WP:WORDS (more often MOS:WORDS or MOS:WTW) is a shortcut to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch, the guideline on expressions that may introduce bias, lack precision, or be taken as offensive
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Policies, guidelines, and related material
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:NOTDICT), the policy on words as article topics
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Words as words (MOS:WAW), the guideline section on formatting of words mentioned or defined in text
- Manual of Style supplements on wording in encyclopedic writing:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling/Words ending with "-ise" or "-ize", a table of word spellings in American and two variants of British English
- Wikipedia:Commonly misspelled words, a list of frequent errors, used for cleanup by editors and bots
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch/Config, list of the most common loaded or weasel terms and phrases, used for cleanup by editors and bots
- Wikipedia:Needless words, a short list of junk or puffery words and phrases, for editors to delete/replace
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Risk lists/risk words, a short list of red-flag terms (unmaintained since 2010)
Help and how-to
- Help:Magic words (H:MAGIC, H:MW), documentation of "magic words" used in wikicode, including parser functions, variables, and behavior switches
- Help:Magic words for beginners (H:MAGICBEGIN, H:MWFB), a summary version of the above
- On Microsoft Word and other word-processor software as Wikipedian tools:
- Help:WordToWiki, instruction on transfering content from several word processors into MediaWiki format as used on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Historical archive/How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word, instructions on using Word for graphics; obsolete since 2014
Wikipedian opinion essays
- Wikipedia:Embrace weasel words, a humor essay that nevertheless makes some valid points about "weasel-wording" occasionally being practical not weaselly
- Wikipedia:Aesthetic opinions (WP:GREATEST), concise essay summarizing how to treat claims like "[one of] the greatest"
- Wikipedia:The problem with elegant variation (WP:ELEVAR), an essay on pitfalls in overuse of synonyms to avoid repeating a word or name
- Wikipedia:Use our own words (WP:OUROWNWORDS), an essay on rewriting to avoid plagiarism (and on the etymological fallacy)
- Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia's policies and guidelines should never use the term "third party" (WP:DONTSAY3RDPARTY), an essay providing an opinion against a particular phrase
- Wikipedia:Words of wisdom (WP:WISDOM), an essay on editorial ego (and conspiracy theorizing)
See also
Miscellaneous other partial-title matches (via selective search):
- with "words"
- with "word"
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