Wikipedia:Styletips

This is an explanatory essay about the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. This page provides additional information about concepts in the page(s) it supplements. This page is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

Shortcut WP:STIPS

This is the Styletips project, which gives useful advice to editors on writing style and formatting in bite-size chunks from the Manual of Style and related pages. For the complete schedule of Styletips, see below.

Please place suggestions on the Talk page. The objective is to keep the focus of each tip narrow and to express it simply and briefly.

Another styletip ... Block quotes Use quotation marks or block quotes (not both) to distinguish long quotations from other text. Multiparagraph quotations are always block-quoted. The quotations must be precise and exactly as in the source (except for certain allowable typographical changes). The source should be cited clearly and precisely to enable readers to locate the text in question, and to quote it accurately themselves from Wikipedia. Read more ... Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}

MoS related

• Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style – an overview of commonly used style guidelines.
• Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule – a reading schedule designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Manual of Style

General formatting

• Wikipedia:Tips – overview page where you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels.
• Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a page that provides information on the basics needed to edit Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia:Writing better articles – guidance on how to improve articles
• Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts – summaries of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in a bullet-point format
• Help:Cheatsheet – a page that provides the most commonly used wiki markup