1941 and 1943 Shortcuts MOS:DASHMOS:DASH MOS:EMDASHMOS:EMDASH MOS:ENDASHMOS:ENDASH MOS:HYPHENMOS:HYPHEN MOS:MDASHMOS:MDASH MOS:NDASHMOS:NDASH The hyphen...

problems with the MOS alone, not to mention the dozens of complex words still remaining in the article. I suggest we either try to use the MOS (by heavy suggestion...

 Delete. Content not merged because it's minimal and there's no filmography at Mos Def --Auntof6 (talk) 04:24, 5 March 2022 (UTC) Super Mr. Superhero (edit...

to  Delete. WP:SOFTDELETE Ternera (talk) 13:03, 2 October 2025 (UTC) TwinMOS Technologies (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

7 March 2009 (UTC) I´ll help with all article improvements, especially MOS, reference formatting, spelling, grammar. Also happy to assess article´s...

deletion under any criteria. The title of the page should be correct (per WP:MOS). The content of the page should be wikified to a certain extent. This includes...

article has little to no encyclopedic information. I hope the linked titles (MOS, anyone?) do not link to "Legal status of tatoooing in ...". Anyway, I guess...

consensus is encapsulated in the MOS. If we don't want to follow that part of the MOS, why bother following any of the MOS? The Rambling Man (talk) 18:26...

route here. @Closing admin: If the article is kept, please fix it per WP:MOS. Barras talk 14:10, 2 April 2026 (UTC) Please discuss this request below...

as there doesn't appear to be another movie called Plaque and we have WP:MOS#Movies. --Ferien (talk) 17:28, 19 December 2021 (UTC) Plaque (Iranian film)...

referring to en.wiki's MOS. The MOS should be for all editors, and for a simple english speaker, it would be difficult to comprehend the MOS on en. I agree with...

been doing a good job so far. I feel that you might need to read over WP:MOS a bit. You have been notified about your spelling a few times. It appears...

for RfD." That is the case here. Both complexity and nonconformity to the MOS can be fixed. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:11, 15 December 2024 (UTC)  Keep I'd argue...

I believe we should follow the last paragraph of MOS Section 2 as it's already written into the MOS and hasn't caused any issues. The community will just...

// // Fix hyphens, dashes, and minus signs per [[MOS:DASH]]. // // See talk page for instructions. // // The user can disable these conversions by putting...

April 2024 (UTC)  Comment: I have reworked the article to be inline with our MOS (quickly and via phone) so pardon any mistakes. Thanks, and be well! - PDLTalk...

link is correct. However, concerns aplenty: The title name should not be WP:MOS compliant as this is a pinyin name for the actor which is OR, the correct...

(UTC)  Comment: I have wikified and gotten the article in line with our MOS. chris†ianrocker90 23:11, 24 April 2011 (UTC) Keep Not all weather phenomena...

changes) 20:09, 13 August 2010 (UTC) It's in our Manual of Style: Wikipedia:MOS#Linking_to_other_websites. Either way (talk) 20:23, 13 August 2010 (UTC)...

(film) article names. -- Creol(talk) 16:54, 18 October 2007 (UTC) Note: WP:MOS lists title (film) as the proper style. The subject probably should be discussed...

WP:NACTOR. @Closing admin, if kept, please make sure to fix the article per WP:MOS. Barras talk 20:23, 4 April 2026 (UTC) Please discuss this request below...

WP:NACTOR. @Closing admin, if kept, please make sure to fix the article per WP:MOS. Barras talk 20:23, 4 April 2026 (UTC) Please discuss this request below...

WP:MUSICBIO. @Closing admin, if kept, please make sure to fix the article per WP:MOS. Barras talk 20:24, 4 April 2026 (UTC) Please discuss this request below...

also think that the style of the articles needs some improvement (see WP:MOS) and will try to be doing some style edits on the articles. Jonas D. Rand...

a section header, and that this should be reflected in our version of WP:MOS. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  17:44, 9 May 2016 (UTC) Generally the idea is to use the...

Then that should settle the matter then. We should keep to the MoS (or at least until the MoS is changed). Synergy 04:58, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Well not really...

formalization of the change, as far as I can tell, was limited to this diff in MOS. There has been no consensus in this thread to switch to the use of "film"...

