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  2. Wikipedia:Styletips/33 - Wikipedia

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    Hyphens can avoid ambiguity. A hyphen can help to disambiguate (little-celebrated paintings is not a reference to little paintings, in which case avoid little ...

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

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    Avoid comma splices. Picture captions should not end in a full stop (a period) unless they are complete sentences. Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home). A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence.

  4. Wikipedia:Styletips - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Styletips/33 – Hyphens can avoid ambiguity; Wikipedia:Styletips/34 – Hanging hyphens; Block quotes. Use quotation marks or block quotes (not both) to ...

  5. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    9.9.2.3 Instead of a hyphen, ... may be glossed to prevent confusion, for example, the trunk ... as appropriate, to avoid ambiguity as to whether the link was ...

  7. Wikipedia : Simplified Manual of Style

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    A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence. Use an en dash (–) with   before and a space after; or use an em dash (—) without spaces. See Wikipedia:How to make dashes. Avoid using two hyphens (--) to make a dash; and avoid using a hyphen for a minus sign. read ...

  8. Wikipedia:Hyphens and dashes - Wikipedia

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    to avoid double vowels, such as "semi-independent" when writing out fractions like "one-third" or "three-fifths" In some styles, minus signs are represented using an en dash instead of a minus sign or a hyphen. This is not done in Wikipedia. In math formulas a hyphen-minus codes for a minus sign, but in text − produces the minus sign (see ...

  9. Wikipedia:Tips - Wikipedia

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    Hanging hyphens Hyphens can avoid ambiguity Including Instructional and presumptuous language Italics for emphasis No hyphen after -ly adverbs No initial the or a in article and section titles Number signs Overlinking Percentage ranges Pluralizing abbreviations Points and spaces in abbreviations Quotations within quotations