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Kunle Remi
2022
Throughout the year, Remi landed roles in Saint Oyinda, Borrowed Wealth, Treasury, the television series Deserted, and Anikulapo by Kunle Afolayan. Saro, played by Remi, is a simple traditional textile weaver who becomes intertwined with Queen Arolake who is played by previous co-star Bimbo Ademoye. As she resents her marriage to the King, she and Saro fall in love. This romance leads him towards death, and as he tries to find his way out, he faces some unconventional decisions. Including betraying the queen and dealing with the consequences of his untamed powers. In its first week, it was viewed for 8,730,000 hours, became one of the top 10 films in 24 countries on Netflix, and was listed as the number one film in Nigeria in its first week. On top of this, the movie was awarded with Best Indigenous Language' (Yoruba), Best Overall Movie, Best Sound Editor (Movie/TV series), Best Writer (Movie/TV series), and Best Sound Track (Movie/TV series) at the 2023 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards (AMCVA).The actor finished the year with the release of the crime thriller Woke, released on 4 November. The movie is about a P.I.’s mission to retrieve the kidnapped daughter of a renowned Kingpin. On 23 December, Ijakumo (The Born Again Stripper) was released. The story follows the daughter of a powerful spiritualist, Asabi, who is going to destroy her ex's life. Remi plays the shady Pastor Jide, who she is trying to destroy. A man of God yet a man who can also commit atrocities.
List of artists who reached number one in the United States
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• Ricky Martin (1)
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• The Three Degrees (1)
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• The Raiders (1)
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• Loleatta Holloway (1)
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• Far East Movement (1)
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• Jonas Brothers (1)
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• TLC (4)
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• Charlie Gracie (1)°
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• The Rolling Stones (8)
• Mark Ronson (1)
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• Paul Mauriat (1)
Kunle Remi
TV hosting
While studying at the New York Film Academy, Remi worked as a host for an internet TV channel, Celebville 360. In 2013 he attended his first appearance reporting live at the Academy Awards nomination event in Beverly Hills, California. As his work on the screen expanded, his next hosting job was not until 2021, when he returned to where it all started. As a taskmaster, he returned to the Gulder Ultimate Search Season 12 with fellow host Toke Makinwa. In the following year, the actor had the opportunity to be the green carpet host of the '2022 Glo Dance Battle of the Year' with Moet Abebe. He also had a judging role in Dance Naija Dance by Zee World alongside Sashin Kandhaj, Kenneth Agabata, Uraysha Ramrachia and hosts Daniel K. Daniel and Pelumi Busari. Starting 6 August, the show ran every Saturday and Sunday for 10 weeks and included 16 top finalists from all over the country. Later that same year, on 3 and 4 November 2022, alongside 51 inspiring speakers, Remi anchored the Woman in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ) Africa where author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi was a keynote speaker. Remi then appeared on 23 November as the moderator at the Sterling Leadership Series: Born in Blackness, where the series interviewed journalist and author Howard French. Then to the Culturati, the largest art and cultural event in Nigeria, where they partnered with Creative Youth Community Development Initiative (CYCDI) – Solution17 to create the "Lagos Green Economy in Arts and Culture." The 27 November 2022, event was hosted by Remi, Osas Ighodaro, Bianca Ugowanne, and Princess Marinay. By 21 December, the actor went back to the creative side and hosted the Fuze Talent Hunt. Produced by Stanbic IBTC Holdings Pension Managers Limited, the talent hunt sought out "indigenous talents and help them explore their creativity and business prowess through the initiative."
