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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 .
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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.
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 ...
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The Manual of Style exists primarily to ensure a consistent reading experience for our audience, and secondarily to prevent and resolve recurrent disputes over style matters. It is an internal guideline for Wikipedia editing only. It is not a mandatory policy that editors must assiduously follow.
Upload it to the wiki at Special:Upload. See uploading images. On the file description page, add a short description of the image (e.g. "A book cover for NovelTitle."), and an image copyright tag: If the cover image is still under copyright, {{Non-free use rationale book cover}} and {{Non-free book cover}} should both be on the file description ...
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