Reason being, that I find the arbitrary and prescriptive guidelines the most useful, such as, always use an unspaced en dash to connect a range of dates, mark the main sections with level 2 headings, and never use horizontal lines.
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All of my comments have been satisfied, noting the point about MOS inconsistency over " north east " v " northeast " etc . I changed the dashes to unspaced 5489 ( tickets please ! ) 20 : 34, 27 July 2009 ( UTC)
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:Quick reference, in addition to the link above : endash between dates for date ranges ( unspaced; i . e . no space between the dates and the dash ), emdash for open ranges ( i . e . " 2002 & mdash; ).
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There is a discussion currently going on in Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style # Em dash about whether the Manual of Style should only favour spaced en-dashes and unspaced em-dashes for disjunction ( thus disallowing spaced em-dashes ), each to be used consistently in any given article.
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You have now put in unspaced en dashes, where I and WP : DASH and all publishers allow only spaced en dashes ( which you had at the outset ) in this role, or em dashes ( which are in fact required for consistency in this article : unspaced, in fact ).
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You have now put in unspaced en dashes, where I and WP : DASH and all publishers allow only spaced en dashes ( which you had at the outset ) in this role, or em dashes ( which are in fact required for consistency in this article : unspaced, in fact ).
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*( cur ) ( prev ) 03 : 11, May 12, 2009 2over0 ( talk | contribs ) ( 36, 465 bytes ) ( Undid revision 289311442 by 166.191.225.235 please also note that the Manual of style stipulates that refs be unspaced ) ( undo)
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There is a discussion currently going on in Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style # Em dash about whether the Manual of Style should only favour spaced en-dashes and unspaced em-dashes for disjunction ( thus disallowing spaced em-dashes ), each format to be used consistently in any given article.
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*"'Notes "': WP : OVERLINKing " galore ", inconsistent dates in citations, missing info in citations ( ex : stars return to action ), and please fix the unspaced WP : EMDASHes to confrom to WP : DASH . That's a brief start.
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The city is believed to have the highest number of homeless inhabitants . . . Another WP : DASH issue, no unspaced emdashes please : . . . installations the Presidio, Treasure Island, and Hunters Point a legacy . . . Incorrect Talk ) 21 : 50, 10 June 2008 ( UTC)