List of artists who reached number one in the United States
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• The Angels (1)
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• Montell Jordan (1)
• Juicy J (1)
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• Dire Straits (1)
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• The Beatles (20)
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• Tommy James and the Shondells (2)
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• Tommy Edwards (1)
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• Sir Mix-a-Lot (1)
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• Glenn Medeiros (1)
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• Daniel Caesar (1)
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• Henry Mancini (1)
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• Barbra Streisand (5)
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• The Troggs (1)
• Tina Turner (1)
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• Dionne Warwick (2)
• Karyn White (1)
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• Genesis (1)
• Andy Gibb (3)
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• The Osmonds (1)
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• The Temptations (4)
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• Brian Hyland (1)
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• Ja Rule (3)
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• Roy Orbison (2)
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• Ray Parker Jr. (1)
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• Sting (1)
• Shaggy (2)
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• Dolly Parton (2)
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• Travis Scott (4)
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• Marvin Gaye (3)
• Gloria Gaynor (1)
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• Charlie Puth (1)
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• Janet Jackson (10)
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• Nate Ruess (1)
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• Kyu Sakamoto (1)
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• Cutting Crew (1)
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• Lloyd Price (1)
• Paper Lace (1)
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• Jimmy Dean (1)
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• Barenaked Ladies (1)
• Toni Basil (1)
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• Dave "Baby" Cortez (1)
• The Cataracs (1)
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• Frankie Avalon (2)
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• Daft Punk (1)
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• Right Said Fred (1)
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• Kiki Dee (1)
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• Cheap Trick (1)
FIFA World Cup awards
Media's selections
Yuuni 1998 Argentina lahabali gbaŋ Clarín daa buɣisi bol'ŋmɛri ŋun gaŋdu taarihi bɛla zaŋ labi yuuni 1930 polo. Shɛŋa nyɛla din mali nangbankpeeni zaŋ chaŋ pina tibu polo. Yuuni 1998 ŋun daa kpuɣi jaashee daa deei o pini kompatiisa maa bahigu.
Golden Glove
Golden Glove tiri la ŋun gbaai bolli nyaŋ sokam sani. Pini ɔ daa pili mi ni yuli din nyɛ "Lev Yashin Award" yuuni 1994, ni di mali teeri Soviet ŋun daa gbaari bolli yɛla. Bɛ daa labi taɣi li "Golden Glove" yuuni 2010. FIFA Technical Study Group piiri li mi n doli bol'gbaari maa ni kpaŋ o maŋa shɛm hali ka kompatiisa nima maa zaa ti naai. Di mini din bɔŋɔ kuli gahindi mi n tiri ban gbaari bolli maa zaa yoli,bɛ na nyɛla ban ni tooi deei Golden Ballgba, Oliver Kahn ni daa deei li yuuni 2002.
FIFA Young Player Award
FIFA Young Player Award ("Best Young Player Award" 2006–2010) daa ti tuuli yuuni 2006 World Cup Germany tiŋgbani ni ka bɛ daa zaŋ li n ti  Lukas Podolski ŋun yina German. Di tiri la bol'ŋmɛri ŋun miri yuun pia ni yini. 2022 World Cup ni, di wuhi mi ni naɣila bɛ dɔɣi lala bol'ŋmɛri maa silimin goli 1 January 2001 bee din nyaaŋa.
List of artists who reached number one in the United States
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• Odia Coates (1)
• Joe Cocker (1)
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• Sleepy Brown (1)
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• Pharrell (4)
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• Chic (2)
X–Z
• Young Jeezy (1)
• Zager and Evans (1)
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• The Chi-Lites (1)
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• Danny & the Juniors (1)°
External links
Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
X–Z
• Neil Young (1)
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• Stevie Wonder (10)
• Will to Power (1)
MOS:SECTIONCAPS
Do not use for emphasis
Initial capitals or all capitals should not be used for emphasis. If wording alone cannot provide the required emphasis, the <em ></em> HTML element (or its template wrapper) should be used: This includes over-capitalization for, i.e. to try to impress upon the reader the importance or specialness of something in a particular context. Introduction of a term of art may be wikilinked and, optionally, given in non-emphasis italics on first occurrence. Example: use The community of researchers in a field may produce a, not ... may produce a Scientific Consensus.
Sports, games, and other activities
Trademarked sports and games are capitalized like any other trademarks. Those that are published works (board games, roleplaying games, video games) are italicized like titles of other major works: Scrabble, Dungeons & Dragons, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Non-stand-alone add-on publications, such as RPG modules and DLCs are minor works and take quotation marks. Sport and game rule books and rule sets are also capitalized, italicized works; named chapters within them take quotation marks, and may be given in sentence case or title case as appropriate for the context, as with chapters of other works.
