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Gabrielm199 (talk) 18:51, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Copy-editing

Hello.

Please look at this edit. Note that:

• In Wikipedia articles, one does not capitalize an initial letter merely because it is in a section heading. The first letter of the heading is capital except when there is a special reason to use lower case, and the later initial letters are in lower case except when they are proper names or there is some other special reason to use a capital.
• In non-TeX mathematical notation one italicizes variables but not punctuation and not digits.

right: [a,b] or [a, b]

wrong: [a,b]

right: x² + 5

wrong: x² + 5

The point of this is to be consistent with the way TeX does it.

• Ranges of pages or years or other numbers use an en-dash, not a hyphen.

right: pp. 509–513

wrong: pp. 509-513

right: John Smith (January 1, 1990 – December 25, 2087) was a theologian and blacksmith.

wrong: John Smith (January 1, 1990 - December 25, 2087) was a theologian and blacksmith.

• Things like Borsuk–Ulam theorem use an en-dash, not a hyphen.

right: Borsuk–Ulam theorem

wrong: Borsuk-Ulam theorem

(On the other hand hyphenated names like Levi-Civita use a hyphen.)

• In Wikipedia the house style is that in things like "Borsuk–Ulam theorem" and "Rolle's theorem" the word "theorem" begins with a lower-case initial letter.

These things are codified in WP:MOS and in WP:MOSMATH. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)