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This Manual of Style (MoS or MOS) is the style manual for all English Wikipedia articles (though provisions related to accessibility apply across the entire project, not just to articles). This primary page is supported by further detail pages , which are cross-referenced here and listed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents .
This is a descriptive directory of the pages which make up the Wikipedia Manual of Style. It includes only current guidelines , not proposals or historical pages, nor pages that now redirect outside the Manual of Style (e.g. WikiProjects' style-advice essays ).
This guideline is a part of the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus .
Italicize names of books, films, TV series, music albums, paintings, and ships—but not short works like songs or poems, which should be in quotation marks. Place a full stop (a period) or a comma before a closing quotation mark if it belongs as part of the quoted material ( She said, "I'm feeling carefree . " ); otherwise, put it after ( The ...
On 13 July 2021, the Book namespace was uninstalled from the English Wikipedia. All books were moved to subpages of Wikipedia:Books/archive at the end of June where they remained for a month to allow users to keep books in userspace and allow for refunds after namespace deletion. On 3 August 2021, all books were deleted.
The four most frequently used style guides for English are also those that are the main bases of our own MoS. These are The Chicago Manual of Style (often called Chicago or CMoS) and Garner's Modern English Usage, for American and to some extent Canadian English; and New Hart's Rules and Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage for British English, and Commonwealth English more broadly.
(See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Style guides on other Wikimedia projects.) If you use or have used a style guide of a university or a publishing company, then you can compare its guidelines with the guidelines for English Wikipedia.
The logical style is used in most countries as standard, [citation needed] and is becoming more popular in America too, although most Americans still use the aesthetic style. The logical style is to include the mark of punctuation inside the quotation marks only if the sense of the mark of punctuation is part of the quotation.