User:Kvng/Incremental improvements
These minor changes improve consistency and maintainability of article source. I mark these edits minor unless the work also includes another substantial change. I try not to make edits that only include minor changes.
Short description
[edit]Add or improve
Export better description to WikiData (and edit for initial lowercase)
Tags
[edit]Add necessary tags
Remove resolved tags
Establish WP:ENGVAR, tag and create consistency
Acronyms
[edit]Link to the full description then define acronym parenthetically
- plastic optical fiber (POF)
- plastic optical fiber (POF)
- plastic optical fiber (POF)
Don't define an acronym if it is not used later in the article
- except if the term is widely known by its acronym
Links
[edit]Avoid back-to-back links (WP:SOB)
Do not WP:OVERLINK
Do not MOS:REPEATLINK
Piped links
[edit]Remove unnecessary pipes with User:Nardog/Unpipe
Do not use a redirect as the target in a piped link
Avoid using pipes for alternate terminology. Use a redirect or, better yet, change the terminology used in the source article to match the title of the target.
Avoid piped section links. Use redirects instead, if available.
Terms
[edit]MOS:TERM: Quotes are for things someone said. Use lower-case italics for technical terms.
Title
[edit]WP:LOWERCASE: Only use title case for proper nouns
MOS:ACROTITLE: Avoid acronyms in titles
Match title to first bold mention
Lead
[edit]MOS:BOLDSYN: Bold redirect targets
MOS:BOLDLINK: avoid links in bolded portion
Create redirects for listed alternate names
Headings
[edit]MOS:HEAD: Only use title case for proper nouns
MOS:NOBACKREF: Don't repeat article title as part of heading
MOS:SECTIONANCHOR: Format additional section anchors
Content order
[edit]See also
[edit]20em column formatting for large See also sections
Sort alphabetically
Avoid unnecessary redirects
- No redlinks
- No disambig links
- No repeats of links already in article or navigation templates
Move links to body
Notes
[edit]Move tangential material to Notes section with {{efn}} and {{notelist}}
Referencing
[edit]Convert external links to references
Combine repeated references
Endmatter
[edit]Double horizontal space before {{Stub}} templates
Remove custom {{Reflist}} column formatting
Bracket additional sources with {{Refbegin}} and {{Refend}}
Talk page
[edit]Implement any suggested improvements
Close any completed discussions
Update ratings and importance
Curate WikiProjects
Enable auto-archiving for long and old pages