wikipedia:Writing better articles|Better articles]] – guidance on how to make articles better.
** [[Wikipedia:The perfect article|Perfect article]] – point by point guidance on what makes a great article.
* [[Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes|Avoiding common mistakes]] – gives a list of common mistakes and how to avoid them.
* [[Wikipedia:Logical quotation on Wikipedia|Logical quotation]] – describes how to best use logical quotation in articles.

;Other community standards
* [[Wikipedia:List of policies|List of policies]] – a comprehensive descriptive directory of policies
* [[Wikipedia:List of guidelines|List of guidelines]] – a comprehensive descriptive directory of guidelines.
** [[Help:Contents/Directory#Community standards and advice|Community standards and advice]] – a quick directory of community norms and related guidance essays.
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Advice pages|Advice pages]] – about advice pages written by WikiProjects.

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