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Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 01:53:04

This Manual of Style (MoS or MOS) is the style manual for all English Wikipedia articles. This primary page is supported by further detailed subpages,...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/2006 World Monuments Watch List of Most Endangered Sites/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 16:27:07

ranges should have an En dash between them, instead of hyphens, per WP:MOSDASH Each entry in the "Remarks" column should begin with a capital letter....

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Ariane Lope
Senin, 2023-02-27 21:17:21

11:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC) Delete per nominator and violation of WP:MOSDASH. Note related pages User:Carlette Quinto (aka "ticklebear") and User:Rappl...

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Wikipedia:Llama/User dragged to ArbCom over username
Kamis, 2009-01-29 06:08:29

be renamed by a bureaucrat. Following the adoption of the contentious "MOSDASH" guideline, an unnamed user left a note on Richard Arthur Norton (1958-...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Exploration of Io/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 16:45:50

taken care of before going to FAC. Date ranges need En dashes, per WP:MOSDASH. Intro "The Exploration of Io, one of Jupiter's..." — "exploration" should...

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Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Senin, 2023-12-25 05:24:51

and must. En dash for one year range, hyphen for another. Please see WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 09:56, 16 March 2011 (UTC) He must have made the arrangement...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/2008 World Monuments Watch List of Most Endangered Sites/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 16:27:36

ranges should have an En dash between them, instead of hyphens, per WP:MOSDASH Each entry in the "Remarks" column should begin with a capital letter....

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Philadelphia Flyers players/archive1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 03:59:06

dashes as I have done here, and there is nothing that I can see in WP:MOSDASH stating that either should be preferred. You're right, I don't see anything...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 74
Selasa, 2016-03-08 13:59:42

advertised at WP:VPPOL, since this is simply straightforward compliance with WP:MOSDASH; it's not a "proposal", it's just maintenance.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ ...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/List of storms in the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season/archive1
Jumat, 2022-02-04 11:22:45

dates, dates like "July 14 – 16" should be: "July 14–16". Actually, per WP:MOSDASH, items with a space within either or both of them should contain an enspaced...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Chickasaw Turnpike/archive1
Jumat, 2008-05-02 06:30:39

compound, as in "cost versus benefit", so an en dash was required per WP:MOSDASH. I'm not sure as to the image issue; I'll have someone with a different...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/New York City Subway/Station naming convention
Selasa, 2023-02-14 01:59:15

within one or both of the elements, the en dash is unspaced, per the WP:MOSDASH guideline. Any other parts of a name that are clearly abbreviations or...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RjwilmsiBot
Kamis, 2023-02-09 17:58:01

before. --IP69.226.103.13 (talk) 08:30, 14 November 2009 (UTC) See WP:MOSDASH. --Cybercobra (talk) 09:29, 14 November 2009 (UTC) Thanks, the links above...

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Wikipedia:AutoEd
Kamis, 2026-05-28 15:40:06

preset. Maintainer: Jerome Frank Disciple Dashes—reformats dashes per WP:MOSDASH. Maintainer: Ohconfucius, forked from GregU. It is VERY easy to install...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/Capitol Loop (Lansing, Michigan)
Minggu, 2025-05-25 23:22:06

02:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC) Comments Last sentence of lead - watch WP:MOSDASH. "street is divided into three-lane north and south bound sections" - rephrase...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Nathan Drake (character)/archive1
Senin, 2021-09-13 19:34:56

acceptable style for encyclopedia writing (plus, even I don't know WP:MOSDASH, this prolly runs afoul o' that.) I would just change it over to "Said...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yugoslav torpedo boat T7/archive1
Rabu, 2019-02-13 07:06:41

Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:21, 30 January 2019 (UTC) I'm not a MOSDASH expert, but I think it should be May–June 1929. No, whilst the en dash...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Peer review/Washington State Route 531/Archive1
Selasa, 2025-01-14 07:35:00

disjunction (the SR-531 and I-5 interchange), you should use an en dash (–). WP:MOSDASH has details. (Note this also applies to county lines, "McClain–Garvin county...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JCbot 4
Kamis, 2023-02-09 17:40:45

"north–south"; otherwise adding en dashes where appropriate as per WP:MOSDASH and associated guidelines. Changing "north/south" or "east/west" to "north–south"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Hubble Space Telescope/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:07:54

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:54, 27 April 2008 (UTC) I think I've now resolved all MOSDASH issues. I added a few missing publishers, dates, and accessdates. I got...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Peer review/H-58 (Michigan county highway)
Senin, 2008-08-04 09:36:17

2008 (UTC) Alger-Smith sawmill may need an en dash (Alger–Smith), see WP:MOSDASH for details. En-dashed. Imzadi1979 (talk) 00:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC) Mostly...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Mercury-Atlas 8/archive1
Minggu, 2009-11-29 17:00:27

"while" and "among". Spaced hyphens are a rare breed. WP:HYPHEN and WP:MOSDASH have details. I replaced them with em dashes but might have missed a few...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Convention of 1833/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:18:29

especially at the top. More is needed. MoS breach at opening: please see WP:MOSDASH concerning the spacing of en dashes. Here, 1 and 13 are the elements. Fixed...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/The Strokes discography
Minggu, 2022-12-11 05:11:46

figures. I'd prefer en rather than em dashes for blank squares. I think MOSDASH recommends this. Try it and I think you'll find it doesn't clutter the...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927/archive1
Senin, 2022-03-28 05:09:45

length of something (e.g. forty-year, fifty-year, etc.) Please adhere to WP:MOSDASH. 913–927 should be written 913–27, and this rule for indicating dates (whether...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/HMS Endeavour/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 18:31:12

narrative in A fringe of leaves! Tony (talk) 15:18, 31 July 2009 (UTC) PS WP:MOSDASH and the preceding hyphen section would be a good read. No hyphens after...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Metric system/archive1
Jumat, 2013-05-17 17:28:28

minor and not essential for GA, but dashes should be consistent; see WP:MOSDASH. Right now, hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes are used with no consistency...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/J. C. W. Beckham/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:55:10

together as one word. Fixed. "8—1 decision" – an en dash, please. See WP:MOSDASH. Fixed. These stupid dashes will be the death of me. :) Consider using...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Economy of India/archive2
Rabu, 2022-03-16 13:29:30

in"—the employment of. And why the parentheses? Done. Spaced em dashes (see MOSDASH). Replaced with spaced en dashes throughout the article. Overlinked: e...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Convoy GP55/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:18:35

convoys"—en dash because it's motion from one to the other. Please see WP:MOSDASH and/or these easy exercises. Tony (talk) 13:27, 7 August 2009 (UTC) Done...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Meet the Parents/archive1
Jumat, 2010-04-23 17:00:19

another caption (alternatively, a cite for the "critical acclaim"). Per mosdash, interruptions should be indicated by either a spaced en dash – like this...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Free State of Galveston/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-16 13:49:22

March 2010 (UTC) En dash spacing is wrong in the infobox: please see WP:MOSDASH. Somebody changed that already. --Mcorazao (talk) 06:36, 22 March 2010...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Sabtu, 2022-12-10 12:33:38

the removal, for example. Ironholds (talk) 17:57, 14 November 2008 (UTC) MOSDASH says: "Spacing: All disjunctive en dashes are unspaced, except when there...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SteveBot 3
Selasa, 2023-03-14 19:45:23

thing in MOS is relatively recent, and the corresponding section of WP:MOSDASH has a disputed tag. I have in the past opposed bots doing automatic MOS...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Riverina
Selasa, 2022-05-17 01:43:58

that the third para is choppy and will rewrite Modified to comply with WP:MOSDASH The Riverina is indeed arid in parts; "Rainfall levels in the Riverina...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Glorious First of June
Selasa, 2025-01-21 00:18:21

feel need citations, and a few phrases that I didn't understand. Per WP:MOSDASH, unspaced mdashes should be used instead of spaced ndashes (or hyphens)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2007–08 Pittsburgh Penguins season/archive1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 21:03:19

Do you need to add "at the time"? En dash for scores (12–2); please see MOSDASH. I haven't read further than the lead; the prose looks passable thus far...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Black Sabbath/archive1
Jumat, 2021-10-29 22:52:58

"as a single - the band's first since Paranoid - but failed"--review WP:MOSDASH "Technical Ecstasy, released on 25 September 1976, was met with mixed reviews...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
Minggu, 2022-04-24 02:42:37

throughout. Gary King (talk) 06:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC) Comments Per WP:MOSDASH, don't offset quotes of less than 4 lines - there is a shorter one in the...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/1956 Winter Olympics/archive1
Rabu, 2010-03-03 01:18:54

Thus, January 26 – February 5, 1956 would be the correct format, per WP:MOSDASH. "A total of 32 nations participated in the Games... " - Tighten to "Thirty-two...

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 31
Sabtu, 2023-03-25 15:51:42

(UTC) You are correct that em dashes shouldn't be used with spaces (see WP:MOSDASH). Beyond that, they're not really necessary for such a short phrase either...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Vijay filmography/archive1
Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:28:56

you, kid 16:08, 10 March 2017 (UTC) Emdashes shouldn't be spaced per WP:MOSDASH @Vensatry: Can you point me out at least one instance where? I really can't...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/New York/Resources/All-time route list
Jumat, 2026-08-14 04:42:46

assignment–year/time of removal). Remember to space the en dash per WP:MOSDASH if one of the ranges is "early x" or "late x". Use existing dabs as a basis...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive AG
Jumat, 2024-02-23 01:58:36

discussion with 213.155.224.232: Sorry that I am pestering ;-), but ... At WP:MOSDASH is mentioned: Hyphens and dashes are generally rather avoided in page names...

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2019 October 14
Selasa, 2019-10-22 09:35:55

writing on Wikipedia, we follow Wikipedia's own rules. The MOS says, at WP:MOSDASH, and I quote "An em dash is always unspaced (without a space on either...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident
Sabtu, 2023-01-28 22:18:42

should either use unspaced emdashes (preferred) or spaced endashes (see WP:MOSDASH). Done. Not me [4] Ryan4314 (talk) 10:35, 17 September 2009 (UTC) "When...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hillsboro, Oregon
Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:11:06

stubs for the red links (no big deal, though)? "north–south", etc. (see WP:MOSDASH. "7", then "sixty-eight"? See MOSNUM. —Preceding unsigned comment added...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irresistible (Jessica Simpson song)/archive1
Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:46:37

to fix it :( I think I've fixed the template so it now complies with WP:MOSDASH. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC) — Novice7 (talk) 04:05...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1998 Comfrey – St. Peter tornado outbreak/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 02:48:54

WxGopher (talk) 01:42, 19 August 2008 (UTC) I'm fairly familiar with WP:MOSDASH, so I'll try to take a look at the hyphen usage within the next day. –Juliancolton...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Anstey Hill Recreation Park/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 02:57:50

usage at all; they supply water. En dash required for the pipeline. See WP:MOSDASH. You know I hate "various". I suppose we don't know how many ... Tony (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Germany international footballers
Senin, 2025-01-20 16:25:17

I said about expanding the lead above applies here. Style: Breaches WP:MOSDASH in the lead; replace those hyphens (national team - it covers players with...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Science Fantasy (magazine)/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 19:27:16

02:59, 16 April 2011 (UTC) Source review I believe today's edition of WP:MOSDASH calls for unspaced endashes between months of the same year Be consistent...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hours of service
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:48:25

right so I removed it. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 22:59, 9 May 2008 (UTC) Per WP:MOSDASH, need to use ndashes for numeric ranges 7–8 instead of 7-8. Done. --ErgoSum88...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/April 2017
Selasa, 2017-04-25 07:31:10

you, kid 16:08, 10 March 2017 (UTC) Emdashes shouldn't be spaced per WP:MOSDASH @Vensatry: Can you point me out at least one instance where? I really can't...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/April 2010
Jumat, 2010-04-30 05:25:16

dashes as I have done here, and there is nothing that I can see in WP:MOSDASH stating that either should be preferred. You're right, I don't see anything...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive225
Selasa, 2025-09-23 20:20:35

the MOSDASH debate?" Sometimes we really do have to take a majority decision. We cannot simultaneously do "A" and "not-A", and (as in the MOSDASH debate)...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive129
Jumat, 2023-04-21 21:29:12

section of article titles to attempt to settle an argument over whether MOSDASH applies to article titles. I am less amused by his trying to claim that...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Baker Street and Waterloo Railway/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:02:32

The year range should have an unspaced en dash in the first one (see MOSDASH). I've boosted the px size of the Baker Street excerpt below, but the text...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive222
Senin, 2025-09-01 08:37:10

(UTC) Works fine for me. The "special dash" is called an en dash, see WP:MOSDASH. 75.57.242.120 (talk) 00:53, 9 April 2011 (UTC) Resolved  – Page deleted...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Villa Park/archive1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 05:34:01

changed to hyphens for consistency now though every time I seem to read WP:MOSDASH it is the subject of an edit war so I never really know where to stand...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1962 Tour de France/archive2
Selasa, 2019-03-05 07:05:48

introduced: looks like you're using spaced em dashes, which are forbidden by MOSDASH: it has to be spaced en dashes or unspaced em dashes. A pity, as I like...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/UsuallyNonviolentBot 3
Sabtu, 2017-12-30 01:24:10

ILIKEIT anyway, particularly where official style guides disagree; e.g. WP:MOSDASH). Jc86035 (talk) 12:21, 3 December 2017 (UTC) @SMcCandlish: By the way...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Action of 1 January 1800/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 02:53:15

long sentence. Fixed.XavierGreen (talk) 02:30, 11 January 2011 (UTC) WP:MOSDASH: 400–500 unspaced. Done.XavierGreen (talk) 02:30, 11 January 2011 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Utah State Route 103/archive1
Rabu, 2022-03-23 19:50:08

work on maybe including a full state map in a corner for reference. WP:MOSDASH, I don't see the issue. If it is because I-15 isnt I–15, take it up with...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire
Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:01:13

2008 (UTC) Endash issue now appears to be resolved in accordance with WP:MOSDASH. Of note, endashes are properly used between two dates, (eg., 1509–1512)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/M-35 (Michigan highway)
Minggu, 2023-04-09 01:00:01

three types in all places. All usages of dashes is in compliance with MOSDASH. Imzadi1979 (talk) 17:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC) First para-I think general...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NRHP renaming proposals
Kamis, 2009-02-26 13:03:07

that in WP:MOS somewhere?--Appraiser (talk) 02:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC) WP:MOSDASH. Titles generally have to conform to the MOS except where otherwise noted...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/June 2008
Senin, 2008-06-30 01:41:47

figures. I'd prefer en rather than em dashes for blank squares. I think MOSDASH recommends this. Try it and I think you'll find it doesn't clutter the...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/November 2008
Selasa, 2010-11-23 01:11:27

the removal, for example. Ironholds (talk) 17:57, 14 November 2008 (UTC) MOSDASH says: "Spacing: All disjunctive en dashes are unspaced, except when there...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/December 2008
Kamis, 2009-07-09 03:29:29

I said about expanding the lead above applies here. Style: Breaches WP:MOSDASH in the lead; replace those hyphens (national team - it covers players with...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Battle of Naissus
Senin, 2014-04-07 04:40:14

key for it. Its use is mandated by Wikipedia's 'Manual of Style' at WP:MOSDASH. The ndash is required for "disjunction" (where it is used in "ranges"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Stanley Bruce/archive1
Senin, 2025-01-20 03:01:01

{{spaced ndash}} to ensure correct linewrap handling, as suggested at WP:MOSDASH. (This is not a requirement for my support, at all, but it's a good idea...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tropical Storm Marco (1990)/archive1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 05:03:28

people in order to form a more perfect union.) 07:51, 31 January 2010 (UTC) MOSDASH: unspaced en dash please. Done.Mitch32(We the people in order to form a...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/September 2008
Minggu, 2010-01-10 00:37:56

23:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC) conoms: RyRy (talk); Rlendog (talk) Comment MoSDASH issues in the lead image caption. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:29...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/June 2009
Selasa, 2009-06-30 22:25:14

footnotes issues further but would appreciate help. En dashes for ranges: WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 14:24, 5 June 2009 (UTC) Thanks now got the typo & I hope...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Herman Vandenburg Ames/archive1
Sabtu, 2018-08-25 07:05:49

load, and that he might have taken those positions to settle down. WP:MOSDASH says no spaced eM dashes. The choice for interrupting dashes is closed...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Shale oil extraction/archive1
Sabtu, 2025-03-22 20:32:22

from in front of an em dash in the "Process principle" section, per WP:MOSDASH. There's a parenthesis just before the em dash, giving other words for...