Compass points
Compound compass points are usually fully compounded in American English, for example northwest, while in British English they are sometimes written as separate words or hyphenated, as in north-west. This also affects names of regions such as Southeastern United States and South East England. Finer compass points take a hyphen after the first word, regardless, and never use a space: south-southeast or south-south-east, but not south-south east, south southeast, etc.
All caps and small caps
Avoid writing with all caps (all capital letters), including small caps (all caps at a reduced size), when they have only a stylistic function. Reduce them to title case, sentence case, or normal case, as appropriate.
Sports, games, and other activities
There are also three related naming-conventions guidelines:
Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines, and their adherents
Pronouns for deities and figures of veneration are not capitalized, even if capitalized in a religion's scriptures: Jesus addressed his followers, not Jesus addressed His followers (except in a direct quotation).
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Block quotations
Use and so on only for actual quotations; indentation for other purposes is done differently.
Plurals
Use the appropriate plural; allow for cases (such as excursus or hanif) in which a word is now listed in major English dictionaries, and normally takes an s or es plural, not its original plural: two excursuses, not two excursus as in Latin; three hanifs, not three hunafa as in Arabic.
Identity
When there is a discrepancy between the term most commonly used by reliable sources for a person or group and the term that person or group uses for themselves, use the term that is most commonly used by recent reliable sources. If it is unclear which is most used, use the term that the person or group uses.
Section organization
Certain standardized templates and wikicode that are not sections go at the very top of the article, before the content of the lead section, and in the following order:
Verb tense
Always use present tense for verbs that describe genres, types and classes, even if the subject of the description (e.g. program, library, device) no longer exists, is discontinued or is unsupported/unmaintained.
Serial commas
However, there are cases in which either omitting or including the serial comma results in ambiguity:
A serial comma (sometimes also called an Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is a comma used immediately before a conjunction (and, or, nor) in a list of three or more items.
Ampersand
In normal text and headings, use and instead of the ampersand (&): January 1 and 2, not January 1 & 2. But retain an ampersand when it is a legitimate part of the style of a proper noun, the title of a work, or a trademark, such as in Up &amp; Down or AT&T. Elsewhere, ampersands may be used with consistency and discretion where space is extremely limited (e.g., tables and infoboxes). Quotations may be cautiously modified, especially for consistency where different editions are quoted, as modern editions of old texts routinely replace ampersands with and (just as they replace other disused glyphs, ligatures, and abbreviations). Another frequent permissible but not required use is in short bibliographic references to works by multiple authors, e.g.: ... a series of French and Belgian papers (Lubbers & Scheepers, 2002; Van Hiel & Mervielde, 2002; Swyngedouw & Giles, 2007; Van Hiel, 2012).
To separate parts of an item in a list
Spaced en dashes are sometimes used between parts of list items. For example: or
Other uses (em dash only)
An indented em dash may be used before a name or other source when attributing below a block quotation, poem, etc. This dash should not be fully spaced, though it is best for metadata and accessibility reasons to hair-space it from the name. Most of Wikipedia's quotation templates with attribution-related parameters already provide this formatting.
No common usage in English
Foreign terms should be used sparingly.
Punctuating a sentence (em or en dashes)
Dashes can clarify the sentence structure when there are already commas or parentheses, or both.
For a quotation within a quotation
For quote marks in immediate succession, add a sliver of space by using " ', ' ", or (as in the example just given) " ' ":
Article openings
In the bolded text typically appearing at the opening of an article:
Punctuation before quotations
If a non-quoted but otherwise identical construction would work grammatically without a comma, using a comma before a quotation embedded within a sentence is optional: The comma-free approach is often used with partial quotations: A comma is required when it would be present in the same construction if none of the material were a quotation: Do not insert a comma if it would confuse or alter the meaning: It is clearer to use a colon to introduce a quotation if it forms a complete sentence, and this should always be done for multi-sentence quotations: No additional punctuation is necessary for an explicit words-as-words scenario:
Color coding
Choose colors such as maroon  and  teal  that are distinguishable by readers with the most common form of colorblindness, and  mark the differences with change of font or some other means (<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: maroon; font face: Times New Roman">maroon and alternative font face,  teal ). Avoid low contrast between text and background colors. See also color coding.
Titles
Use italics for the titles of works (such as books, films, television series, named exhibitions, computer games, music albums, and artworks). The titles of articles, chapters, songs, episodes, storylines, research papers and other short works instead take double quotation marks.
External links
These will appear as:
<span class="anchor" id="Periods (full stops) and spaces"> Punctuation and spacing
An abbreviation may or may not be terminated with a full point (also called a period or full stop). A consistent style should be maintained within an article. North American usage is typically to end all abbreviations with a period/point (Dr. Smith of 42 Drummond St.) but in common British and Australian usage, no period/point is used if the abbreviation (contraction) ends in the last letter of the unabbreviated form (Dr Smith of 42 Drummond St) unless confusion could result. This is also common practice in scientific writing. Regardless of punctuation, words that are abbreviated to more than one letter are spaced (op. cit. not op.cit. or opcit). There are some exceptions: PhD for "Philosophiae Doctor"; BVetMed for "Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine". In most situations, Wikipedia uses no such punctuation inside acronyms and initialisms: GDP, not G.D.P.
In compounds when the connection might otherwise be expressed with to, versus, and, or between
Do not use an en dash for hyphenated personal names, even when they are used as adjectives:
In ranges that might otherwise be expressed with to or through
Do not change hyphens to dashes in filenames, URLs, or templates such as (which formats verse ranges into URLs), even if a range is embedded in them.
Names and titles
• Short stories (books and periodicals italicized)
Circa
To indicate approximately, the use of, showing as c., is preferred over circa, c., ca., or approx.
Scrolling lists and collapsible content
Collapsed or auto-collapsing cells or sections may be used with tables if they simply repeat information covered in the main text (or are purely supplementary, e.g., several past years of statistics in collapsed tables for comparison with a table of uncollapsed current stats). Auto-collapsing is often a feature of navboxes. A few infoboxes also use pre-collapsed sections for infrequently accessed details. If information in a list, infobox, or other non-navigational content seems extraneous or trivial enough to inspire pre-collapsing it, consider raising a discussion on the article (or template) talk page about whether it should be included at all. If the information is important and the concern is article density or length, consider dividing the article into more sections, integrating unnecessarily list-formatted information into the article prose, or splitting the article.
Gender-neutral language
Use gender-neutral language – avoiding the generic he and generic she, for example – if this can be done with clarity and precision. This does not apply to direct quotations or the titles of works (The Ascent of Man), which should not be altered, or to wording about one-gender contexts, such as an all-female school (When any student breaks that rule, she loses privileges).
Wikilinks
Linking to sections: A hash sign followed by the appropriate heading will lead to a relevant part of a page. For example,  links to a particular section of the article Apostrophe.
Hyphens
Hyphenation rules in other languages may be different. Thus, in French a place name such as Trois-Rivières ("Three Rivers") is hyphenated, when it would not be in English. Follow reliable sources in such cases.
Spacing: A hyphen is never followed or preceded by a space, except when hanging or when used to display parts of words independently, such as the prefix sub-and the suffix-less.
Commas
<li> Dates in month–day–year format require a comma after the day, as well as after the year, unless followed by other punctuation. The last element is treated as parenthetical.
Quotation marks and internal links
Internal links (wikilinks) accompanied by quotation marks should usually have the quotes outside the link. This applies to song titles. However, quotation marks are needed inside wikilinks when the quotation mark is part of the link, or where the linked display text includes quotation marks indicating slang, nicknames, common names, or similar usage.
For a quotation within a quotation
Use single quotes: For deeper nesting, alternate between single and double quotes:
Strong national ties to a topic
• Great Fire of London (British English)
Brackets and linking
Square brackets inside of links must be escaped:
MOS:COLLAPSE
Current
Terms such as "current", "now", and "recent" should be avoided. What is current today may not be tomorrow; situations change over time. Instead, use date- and time-specific text. To help keep information updated use, which will allow editors to catalog and update dated statements.
In compounds when the connection might otherwise be expressed with to, versus, and, or between
Here, the relationship is thought of as parallel, symmetric, equal, oppositional, or at least involving. The components may be nouns, adjectives, verbs, or any other independent part of speech. Often, if the components are reversed there would be little change of meaning.
Controlling line breaks
It is desirable to prevent line breaks where breaking across lines might be confusing or awkward. For example:
Insert non-breaking and thin spaces as named character reference ( or  ), or as templates that generate these, and never by entering them directly into the edit window from the keyboard – they are visually indistinguishable from regular spaces, and later editors will be unable to see what they are. Inside wikilinks, a construction such as works but  doesn't.
Wikilinks
Make links only where they are relevant and helpful in the context: Excessive use of hyperlinks can be distracting and may slow the reader down. Redundant links (like the one in the tallest people on Earth) clutter the page and make future maintenance harder. High-value links that worth pursuing should stand out clearly.
Foreign-language quotations
When editors themselves translate foreign text into English, care must always be taken to include the original text, (except for non-Latin-based writing systems), and to use actual and (if at all possible) common English words in the translation. Unless you are certain of your competency to translate something, see Translation for assistance.
Serial commas
Editors may use either convention so long as each article is internally consistent. Serial commas are more helpful when article text is complex, such as a list with multi-word items (especially if one contains its own "and" or a series of probably unfamiliar terms.
However, there are cases in which either omitting or including the serial comma results in ambiguity:
Color coding
Even for readers with unimpaired color vision, excessive background shading of table entries impedes readability and recognition of Wikilinks. Background color should be used only as a visual cue and should be subtle (consider using lighter, less-dominant pastel hues) rather than glaring.
Block quotations
It is conventional to precede a block quotation with an introductory sentence (or sentence fragment) and append the source citation to that line. Alternatively, the template provides parameters for attribution and citation which will appear below the quotation. This below-quotation attribution style is intended for famous quotations and is unusual in articles because it may strike an inappropriate tone. A quotation with no cited source should be flagged with, or deleted.
Colons
In most cases, a colon works best with a complete grammatical sentence before it. When what follows the colon is also a complete sentence, start it with a capital letter, but otherwise, do not capitalize after a colon except where doing so is needed for another reason, as for a proper name. Except in technical usage (a 3:1 ratio), no sentence should contain multiple colons, no space should precede a colon, and a space (but never a hyphen or dash) should follow the colon.
Semicolons
A semicolon is sometimes an alternative to a full stop (period), enabling related material to be kept in the same sentence; it marks a more decisive division in a sentence than a comma. If the semicolon separates clauses, normally each clause must be independent (meaning that it could stand on its own as a sentence). In many cases, only a comma or only a semicolon will be correct in a given sentence.
Names and titles
Do not use quotation marks or italics for: • Ancient writings
• Concert tours
Color coding
Do not use color to mark differences in text: they may be invisible to people with color blindness and useless in black-and-white printouts or displays.
Punctuation inside or outside
If the quoted sentence is followed by a clause that should be preceded by a comma, omit the full stop (period) – but other terminal punctuation, such as a question mark or exclamation mark, may be retained.
Spelling and romanization
Proper names in languages which use the Latin alphabet can include characters with diacritics, ligatures, and others that are not commonly used in present-day English. Wikipedia normally retains these special characters, except where there is a well-established English spelling that replaces them with English standard letters. Examples: Such matters are determined on a topic-by-topic basis; a small group of editors cannot "prohibit" or "require" diacritics across a category of articles.
Commas
<li> Place quotation marks by following. This is called "logical quotation".
Section organization
If an article has at least four section headings, a navigable table of contents appears automatically, just after the lead.
If the topic of a section is covered in more detail in a dedicated article, insert or  immediately under the section heading.
Strong national ties to a topic
For topics with strong ties to Commonwealth of Nations countries and other former British territories, use Commonwealth English orthography, largely indistinguishable from British English in encyclopedic writing (excepting Canada, which uses a different orthography).
Commas
<li> In geographical references that include multiple levels of subordinate divisions (e.g., city, state/province, country), a comma separates each element and follows the last element unless followed by terminal punctuation or a closing parenthesis. The last element is treated as parenthetical.
