[Wikia-l] Techs, I'd like a quick opinion on whether certain pre-processingwhenediting is likel

[Dan Kindsvater]

In the online (15th ed.) Chicago Manual of Style (comes right up on a google 
search, and they give a free one-month subscription, btw), it's 7.42 and 
7.43.

I'm with everyone here.  I don't think the poor buggers have a chance in 
WP:VP because they are all in favor of markup creep, but we'll see.

Dan
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Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] Techs,I'd like a quick opinion on whether certain 
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>
> Randy Kramer wrote:
>>    * Is that scheme of (not) wrapping a universal standard?  (I know 
>> Strunk
>> and White is not the right resource, but is it documented in some similar
>> resource--I ask because I've never seen it.)
>
> Without getting into a postmodernist discussion of whether or not a 
> universal
> standard can be defined in the first place, the citation you are looking 
> for is
> _Chicago Manual of Style_ (13th ed.), sections 6.53 - 6.56:
>  "Abbreviations used with numerals should not be separated from the 
> numerals"
>  "An enumerating letter or number . . . preferably should not be separated
> from the beginning of what follows it"
>  "Avoid breaking before a numeral adjective following a personal name"
> Etc.
>
> My own opinion is that the nonbreaking spaces should be inserted by 
> MediaWiki
> (no markup), just as leading colons are converted into tabs.  Then the 
> hardcore
> editors could override it with the existing "nowiki" tag.  I write code 
> for a
> living and don't really notice an extra "nbsp" here and there, but I know 
> that
> I am in the minority there, and consequently I think we should err on the 
> side
> of an easy-to-read edit window, as the guy from the Marvel Comics wiki 
> said.
> The central wikia brags about the enormous length of Special:Listusers, 
> but
> actually the overwhelming majority of those people make three edits and 
> then
> disappear.  That needs to stop.
>
>
>  --- "Ryan W"
>
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