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Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 September 20
Rabu, 2022-03-30 06:13:44

Jenks24 (talk) 13:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC) Rename I'm not a big fan of MOSDASH but I don't see any strong reason that these should be inconsistent with...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 104
Selasa, 2026-03-10 22:52:59

scores of gnoming editors to change hyphens to en dashes where indicated by MOSDASH and the major style guides on both sides of the Atlantic (except appositional...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 155
Selasa, 2025-09-23 20:23:45

Region Maiō T. (talk) 19:11, 6 May 2017 (UTC) That's a style issue—see WP:MOSDASH. If that's not clear, the people at WT:Manual of Style would offer advice...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Alfred the Great/archive1
Senin, 2008-02-11 08:03:42

then the next paragraph goes back to talking about him at age 5. SEE WP:MOSDASH for when to use hyphens, ndashes, and mdashes; the article does not appear...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Missouri River/archive4
Minggu, 2025-11-09 19:40:40

thousand"—personal pref for "more than". You might like it better too? long-standing. MOSDASH: "Kansas City, Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas,". And there are a few boundaries...

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Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 July 23
Selasa, 2023-03-14 11:28:25

dash in correspondence with IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, after WP:MOSDASH. Tinlinkin (talk) 10:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC) Don't know about the guidelines...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/Pennsylvania Turnpike/archive2
Minggu, 2025-05-25 23:27:32

east–west. I have fixed it myself, but for future reference, according to WP:MOSDASH, an en dash is used any time two terms that are different have a dash between...

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Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 January 13
Kamis, 2023-02-09 19:29:38

Category:2008–09 South Pacific cyclone season Nominator's rationale: WP:MOSDASH –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 16:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC) Keep or rename...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2007 January 11
Selasa, 2022-03-29 00:53:59

on this? --213.155.224.232 19:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC) Found it: At WP:MOSDASH is mentioned: Hyphens and dashes are generally rather avoided in page names...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/24th Infantry Division (United States)/archive1
Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:59:19

featured article. JKBrooks85 (talk) 08:21, 26 August 2009 (UTC) Please see WP:MOSDASH, indeed the MilHist style guide, for the spacing of en dashes in date ranges...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jacob van Ruisdael/archive1
Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:22:42

definitely used, it needs to be a spaced endash or unspaced emdash, per WP:MOSDASH. Be careful with authors vs. editors, especially for large reference works...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Her Majesty's Theatre
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:44:32

shouldn't be bolded here. (same for The Haymarket Ioera House) See WP:MOSDASH; year ranges should be separated by an unspaced ndash; Doesn't this indicate...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/U.S. Route 50 in Nevada
Minggu, 2025-05-25 23:20:57

dash (–) instead. More on this can be found under "disjunction" in WP:MOSDASH. Also, the political boundary dividing Nevada and Utah from each other...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Boeing 777/archive2
Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:57:51

requires that page ranges be separated with an ndash, not a hyphen. (see WP:MOSDASH) To my eyes all the page ranges in the references look wrong what makes...

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Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 September 5
Senin, 2024-03-04 04:13:18

en dashes? And you'll have to direct me to where this exemption from WP:MOSDASH for categories is written. ÷seresin 20:50, 5 September 2009 (UTC) If it's...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Verrières Ridge
Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:04:39

to this as well? Thanks. KnightLago (talk) 22:18, 13 June 2008 (UTC) WP:MOSDASH --ROGER DAVIES talk 03:53, 14 June 2008 (UTC) Originally, Spring Why is...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett
Selasa, 2023-10-17 22:33:35

as well as being redundant. Unspaced en dashes in the infobox; see WP:MOSDASH. It's OK only. Could do with shining up, and not just on the matters I've...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of British Airways/archive1
Selasa, 2025-09-23 19:32:04

needs a very good reason to be linked. Please see WP:OVERLINK. See also WP:MOSDASH concerning page and year ranges. I've run the script through it. Does "airline"...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/Atlantic City – Brigantine Connector
Minggu, 2025-05-25 23:22:46

(UTC) The title should be "Atlantic City – Brigantine Connector" per WP:MOSDASH: "All disjunctive en dashes are unspaced, except when there is a space...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Rhinemaidens (Wagner)/archive1
Jumat, 2023-02-10 17:23:36

2008 (UTC) Same paragraph: I converted some hyphens to em dashes per WP:MOSDASH, but there are now rather too many. Might be best to rephrase to avoid...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers
Minggu, 2024-02-18 03:17:53

23:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC) conoms: RyRy (talk); Rlendog (talk) Comment MoSDASH issues in the lead image caption. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:29...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2007 February 15
Minggu, 2023-03-26 02:30:13

You want to use the en dash for spans of years (it's this one:–). See WP:MOSDASH for more information (which is probably the page you were thinking of)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ottawa language/archive1
Jumat, 2022-05-20 15:56:09