Block quotations
Pull quotes do not belong in Wikipedia articles. These are the news and magazine style of "pulling" material already in the article to reuse it in attention-grabbing decorative quotations. This unencyclopedic approach is a form of editorializing, produces out-of-context and undue emphasis, and may lead the reader to conclusions not supported in the material.
Spacing
Some editors place two spaces after a period/full stop ; these are condensed to one space when the page is rendered, so it does not affect what readers see.
Commas
<li> A comma may be included before a quotation embedded within a sentence. </li>
Section headings
For technical reasons, section headings should:
Section headings should generally follow the guidance for article titles (above), and should be presented in sentence case (Funding of UNESCO projects in developing countries), not title case (Funding of UNESCO Projects in Developing Countries).
Write first occurrences in full
Do not use capitals in the full version merely because capitals are used in the abbreviation: an early Local Area Network (LAN).
Emphasis
Use <em ></em> or for emphasis. This allows user style sheets to handle emphasis in a customized way, and helps reusers and translators.
Geographical items
Names in languages with no particular present-day or historical ties to the place in question (English excepted, of course) should be listed as alternatives.
Other uses (en dash only)
The en dash (–) has other roles, beyond its use as a sentence-punctuating dash. It is often analogous to the hyphen, which more strongly than the en dash; or to the slash , which  more definitely. Consider the exact meaning when choosing which to use.
Semicolon before "however"
The meaning of a sentence containing a trailing clause that starts with the word however depends on the punctuation preceding that word. A common error is to use the wrong punctuation, thereby changing the meaning to one not intended.
When the word however is an adverb meaning "nevertheless", it should be preceded by a semicolon and followed by a comma. Example:
Dates
Full dates are formatted 10 June 1921 or June 10, 1921; or where the year is omitted, use 10 June or June 10.
Dashes
Sources use dashes in varying ways. For consistency and clarity, Wikipedia adopts the following principles.
Slashes (strokes)
Do not use the backslash character (\) in place of a slash.
Punctuating a sentence (em or en dashes)
Ideally, use a non-breaking space before the en dash, which prevents the en dash from occurring at the beginning of a line (markup: or  or  ):
Strong national ties to a topic
• Australian Defence Force (Australian English)
MOS:MAIN
Animals, plants, and other organisms
Create redirects from alternative capitalization and spelling forms of article titles, and from alternative names, e.g., Adélie Penguin, Adelie penguin, Adelie Penguin and Pygoscelis adeliae should all redirect to Adélie penguin.
Names and titles
• Poems (long or epic poems italicized)
Spelling and romanization
A non-English proper name should generally not be italicized, unless it would be for some other reason; this is most commonly when it is the title of a major published work, as in Les Liaisons dangereuses; or when it is being compared in a words-as-words manner to another name for the same subject, e.g., Nuremberg (Nürnberg). When the name should not be italicized, language markup can still be used to ensure proper pronunciation in screen readers, with the unset parameter:.
Names and titles
• Short stories (books and periodicals italicized)
Semicolons
This incorrect use of a comma between two independent clauses is known as a comma splice; however, in certain kinds of cases, a comma may be used where a semicolon would seem to be called for:
Other dashes
For a negative sign or subtraction operator use, which can also be generated by clicking on the − following the ± in the Insert toolbar beneath the edit window. Do not use inside a  tag, as the character gives a syntax error; instead use a normal hyphen.
Identity
Disputes over how to refer to a person or group are addressed by Wikipedia content policies, such as those on verifiability, and neutral point of view (and article titles when the term appears in the title of an article).
Names and titles
• Sections of musical pieces (pieces italicized)
Colons
A colon introduces something that demonstrates, explains, or modifies what has come before, or is a list of items that has just been introduced. The items in such a list may be separated by commas, or if they are more complex and perhaps themselves contain commas, the items should be separated by semicolons or arranged in a bulleted list.
Geographical items
<section begin="MOS:GEO" />Geographical or place names are the nouns used to refer to specific places and geographic features. These names often give rise to conflict, because the same places are called different things by different peoples speaking different languages. Many place names have a historical context that should be preserved, but common sense should prevail. There can be few places that have not been parts of more than one culture or have had only one name. As proper nouns, all such place names (but not terms for types of places) have major words capitalized.
