User:Michael B. Trausch/Templates/Copyediting

Copyediting

Thank you for your recent copyedits here on Wikipedia. I just wanted to give you some pointers to some information that may be helpful for your future endeavors in copyediting:

• There is an article on copyediting that contains a great deal of useful information.
• If you use GNOME, I have put together some information on how to copyedit with Unicode characters, which may be useful.
• Copyediting isn’t an easy job; it can be hard to keep an article using one style consistently since this is a collaborative effort for all of us. Personally, I prefer to use typographic punctuation instead of typewriter punctuation—it makes articles here look more professional, and isn’t that hard to do. Either way, the important part is trying to keep articles uniformly one or the other; though one of my general rules that I use is that if an article uses en or em dashes (“–” or “—”), it should also use typographic characters, or remove the en or em dashes altogether.

Thank you for your contributions, and I look forward to seeing you around here in the future! ~~~

Using this template

This is probably one of my simplest templates. It only takes one optional parameter:

• article – the name of an article that the user has copyedited.

Usage:

{{subst:User:Fd0man/Templates/Copyediting}}

or:

{{subst:User:Fd0man/Templates/Copyediting|article=Microsoft}}