(UTC) Probably a hyphen is better for -mo, etc., not an en dash. See WP:MOSDASH and see what you think. Changed. A bot went through and made mass changes...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ubinas/archive1
Kamis, 2025-09-25 20:47:18

hyphen: "7 to 9 centimetres per year (2.8 to 3.5 in/year)". Look up WP:MOSDASH. "A depression, whose margin is cut by landslide scars, cuts into the basement...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/Action potential/archive1
Rabu, 2023-03-15 14:56:56

and many other editors mistakenly use hyphens for page-number ranges. WP:MOSDASH, one of MoS's sillier sections; it should not be permitted to interfere...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 334
Senin, 2022-05-23 03:45:26

(talk) 14:19, 23 April 2015 (UTC) Welcome to the wonderful world of WP:MOSDASH (yes, we have a whole style guideline on what sort of dashes to use...)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Smedley Butler/archive2
Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:47:06

(talk) 15:21, 14 March 2010 (UTC) Please note the en dashes I've put in. WP:MOSDASH also says not to write "From 1927–1929". How else should I write it? --Kumioko...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor/archive1
Minggu, 2022-05-22 03:21:04

footnotes issues further but would appreciate help. En dashes for ranges: WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 14:24, 5 June 2009 (UTC) Thanks now got the typo & I hope...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Indiana/archive1
Selasa, 2025-09-02 17:09:18

the issues. Charles Edward 22:05, 29 May 2008 (UTC) MOS issues Per WP:MOSDASH, use ndash instead of a hyphen for date ranges (and it should be spaced...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/January 2011
Senin, 2011-01-31 10:55:19

long sentence. Fixed.XavierGreen (talk) 02:30, 11 January 2011 (UTC) WP:MOSDASH: 400–500 unspaced. Done.XavierGreen (talk) 02:30, 11 January 2011 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cabbage/archive1
Rabu, 2022-04-20 09:55:05

(UTC) The "Medicinal lore" section uses an unspaced en dash, where WP:MOSDASH recommends either a spaced en dash or an unspaced em dash. Now unspaced...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/January 2010
Senin, 2020-02-03 23:45:46

The year range should have an unspaced en dash in the first one (see MOSDASH). I've boosted the px size of the Baker Street excerpt below, but the text...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/February 2008
Minggu, 2020-01-05 09:31:32

shouldn't be bolded here. (same for The Haymarket Ioera House) See WP:MOSDASH; year ranges should be separated by an unspaced ndash; Doesn't this indicate...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/May 2008
Jumat, 2008-05-30 10:35:31

2008 (UTC) Endash issue now appears to be resolved in accordance with WP:MOSDASH. Of note, endashes are properly used between two dates, (eg., 1509–1512)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/December 2007
Senin, 2009-10-12 23:53:12

that the third para is choppy and will rewrite Modified to comply with WP:MOSDASH The Riverina is indeed arid in parts; "Rainfall levels in the Riverina...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/June 2008
Kamis, 2016-03-17 15:39:11

throughout. Gary King (talk) 06:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC) Comments Per WP:MOSDASH, don't offset quotes of less than 4 lines - there is a shorter one in the...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2009
Senin, 2009-08-31 05:43:41

convoys"—en dash because it's motion from one to the other. Please see WP:MOSDASH and/or these easy exercises. Tony (talk) 13:27, 7 August 2009 (UTC) Done...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Roman Catholic Church/archive3
Jumat, 2024-10-18 01:14:04

(UTC) Still not fixed. Karanacs (talk) 17:07, 15 May 2008 (UTC) Per WP:MOSDASH, need to use ndashes instead of a hyphen for page ranges in references...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/April 2011
Sabtu, 2011-04-16 08:20:51

changed to hyphens for consistency now though every time I seem to read WP:MOSDASH it is the subject of an edit war so I never really know where to stand...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/September 2013
Sabtu, 2013-09-28 21:33:31

