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According to The SBL Handbook of Style For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies (p. 153), "Ancient" should not be capitalized in "ancient

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Ancient Near East

According to The SBL Handbook of Style For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies (p. 153), "Ancient" should not be capitalized in "ancient Near East", nor in "ancient Near Eastern".

Common mistakes

These are mistakes I constantly see (and fix) on Wikipedia. It would be great if more editors were aware of these. I didn't know about all these when I started editing, so I'm posting them here in the hopes that they will be seen by others.

  • Incorrect capitalization. Surprisingly, I see incorrectly capitalized words more often than incorrectly uncapitalized words. Only proper nouns need to be capitalized; not terms such as "socialism" or "democracy". In some cases it is difficult to tell whether a word should be capitalized; see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(capital_letters) for reference.
  • Placement of inline citations. This is not a grammatical mistake; rather, a stylistic one. According to Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punctuation_and_footnotes, inline citations must be placed after punctuation. This also applies to "Citation needed" tags.
  • Use of quotations. Quotations should not be italicized. If you use blockquote, quotation marks are not necessary. Cquote is only for pull quotes. Also, use the "" characters, not “”. See Wikipedia:MOSQUOTE#Quotations for more information.
  • Location of punctuation. Punctuation marks should only be inside quotation marks if they are part of the quoted material. Punctuation should only be inside brackets if the sentence is wholly contained therein. See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punctuation.
  • Image captions. Do not put periods (AKA full stops) in image captions unless they are a complete sentence. For example, "A picture of a moose" is not a complete sentence and thus does not warrant a period. See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(captions)#Wording.
  • Dashes. When writing ranges of values, such as 1978–1986, or indicating a relationship, such as Boston–Hartford route, use an en dash (–). For a break of thought, such as "he wrote to me—not nicely, I might add—that he lost his job", use an em dash (—). See Dash#Common_dashes.

Thanks for reading, and do not hesitate to correct me if you notice any mistakes!

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