(UTC) I'd like to remind our editors that Wikipedia has a manual of style (MOS). It's at Wikipedia:Manual of Style. It contains information about how different...

respectful, and simpler, to describe people who have died by suicide (see w:en:MOS:SUICIDE.) --Ferien (talk) 17:08, 9 October 2024 (UTC) Please discuss this...

state). --Ferien (talk) 16:22, 18 June 2021 (UTC) We have a MOS entry for this specific case en:MOS:USA. Granted its more for articles than category names...

dealt with how to edit/how to write Simple English (Archiving a talk page, MoS) and are not realy needed for fast access to someone patroling new changes...

months?) is immature. Work to articles is alright, but often violates WP:MOS and there are IW's missing and broken templates left in. You ask other users...

coordinates because of the way the maps are laid out for pinpointing. I looked at MoS and couldn’t seem to find it or my eyes are getting worse and I didn’t see...

is large enough, therefore I put this as a "long term" goal. Who decides MOS rules here? Again with my first response, banners are only allowed if the...

outstanding comments about the article, a lot of them breaches of the WP:MOS (the misuse or lack of hyphens where appropriate, problems with the references...

from the quality and they never appear to learn anything with regards to MOS, referencing etc. FSM Noodly? 19:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC) As I have previously...

A consensus was reached, saying film is more standard due to WP:MOS. But, the MoS says movie is standard, so go with that. Hope that helps. --Derpdart56...

mark a page as patrolled: The title of the page should be correct (per WP:MOS) The content of the page should be wikified to a certain extent. This includes...

here —Belwine (talk) 16:43, 14 March 2021 (UTC) I think you need to read MOS:PHIL When to use city as part of the city name which explains why Iloilo...

be written in plain simple english. You can create a heading following WP:MOS#Other page sections and create the link to the Chinese article. Also please...

it. (And if we did create WP:ENGVAR, what about the other hundred or so MOS guidelines?) –Juliancolton | Talk 02:40, 16 April 2009 (UTC) I believe we...

a bad idea. Probably not take more than two hours to expand a stub to WP:MOS standards with proper WP:RS for WP:V. I could see it helping. fr33kman talk...

the article is properly wikified and referenced. Perhaps a note about WP:MOS (on user talk) is in order? Chenzw  Talk  04:36, 20 September 2012 (UTC)...

(UTC) Again, I don't want to go nomination-crazy here, but this article has MOS-fails, red links, dead links, a plethora of spammy "other websites", a template...

en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies. My main interest on enwiki was MOS and I was quite pleased to participate in creating the Simplified Manual...

were also issues to do with format and citations too, which are not in the MOS, but came up in GA/VGA discussions. Some of these need to be included. We...

(media) that interests me, I spent some time wikifying the page mainly with MOS section headings, removing embedded interwiki links to EN WP, and for one...

we may want to move the page to a more appropriate name to better fit our MoS.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 04:01, 27 February 2016 (UTC) Do you have any particular...

probably does not need. --Eptalon (talk) 13:23, 17 February 2018 (UTC) The MOS says no links in headings. I think it's an accessibility issue. --Auntof6...

confusion of tenses or word order). Would it be an idea to either expand the WP:MOS with some guides on how to avoid these common mistakes, or maybe visibly...

Might be worth going through the edits as well as there seems to be some MOS concerns. Thanks-BRP ever 12:21, 24 November 2021 (UTC) @BRPever Thanks....

creation as there are very few set, hard rules on the layout, however, the MOS dictates where things go and it is complicated and very long. I am looking...

common sense. -DJSasso (talk) 14:47, 29 May 2019 (UTC) Documented in en:WP:MOS/Linking#Interwiki links: "To avoid reader confusion, inline interlanguage...

that help users in their editing. For example, what would we do without MOS? (3) If a user does not follow policy after being warned (this is assuming...

you should know that it was renamed Template:History of video games per WP:MOS. Beside that, what do you mean by "bundled up"? Do you mean that it starts...

decimals. Osiris (talk) 15:34, 12 July 2012 (UTC) Ah! I was looking at WP:MOS (simple doesn't have MOSNUM) - This is the section btw; en:Wikipedia:MOSNUM#Delimiting_...

consistent. -- *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 09:48, 31 March 2022 (UTC) enWP has a MOS guideline for precisely this scenario. I think it addresses your question...

I think it should be called the plain english Wikipedia. This is because the english in it isn't like "D is for dog" but it is easy to understand, unlike...

specific guideline with regards to lists on Simple, we default to the English MOS at en:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists#Development which states "However,...

recreated it. Osiris (talk) 14:20, 1 January 2012 (UTC) I have read the MOS at both Simple English and En Wikipedia, but I am still unsure. They say...

GoblinBot2 on a slow interval to work through pages We just make a notice on our MoS or whatever, saying that this is the new name for it. People then just update...

pages or images. The main manual is the "Wikipedia:Manual of Style" (WP:MOS), with another document describing typical article-format, under "WP:Guide...

of categories this user has created, we need to rectify them to meet to MOS. For instance, Category:Mountain Passes of Pakistan should be Categeory:Mountain...