{{spaced ndash}} to ensure correct linewrap handling, as suggested at WP:MOSDASH. (This is not a requirement for my support, at all, but it's a good idea...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/March 2009
Selasa, 2009-03-31 22:55:00

stubs for the red links (no big deal, though)? "north–south", etc. (see WP:MOSDASH. "7", then "sixty-eight"? See MOSNUM. —Preceding unsigned comment added...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2018
Kamis, 2018-08-30 04:20:00

load, and that he might have taken those positions to settle down. WP:MOSDASH says no spaced eM dashes. The choice for interrupting dashes is closed...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/December 2010
Jumat, 2010-12-31 05:39:05

from in front of an em dash in the "Process principle" section, per WP:MOSDASH. There's a parenthesis just before the em dash, giving other words for...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/October 2013
Senin, 2023-05-08 04:29:09

(UTC) The "Medicinal lore" section uses an unspaced en dash, where WP:MOSDASH recommends either a spaced en dash or an unspaced em dash. Now unspaced...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/February 2019
Jumat, 2019-03-01 05:48:49

Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:21, 30 January 2019 (UTC) I'm not a MOSDASH expert, but I think it should be May–June 1929. No, whilst the en dash...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/May 2011
Selasa, 2011-05-31 04:42:21

02:59, 16 April 2011 (UTC) Source review I believe today's edition of WP:MOSDASH calls for unspaced endashes between months of the same year Be consistent...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/February 2010
Senin, 2010-03-01 03:21:13

people in order to form a more perfect union.) 07:51, 31 January 2010 (UTC) MOSDASH: unspaced en dash please. Done.Mitch32(We the people in order to form a...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/September 2018
Senin, 2018-10-01 06:44:48

hyphen: "7 to 9 centimetres per year (2.8 to 3.5 in/year)". Look up WP:MOSDASH. "A depression, whose margin is cut by landslide scars, cuts into the basement...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/2009
Rabu, 2011-09-07 03:00:14

02:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC) Comments Last sentence of lead - watch WP:MOSDASH. "street is divided into three-lane north and south bound sections" - rephrase...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/May 2008
Minggu, 2019-12-15 06:46:26

compound, as in "cost versus benefit", so an en dash was required per WP:MOSDASH. I'm not sure as to the image issue; I'll have someone with a different...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/April 2008
Jumat, 2017-02-17 05:00:33

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:54, 27 April 2008 (UTC) I think I've now resolved all MOSDASH issues. I added a few missing publishers, dates, and accessdates. I got...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/March 2019
Minggu, 2019-03-31 13:57:02

introduced: looks like you're using spaced em dashes, which are forbidden by MOSDASH: it has to be spaced en dashes or unspaced em dashes. A pity, as I like...

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Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/July 2011
Senin, 2011-08-01 10:53:05

in"—the employment of. And why the parentheses? Done. Spaced em dashes (see MOSDASH). Replaced with spaced en dashes throughout the article. Overlinked: e...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/2008
Jumat, 2010-08-27 13:09:45

key for it. Its use is mandated by Wikipedia's 'Manual of Style' at WP:MOSDASH. The ndash is required for "disjunction" (where it is used in "ranges"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/September 2009
Minggu, 2009-09-27 08:18:22

featured article. JKBrooks85 (talk) 08:21, 26 August 2009 (UTC) Please see WP:MOSDASH, indeed the MilHist style guide, for the spacing of en dashes in date ranges...

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Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/March 2011
Kamis, 2011-03-31 12:50:13

and must. En dash for one year range, hyphen for another. Please see WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 09:56, 16 March 2011 (UTC) He must have made the arrangement...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/November 2008
Minggu, 2008-11-30 07:36:13

Do you need to add "at the time"? En dash for scores (12–2); please see MOSDASH. I haven't read further than the lead; the prose looks passable thus far...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/March 2010
Rabu, 2010-03-31 00:36:53

March 2010 (UTC) En dash spacing is wrong in the infobox: please see WP:MOSDASH. Somebody changed that already. --Mcorazao (talk) 06:36, 22 March 2010...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/July 2009
Minggu, 2009-08-30 06:36:28

Thus, January 26 – February 5, 1956 would be the correct format, per WP:MOSDASH. "A total of 32 nations participated in the Games... " - Tighten to "Thirty-two...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/2013
Senin, 2014-01-06 07:04:00

east–west. I have fixed it myself, but for future reference, according to WP:MOSDASH, an en dash is used any time two terms that are different have a dash between...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/May 2016
Selasa, 2016-05-31 16:15:43

length of something (e.g. forty-year, fifty-year, etc.) Please adhere to WP:MOSDASH. 913–927 should be written 913–27, and this rule for indicating dates (whether...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/March 2010
Sabtu, 2010-05-01 06:57:53

taken care of before going to FAC. Date ranges need En dashes, per WP:MOSDASH. Intro "The Exploration of Io, one of Jupiter's..." — "exploration" should...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/April 2010
Selasa, 2010-04-27 21:32:29

