Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions: Difference between revisions

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m Repaired abuse of <tt> (<tt> is for OUTput, <code> is for INput); more readable code examples.
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As in the fern example above, any of the three styles described above could be turned into a link if there exists a more detailed or better explanation of the technical term in a separate article. It may not be necessary then to define the term in the article if a link leads to a definition. However, to aid the reader in continuing with the text without having to leave an article for other details, it might still be appropriate to include a non-technical substitute in parentheses, as in the fern example above.
 
When a vast amount of jargon appears in an article, you might consider bundling all terms and their definitions within a list[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (glossaries)|glossary]]. When you do so, do use the appropriate definition list markup:
 
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