finiki:Manual of Style
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The Manual of Style (often abbreviated MoS or MOS) is a style guide for all finiki articles. This page covers certain topics (such as punctuation) in full, and presents the key points of others. MOS subpages provide detailed guidance on particular topics or subject areas.
MOS presents finiki's house style, to help editors produce articles with consistent, clear, and precise language, layout, and formatting. The goal is to make the content easier and more intuitive to use. Consistency in language, style, and formatting promotes clarity and cohesion. Writing should be clear and concise. Plain English works best: avoid ambiguity, jargon, and vague or unnecessarily complex wording.
Style and formatting choices should be consistent within an article, though not necessarily throughout finiki as a whole. Where MOS makes provision for more than one style option, editors should not change an article from one of those options to another without a substantial reason. Revert-warring over optional styles is unacceptable. If discussion cannot determine which style to use in an article, defer to the style used by the first major contributor.
Useless otherwise noted, finiki adopts Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
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