(talk) 15:21, 14 March 2010 (UTC) Please note the en dashes I've put in. WP:MOSDASH also says not to write "From 1927–1929". How else should I write it? --Kumioko...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/October 2008
Kamis, 2016-02-11 09:33:14

dates, dates like "July 14 – 16" should be: "July 14–16". Actually, per WP:MOSDASH, items with a space within either or both of them should contain an enspaced...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/August 2009
Senin, 2019-02-18 04:50:49

together as one word. Fixed. "8—1 decision" – an en dash, please. See WP:MOSDASH. Fixed. These stupid dashes will be the death of me. :) Consider using...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/February 2008
Senin, 2008-10-13 11:26:50

then the next paragraph goes back to talking about him at age 5. SEE WP:MOSDASH for when to use hyphens, ndashes, and mdashes; the article does not appear...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/November 2009
Jumat, 2010-01-01 23:05:59

"while" and "among". Spaced hyphens are a rare breed. WP:HYPHEN and WP:MOSDASH have details. I replaced them with em dashes but might have missed a few...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/March 2009
Rabu, 2020-02-12 19:51:12

usage at all; they supply water. En dash required for the pipeline. See WP:MOSDASH. You know I hate "various". I suppose we don't know how many ... Tony (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/September 2009
Jumat, 2009-10-30 06:33:31

ranges should have an En dash between them, instead of hyphens, per WP:MOSDASH Each entry in the "Remarks" column should begin with a capital letter....

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/September 2008
Rabu, 2008-10-01 05:46:07

work on maybe including a full state map in a corner for reference. WP:MOSDASH, I don't see the issue. If it is because I-15 isnt I–15, take it up with...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/December 2008
Senin, 2008-12-29 12:24:36

requires that page ranges be separated with an ndash, not a hyphen. (see WP:MOSDASH) To my eyes all the page ranges in the references look wrong what makes...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/November 2015
Selasa, 2015-11-24 18:29:00

definitely used, it needs to be a spaced endash or unspaced emdash, per WP:MOSDASH. Be careful with authors vs. editors, especially for large reference works...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/August 2008
Senin, 2008-09-01 04:05:23

WxGopher (talk) 01:42, 19 August 2008 (UTC) I'm fairly familiar with WP:MOSDASH, so I'll try to take a look at the hyphen usage within the next day. –Juliancolton...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/June 2008
Selasa, 2008-07-01 03:35:46

the issues. Charles Edward 22:05, 29 May 2008 (UTC) MOS issues Per WP:MOSDASH, use ndash instead of a hyphen for date ranges (and it should be spaced...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/March 2012
Kamis, 2012-04-05 11:00:40

thousand"—personal pref for "more than". You might like it better too? long-standing. MOSDASH: "Kansas City, Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas,". And there are a few boundaries...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/March 2011
Selasa, 2019-12-03 19:34:26

to fix it :( I think I've fixed the template so it now complies with WP:MOSDASH. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC) — Novice7 (talk) 04:05...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/May 2010
Jumat, 2010-05-28 06:54:15

needs a very good reason to be linked. Please see WP:OVERLINK. See also WP:MOSDASH concerning page and year ranges. I've run the script through it. Does "airline"...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/June 2009
Senin, 2020-12-21 00:27:10

(UTC) Probably a hyphen is better for -mo, etc., not an en dash. See WP:MOSDASH and see what you think. Changed. A bot went through and made mass changes...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/December 2009
Jumat, 2020-11-27 01:44:43

acceptable style for encyclopedia writing (plus, even I don't know WP:MOSDASH, this prolly runs afoul o' that.) I would just change it over to "Said...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/2009/Promoted
Minggu, 2024-09-29 15:29:18

should either use unspaced emdashes (preferred) or spaced endashes (see WP:MOSDASH). Done. Not me [8] Ryan4314 (talk) 10:35, 17 September 2009 (UTC) "When...

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Wikipedia:Peer review/May 2013
Sabtu, 2014-01-11 18:57:43

minor and not essential for GA, but dashes should be consistent; see WP:MOSDASH. Right now, hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes are used with no consistency...

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