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This is the Styletips project, which gives useful advice to editors on writing style and formatting in bite-size chunks from the Manual of Style and related pages. For the complete schedule of Styletips, see below.

Please place suggestions on the Talk page. The objective is to keep the focus of each tip narrow and to express it simply and briefly.

Another styletip ... Quotations: allowable typographical changes Although the requirement of minimal change in direct quotations is strict, a few purely typographical elements of quoted text should be conformed to English Wikipedia's conventions without comment. These include the following: Use the style chosen for the article: unspaced em dash or spaced en dash. Set apostrophes and quotation marks straight, not curly. Remove spaces before punctuation such as periods, colons, and %. When integrating the quotation into the grammar of a larger sentence, downcase the first letter of a quotation that is in upper case purely because it starts a sentence in the source (It turned out to be true that "a penny saved is a penny earned"). But generally preserve bold and italic face, and the variety of English. Read more ... Add this to your user page by typing in {{Styletips}}

MoS related

• Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style – an overview of commonly used style guidelines.
• Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule – a reading schedule designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Manual of Style

General formatting

• Wikipedia:Tips – overview page where you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels.
• Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a page that provides information on the basics needed to edit Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia:Writing better articles – guidance on how to improve articles
• Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts – summaries of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in a bullet-point format
• Help:Cheatsheet – a page that provides the most commonly used wiki markup