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  2. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 79

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    Example: Kathleen met her husband on December 5, 2003, in Mill Valley, California."); University of Texas Style Guide ("When a phrase is used with a month, date and year, set both the date and year off with commas."); University of Minnesota Style Manual ("Use commas around the year when it follows a specific date . . . . The committee agreed ...

  3. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 120

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    The only relevant point: correct American style dates use a comma both before and after the year. - Nunh-huh 17:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC) The only "obsession" - if we are going to use that sort of language - appears to be yours, on the topic of American style dates. Both the original questioner and I were discussing the issue of commas after ...

  4. Delimiter-separated values - Wikipedia

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    This prevents the comma in the actual field value (Bloggs, Fred; Doe, Jane; etc.) from being interpreted as a field separator. This necessitates a way to " escape " the field wrapper itself, in this case the double quote; it is customary to double the double quotes actually contained in a field as with those surrounding "Hank".

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Terms likely to go out of date include best known for, holds the record for, etc. [b] For current and future events, use phrases such as as of January 2025 or since the beginning of 2025 to signal the time-dependence of the information; use the template {} (or {}) in conjunction.

  6. Comma-separated values - Wikipedia

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    Comma-separated values (CSV) is a text file format that uses commas to separate values, and newlines to separate records. A CSV file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text , where each line of the file typically represents one data record .

  7. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    All examples use example date 2021-03-31 / 2021 March 31 / 31 March 2021 / March 31, 2021 – except where a single-digit day is illustrated. Basic components of a calendar date for the most common calendar systems: D – day; M – month; Y – year; Specific formats for the basic components: yy – two-digit year, e.g. 24; yyyy – four-digit ...

  8. Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style/5 - Wikipedia

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    Please do so irrespective of any rules associated with the variety of English in use. The serial comma (for example the comma before and in "ham, chips, and eggs") is optional; be sensitive to possible ambiguity arising from thoughtless use or thoughtless avoidance, and be consistent within a given article. Avoid comma splices.

  9. Microsoft Office XML formats - Wikipedia

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    Besides differences in the schema, there are several other differences between the earlier Office XML schema formats and Office Open XML. Whereas the data in Office Open XML documents is stored in multiple parts and compressed in a ZIP file conforming to the Open Packaging Conventions, Microsoft Office XML formats are stored as plain single monolithic XML files (making them quite large ...