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These minor changes improve consistency and maintainability of article source. I mark these edits minor unless the work also includes another substantial change. I try not to make edits that only include minor changes.

Short description

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Add or improve

Export better description to WikiData (and edit for initial lowercase)

Tags

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Add necessary tags

Remove resolved tags

Establish WP:ENGVAR, tag and create consistency

Acronyms

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Link to the full description then define acronym parenthetically

Don't define an acronym if it is not used later in the article

  • except if the term is widely known by its acronym
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Avoid back-to-back links (WP:SOB)

Do not WP:OVERLINK

Do not MOS:REPEATLINK

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Remove unnecessary pipes with User:Nardog/Unpipe

Do not use a redirect as the target in a piped link

Avoid using pipes for alternate terminology. Use a redirect or, better yet, change the terminology used in the source article to match the title of the target.

Avoid piped section links. Use redirects instead, if available.

Terms

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MOS:TERM: Quotes are for things someone said. Use lower-case italics for technical terms.

Title

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WP:LOWERCASE: Only use title case for proper nouns

MOS:ACROTITLE: Avoid acronyms in titles

Match title to first bold mention

Lead

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MOS:BOLDSYN: Bold redirect targets

MOS:BOLDLINK: avoid links in bolded portion

Create redirects for listed alternate names

Headings

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MOS:HEAD: Only use title case for proper nouns

MOS:NOBACKREF: Don't repeat article title as part of heading

MOS:SECTIONANCHOR: Format additional section anchors

Content order

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MOS:ORDER

See also

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20em column formatting for large See also sections

Sort alphabetically

Avoid unnecessary redirects

WP:NOTSEEALSO

  • No redlinks
  • No disambig links
  • No repeats of links already in article or navigation templates

Move links to body

Notes

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Move tangential material to Notes section with {{efn}} and {{notelist}}

Referencing

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Convert external links to references

Combine repeated references

Endmatter

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Double horizontal space before {{Stub}} templates

Remove custom {{Reflist}} column formatting

Bracket additional sources with {{Refbegin}} and {{Refend}}

Talk page

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Implement any suggested improvements

Close any completed discussions

Update ratings and importance

Curate WikiProjects

Enable auto-archiving for long and old pages