User talk:Master Fredcerique/Layout Guide

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I don't want to cluter up the CT discussion area with these minor fixes, so I'm putting them here.

In the Manual of Style, the "-universe" part of both "in-universe" and "out-of-universe" is always lowercase; your layout guide has it uppercase if the "In" or "Out" is uppercase.

"in which era the subject of the article exists in" has one too many "in"s.

The American spelling of "canceled" has just one L.

The sentence "Spoiler tags on an article alerts a user to any major plot spoilers that come from new sources that are less than a month old" doesn't have subject/verb agreement (should be "Spoiler tags ... alert a user"), and is missing a period at the end. ["new" is also redundant in that sentence.]

The first word of the sentence "headings and subheadings are usually not required for very small articles" should be capitalized.

"from the right-side to the left-side" shouldn't have the hyphens.

Quotes should be included as-is, not "as-is" (i.e. the quotation marks around "as-is" serve no purpose). "Verbatim" would be the more conventional word.

"[sic] may be included": conventionally, "sic" is italicized but the surrounding brackets are not: [sic]

"used at the bottom of the article body when the article is too vague or brief, AND when there is clearly more information that can be added": All of your other bullet points are complete sentences, so this one should be as well. Also, the "and" should be emphasized via italics rather than all-caps.

"subsection" is spelled correctly in most places, but misspelled as "sub-section" a few times in the "Musical Theme Articles" box.

"a specific person, place thing, or idea" is missing a comma.

I haven't read the entire guide yet, but this is what I've spotted so far. Asithol 12:16, December 19, 2011 (UTC)