User talk:Laqueesha/Archive 1

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Writing intros

When writing summaries for films, please do not copy from outside sources. Also, please check your work before finalizing. --Ben41 (talk) 21:31, 5 December 2012 (EST)

Thanks for the tip. Laqueesha (talk) 23:31, 8 December 2012 (EST)

Periods in initials

For the sake of consistency, we don't put periods in initials. So "US Army" rather than "U.S. Army." Thanks. --Funkychinaman (talk) 20:03, 13 January 2013 (EST)

X-Files edits

I've since changed them but I gotta ask - Any particular reason you changed the 'USA' to 'U.S.' in the infoboxes on most (but not all) of the season pages? All the other pages I've seen either use 'USA' or 'United States'. It looks strange and the Style Guide states periods on initialisms aren't required. Given you didn't do it on all the season pages it just seemed rather arbitrary. StanTheMan (talk) 14:12, 27 November 2015 (EST)

I changed it to "U.S." because over on Wikipedia, they prefer "U.S." over "USA". Laqueesha (talk) 09:30, 30 November 2015 (EST)

Our own Style Guide states that "Initialisms do not need periods." So if you're going to change it, it should be US and not U.S. --Funkychinaman (talk) 11:44, 30 November 2015 (EST)

Edits

Look, you've been told by multiple people on multiple occasions that we don't put periods in initialisms the way that wikipedia does. Stop doing it or we're going to be moving up to bans next time. Evil Tim (talk) 14:21, 5 January 2018 (EST)

It's the third item. --Funkychinaman (talk) 22:04, 8 January 2018 (EST)

Fine, we'll do this the hard way. Evil Tim (talk) 01:27, 9 January 2018 (EST)

US edits

I reverted some of them since I think 'USA' is a bit more proper of an abbreviation to list as a country of publication in the infobox. Just my take, though thinking on it I suppose it doesn't matter much either way.. I'm welcome to ask Tim or FCM or any of the other admins for input but regardless if you wanna revert those back, eh, feel free. StanTheMan (talk) 20:12, 16 February 2018 (EST)

Hi, professional English language writing style guides such as the 2010 edition of The Chicago Manual of Style prefer "US" over "USA". Laqueesha (talk) 01:14, 17 February 2018 (EST)