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

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    A date can be given in any appropriate calendar, as long as it is (at the minimum) given in the Julian calendar or the Gregorian calendar or both, as described below. For example, an article on the early history of Islam may give dates in both Islamic and Julian calendars. Where a calendar other than the Julian or Gregorian is used, the article ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Article structure - Wikipedia

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    The narrative structure follows events in a chronological order, commonly utilized in feature writing and long-form journalism. [1] Example 1: A profile piece on a chef would start with their early life, follow their career development, and conclude with their current achievements. Example 2: In a historical feature article, the narrative ...

  5. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. November 4, 2024) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [2] and time in 12-hour notation (7:51 am). International date and time formats typically follow the ISO 8601 format (2024-11-04) for all-numeric dates, [3] write ...

  6. Chronology - Wikipedia

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    Chronology. Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, 'time'; and -λογία, -logia) [2] is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Consider, for example, the use of a timeline or sequence of events. It is also "the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events".

  7. News style - Wikipedia

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    News style, journalistic style, or news-writing style is the prose style used for news reporting in media, such as newspapers, radio and television. News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, when, where, and why (the Five Ws ) and also often how—at the opening of the article .

  8. Historiography - Wikipedia

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    The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom.(Jacob de Wit,1754)Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    The simplest example is someone who continued to reside in their country of origin: Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman; The second example is someone who emigrated as a child and continued to identify as a citizen of their adopted country: