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This page is a work in progress, a working draft of a supplement to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. Its purpose is to record decisions made in discussions at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers.
Precise language[edit]
Time of day[edit]
Day, month and season names[edit]
Full date formatting[edit]
Format consistency[edit]
Strong national ties to a topic[edit]
Retaining the existing format[edit]
Dates of birth and death[edit]
Other date ranges[edit]
Linking and autoformatting of dates[edit]
Longer periods[edit]
Year numbering systems[edit]
Calendars[edit]
Time zones[edit]
Numbers as figures or words[edit]
Typography[edit]
Delimiting (grouping of digits)[edit]
Large numbers[edit]
Fractions[edit]
Decimal points[edit]
Percentages[edit]
Natural numbers[edit]
Repeating decimals[edit]
Non-base-10 notations[edit]
Scientific notation, engineering notation, and uncertainty[edit]
Notations[edit]
Uncertainty[edit]
Which units to use and how to present them[edit]
Unit conversions[edit]
Avoiding ambiguities[edit]
Unit names and symbols[edit]
Conventions[edit]
Unit names[edit]
Unit symbols[edit]
Units and symbols often written incorrectly[edit]
Quantities of bytes and bits[edit]
Adopting suggestions from standards bodies[edit]
Which one to use[edit]
Formatting[edit]
