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 #wikia, #wikia-de, #wikiversity ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] Techs,I'd like a quick opinion on whether certain pre-processingwhenediting is likel > > 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" > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
