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Various other types of works are sometimes referred to as style guides.
=== Law, business, marketing, and
There are specialized style guides for legal writing, business letters and memos, effective marketing, etc., but they don't have any real impact on general writing. Some of these have field-specific details drawn from them (especially in law) for MoS, but otherwise have no detectable influence on Wikipedia style. In particular, many of them are "punctuation-hostile", and like to drop hyphens, commas and other marks that don't seem absolutely necessary when professionals are communicating with other professionals in the same field, in compressed and highly [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Technical language|jargon-laden]] academic journal material.
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