Wikilinks
Make links only where they are relevant and helpful in the context: Excessive use of hyperlinks can be distracting and may slow the reader down. Redundant links (like the one in the tallest people on Earth) clutter the page and make future maintenance harder. High-value links that worth pursuing should stand out clearly.
Colons
A colon may also be used to introduce direct speech enclosed within quotation marks.
Slashes (strokes)
Generally, avoid joining two words with a slash, also called a forward slash, stroke or solidus (/), because it suggests that the words are related without specifying how. Replace with clearer wording.
Circa
To indicate approximately, the use of, showing as c., is preferred over circa, c., ca., or approx.
Brackets and parentheses
Avoid adjacent sets of brackets. Either put the parenthetical phrases in one set separated by semicolons, or rewrite:
Typographic conformity
It is not normally necessary to explicitly note changes in capitalization. However, for more precision, the altered letter may be put inside square brackets: "The" → "[t]he".
Scientific names
Use italics for the scientific names of plants, animals, and all other organisms except viruses at the genus level and below (italicize Panthera leo and Retroviridae, but not Felidae). The hybrid sign is not italicized (Rosa × damascena), nor is the "connecting term" required in three-part botanical names (Rosa gallica subsp. officinalis).
Spacing
Some editors place two spaces after a period/full stop ; these are condensed to one space when the page is rendered, so it does not affect what readers see.
No common usage in English
Use italics for phrases in other languages and for isolated foreign words that are not current in English (except certain cases in other guidance). Where possible, this is best done with the template using the appropriate ISO language code, e.g.,. This does not apply to foreign names of people or places. There are alternatives to the template which also provide additional information about a foreign word or phrase, such as a link to the language name;. The template and related templates automatically italicize text for Latin-alphabet scripts, so do not add separate italics markup around or within them. Non-Latin-based scripts like Chinese should not be italicized, since it is already obvious the material cannot be English, and some such scripts do not support italicization.
Avoid using images to convey text
For entering textual information as audio, see WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia.
Captions
Photographs and other graphics should have captions, unless they are unambiguous depictions of the subject of the article or when they are "self-captioning" images (such as reproductions of album or book covers). In a biography article no caption is necessary for a portrait of the subject pictured alone, but one might be used to give the year, the subject's age, or other circumstances of the portrait along with the name of the subject.
Retaining existing styles
Sometimes the MoS provides more than one acceptable style or gives no specific guidance. The Arbitration Committee has expressed the principle that "When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change." If you believe an alternative style would be more appropriate for a particular article, discuss this at the article's talk page or – if it raises an issue of more general application or with the MoS itself – at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style.
In ranges that might otherwise be expressed with to or through
The en dash in a range is always unspaced, except when either or both elements of the range include at least one space, hyphen, or en dash; in such cases, snd between them will provide the proper formatting.
Dates
Full dates are formatted 10 June 1921 or June 10, 1921; or where the year is omitted, use 10 June or June 10.
Titles
Italics are not used for major religious works (the Bible, the Quran, the Talmud). Many of these titles should also be in title case.
Strong national ties to a topic
• Great Fire of London (British English)
• Dublin (Hiberno-English)
First-person pronouns
To maintain an objective and impersonal encyclopedic voice, an article should never refer to its editors or readers using I, my, we, us, our, or similar forms: We note that some believe that bats are bugs. But some such forms are acceptable in certain figurative uses. For example:
Second-person pronouns
Avoid addressing the reader using you or your, which sets an inappropriate tone.
In compounds when the connection might otherwise be expressed with to, versus, and, or between
Generally, use a hyphen in compounded proper names of single entities.
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Retaining existing styles
Sometimes the MoS provides more than one acceptable style or gives no specific guidance. The Arbitration Committee has expressed the principle that "When either of two styles is acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change." If you believe an alternative style would be more appropriate for a particular article, discuss this at the article's talk page or – if it raises an issue of more general application or with the MoS itself – at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style.
In ranges that might otherwise be expressed with to or through
Do not mix en dashes with between or from.
Avoid using images to convey text
Textual information should almost always be entered as text rather than as an image. True text can be colored and adjusted with CSS tags and templates, but text in images cannot be. Images are not searchable, are slower to download, and are unlikely to be read as text by devices for the visually impaired. Any important textual information in an image should also appear in the image's alt text, caption, or other nearby text.