MOS that says how many sentences are required for a section? The Rambling Man (talk) 17:37, 23 September 2009 (UTC) There isn't anything in our MoS,...

wiki". Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:52, 26 May 2013 (UTC) I am not sure what MOS says, but a link which works like cats ([[cat]]s) is also a valid way of...

AWB access to fix some spelling errors, and get rid of contractions per WP:MOS. I noticed it's pretty flagrant, and want to fix some of it. Respectfully...

Regarding the third and fourth points above, do we have clear guidance from the MOS for a preferred style? As to the rest, perhaps it's time to craft some guidelines...

pages" should be changed to "Related pages" on all articles using AWB, per WP:MOS. LilyKitty, thanks for all your work here, and you may want to take note...

but his contributions here are legitimate and show an understanding of our MOS. We could try the Benniguy-style rules? Any sign of puppettry or vandalism...

What have I done? 19:27, 6 June 2021 (UTC) For some reason, when I posted a mos warning level 1 on a users talk page, the page name in the warning was malformed...

Warriors series". Ian keeps reverting my edits to his articles when they have MoS "violations" but then he keeps reverting it until we hit 3RR. --SEPTActaMTA8235...

like New Editors to Know, Wikipedia:Basic English combined wordlist, WP:MOS, and other related rule pages) I would then encourage them to practice editing/formatting...

include Moscow and Chernobyl, but also some others too. Given them a lev 4 MoS warning as I think this is their third IP address that has been doing this...

came from), not the article itself (it needs to be there too, but thats an MoS issue, not a GFDL issue). Synergy 22:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC) See {{Enwp...

this. Is it alright to add a coat of arms just like that? I checked the MoS on EN but can't seem to find anything about it. They only mentioned flags...

wonder when people are going to stop holding this against me? Also Gwib, the MOS issue you pointed out, was over 2 1/2 months ago, when can that be forgotten...

websites is a big no-no. Pmlineditor ∞ 09:34, 4 February 2010 (UTC) Not ready. MOS issues (en dash, bare URLs), captions appear to be written in pidgin English...

confidently. obentomusubi 07:40, 2 March 2009 (UTC) Needs doZens more refs. Many MOS breaches and some POV which need to be fixed. Also needs to be more prose...

and there's a comma missing in the article there!), and as per my normal MOS concerns, avoid contractions, use words for numbers less than ten etc. The...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Repeated violations of MoS (using HTML tags), poor writing, grammar, uncategorized, seems even less...

straightforward, or sometimes stereotyped as stubborn and uncultured." Numerous MoS breaches. Complex words such as "dialect" and "distinctively". –Juliancolton...

be found at phab:T363538#10134219. The follow pages were moved: MOS: was moved to MOS:T363538/ (You can find these with https://simple.wikipedia...

for VGA e.g. Middle East, vibration, horsehair, Stephane Grappelli  Fixed MOS is complied with: Headings shouldn't start with "The..."  Fixed We don't...

after it's been promoted though, to change some of the more German MoS to English MoS. --Gwib -(talk)- 17:59, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Weak oppose - I'm...

have a caption. Russell Martin's source needs fixing. There are many WP:MOS problems (e.g. using a hyphen instead of an en-dash for page ranges in the...

(UTC) Strongly oppose - gramatical errors, ambiguity, poor word choices, MoS issues .. Most of them do not scream out, but the constant barrage of little...

need to be sorted under our current criteria. I would also encourage a WP:MOS check - citations after punctuation, correct use of full stops in incomplete...

describe it as such does not make it the campaign's name. Also highlighting en:MOS:MIL and en:WP:MILNG as the guidance to refer to for such topics, and I am...

22:56, 13 February 2010 (UTC) We shouldn't link dates (since we follow en MOS unless otherwise prescribed here specifically) so I've undone your edit....

00:13, 10 October 2011 (UTC) I don't need to recite every aspect of the MOS and deletion criteria, or for that matter repeat all of the arguments made...

SEWP, what's wrong with "is one of the greatest"?  Fixed —Clementina talk MOS issues: separate number ranges with an en-dash, not a hyphen for example...

improvement and certainly not good numbers. There are (still) issues with MoS and creation of unwikified articles. When people say "Try again later", they...

them to Wikidata, attempting to categorize them, and possibly doing a CE/MOS fix. [2] Another time before that I was told to be careful with using the...

formatting also needs to be refined. You can also read following pages: WP:MOS, WP:How to write Simple English pages. I hope this helps :). BZPN (talk)...

Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:47, 25 April 2011 (UTC) Well we should be basing most of our MOS on en.wiki. An article with five short paras as a lead is inappropriate....

could be useful for novices or IP editors who don't have a clue about the MoS and are creating really short articles. Orashmatash 08:34, 21 October 2011...

and outside links. We use related pages and other websites. Please read MOS again in depth, this can't be accepted as normal article, let alone GA. It's...

them are scientific), and lots of sentences are unreferenced or doesn't fit MOS. Keep up the good work, however. :) Kindly, —Classical Esthertalk 07:13,...

articles created from you that do not have the above concerns and also follow MOS guidelines for article structure and section naming. One thing I did LOVE...

good idea to follow enWP. (WP:FOLLOW) Our MOS does not provide guidance on this subject. The enWP guideline MOS:TMRULES says Follow standard English text...

on en and WP:MOS Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 01:49, 25 March 2025 (UTC) "Based on en": We don't have to match enwiki. WP:MOS: what provision of MOS? In any case...

lead with no references, citations, sources, or external links. Very poor MoS. I also spot several red links. This article needs major improvements for...

information, I did not leave any major aspects out of the article per WP:MoS. I believe the article is in good shape but I would like other editors opinions...

actually being a full sentence. There are changes that need to be made per WP:MOS as well such as placing the references after a period, not between the last...

12 or less, so it's best to avoid the all-numeric formats where possible. MOS:DATE gives examples where the month is spelled out, and also gives guidance...

articles created from you that do not have the above concerns and also follow MOS guidelines for article structure and section naming. One thing I did LOVE...

changed the possessive format from Rogers' to Rogers's because that's what en:MOS:POSS says. However, it doesn't match with the name of his show. Lights and...

(UTC) So there is no actual opinions. Neither actually says anything. Our MoS says to link if you think is is a good idea so anyone can link any date anywhere...

restoring version of the page that does not comply with simplewiki rules (MOS, BE, VER etc.), adding unsourced information. BZPN (talk) 21:31, 26 April...

02:54, 4 October 2025 (UTC) It is my view at this time that, mostly, en:MOS:OL shouldn't apply on this wiki. For readers using simple, links for things...

most <something>", which generally requires some form of attribution per en:MOS:QUOTEPOV, and that editors need to be careful to not express that statement...

better conformed to Wikipedia's manual of style (specifically en:MOS:CAPS and en:MOS:JOBTITLES). This format would also be in keeping with similar articles...

24 February 2024 (UTC) I have started a discussion on the talk page of WP:MOS. Please participate by joining the discussion here. Thanks - PDLTalk to me...

21:02, 2 June 2024 (UTC) Vandalism and editors refusing to comply with the MOS. Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 10:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC) done, one month, autoconfirmed...

is distributing possible original research at this page while ignoring WP:MOS, depending on a paper which cites English Wikipedia, YouTube etc. I count...

revert them one by one. The problems I’ve seen with this IP: Not following WP:MOS in relation to English use (they keep using UK instead of US on US articles)...

namespace? They're repeatedly inserting all caps section headers, after 4 MOS warnings. They must have no clue that their talk page exists, as there has...

pattern of changing "colour" to "color" across many articles, which is against MOS:ENGVAR. Replacing links to "https://www.mathsisfun.com" with "http://www...

wikilinks, and MTC needs to be stated with its full name, (according to MOS:ABBR). ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 22:01, 8 April 2025 (UTC) I've started work on the references...

Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:47, 22 November 2024 (UTC) @Reatom2: See MOS:DATEFORMAT for the acceptable date formats you can use here. If the day is...

guideline on this wiki, I would say that we should say somewhere in the MOS to always use the neuter pronouns. Ships break the general rule of English...

generally written in advanced English, thus being inconsistent with WP:VER, WP:MOS, and WP:COMPLEX, among others. In that case, I propose shortening it to a...

Not only are such terms not simple, they are not encyclopedic. There is en:MOS:EUPHEMISM, which our version of that page doesn't have. -- Auntof6 (talk)...

to be set up which are like what is the page with our policies on it, our MOS, etc. pretty much everything that a new user will need to have access to...

haven't heard the term. I don't think there is any specific wording in our own MOS that would cover this, however I think following EN would be correct in this...

deleted. Some other helpful articles to help you get started are WP:HOW and WP:MOS. InfernoGaming46 (IG46) (talk / changes) 18:39, 25 May 2023 (UTC) @Weng8:...

there. But if you want something different, you can propose a change to the MOS. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:41, 15 August 2023 (UTC) A stub here and a stub on the...

Regarding anniversaries of the creation of certain media, cultural property, and organizations, I do not see them as relevant enough to include in the...

categories are just copied from enwiki or none, violate WP:CATGENDER, WP:MOS (such as film vs movie) They write the "Other websites" section as "Other...

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