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

Add or improve

Export better description to WikiData (and edit for initial lowercase)

Tags

Add necessary tags

Remove resolved tags

Establish WP:ENGVAR, tag and create consistency

Acronyms

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

Avoid back-to-back links (WP:SOB)

Do not WP:OVERLINK

Do not MOS:REPEATLINK

Piped links

Remove unnecessary pipes with User:Nardog/Unpipe

• Check for simplification with suffix - s]] vs. ]]s

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

MOS:TERM: Quotes are for things someone said. Use lower-case italics for technical terms.

Title

WP:LOWERCASE: Only use title case for proper nouns

MOS:ACROTITLE: Avoid acronyms in titles

Match title to first bold mention

Lead

MOS:BOLDSYN: Bold redirect targets

MOS:BOLDLINK: avoid links in bolded portion

Create redirects for listed alternate names

Headings

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

MOS:ORDER

See also

20em column formatting for large See also sections

Sort alphabetically

Avoid unnecessary redirects

WP:NOTSEEALSO

• No redlinks
• No disambig links
• No repeats of links already in article or navigation templates

Move links to body

Notes

Move tangential material to Notes section with {{efn}} and {{notelist}}

Referencing

Convert external links to references

Combine repeated references

Endmatter

Double horizontal space before {{Stub}} templates

Remove custom {{Reflist}} column formatting

Bracket additional sources with {{Refbegin}} and {{Refend}}

Talk page

See also: User:Kvng/Clipboard § Talk

Implement any suggested improvements

Close any completed discussions

Update ratings and importance

Curate WikiProjects

Enable auto-archiving for long and old pages