Semicolons
Above, "Though he had been here before" cannot stand on its own as a sentence, and therefore is not an independent clause.
Slashes (strokes)
A spaced slash may be used:
Punctuation after formulae
A sentence that ends with a formula should have terminal punctuation (period, exclamation mark, or question mark) after the formula. Within a sentence, place other punctuation (such as commas or colons) after the formula just as if the text were not a formula. See.
External links
These will appear as:
Slashes (strokes)
Prefer the division operator (÷) to slash or fraction slash when representing elementary arithmetic in general text: 10 ÷ 2 = 5. In more advanced mathematical formulas, a vinculum or slash is preferred: or xn/n! .
Other uses (em dash only)
—Charlotte Brontë
Colons
A colon introduces something that demonstrates, explains, or modifies what has come before, or is a list of items that has just been introduced. The items in such a list may be separated by commas, or if they are more complex and perhaps themselves contain commas, the items should be separated by semicolons or arranged in a bulleted list.
Other uses (em dash only)
An indented em dash may be used before a name or other source when attributing below a block quotation, poem, etc. This dash should not be fully spaced, though it is best for metadata and accessibility reasons to hair-space it from the name. Most of Wikipedia's quotation templates with attribution-related parameters already provide this formatting.
Identity
Disputes over how to refer to a person or group are addressed by Wikipedia content policies, such as those on verifiability, and neutral point of view (and article titles when the term appears in the title of an article).
Do not invent
Generally avoid devising new abbreviations, especially acronyms. For example, World Union of Billiards is good as a of Union Mondiale de Billard, but neither it nor the reduction WUB is used by the organization or by independent sources; use the original name and its official abbreviation, UMB.
Ampersand
In normal text and headings, use and instead of the ampersand (&): January 1 and 2, not January 1 & 2. But retain an ampersand when it is a legitimate part of the style of a proper noun, the title of a work, or a trademark, such as in Up &amp; Down or AT&T. Elsewhere, ampersands may be used with consistency and discretion where space is extremely limited (e.g., tables and infoboxes). Quotations may be cautiously modified, especially for consistency where different editions are quoted, as modern editions of old texts routinely replace ampersands with and (just as they replace other disused glyphs, ligatures, and abbreviations). Another frequent permissible but not required use is in short bibliographic references to works by multiple authors, e.g.: ... a series of French and Belgian papers (Lubbers & Scheepers, 2002; Van Hiel & Mervielde, 2002; Swyngedouw & Giles, 2007; Van Hiel, 2012).
Quotation marks and external links
External links to article titles should have the title in quotes inside the link. CS1 and CS2 templates do this automatically, and untemplated references should do the same.
Scrolling lists and collapsible content
When such features are used, take care that the content will still be accessible on devices that do not support JavaScript or CSS, and to the greater than 60% of Wikipedia readers who use the mobile version of the site, which has a limited set of features and does not support collapsing (any collapsible templates will either be automatically uncollapsed or hidden entirely). Mobile ability to access the content in question is easy to test with the "Mobile view" link at the bottom of each page.
Plurals
Names of towns and countries usually take singular verbs (even when grammatically plural: the United States is in North America, the Netherlands is also known as Holland), but exceptionally in British English, typically when used to refer to a sports team named after a town or country or when discussing actions of a government, plural is used. For example, in England are playing Germany tomorrow, England refers to a football team; but in England is in the Northern hemisphere, it refers to the country. See also including.
Typographic conformity
A quotation is not a facsimile and, in most cases, it is not a requirement that the original formatting be preserved. Formatting and other purely typographical elements of quoted text should be adapted to English Wikipedia's conventions without comment, provided that doing so will not change or obscure meaning or intent of the text. These are alterations which make no difference when the text is read aloud, for example:
However, national varieties should not be changed, as these may involve changes in vocabulary. For example, a quotation from a British source should retain British spelling, even in an article that otherwise uses American spelling. Numbers also usually should not be reformatted.
Punctuation and footnotes
When ref tags are used, a footnote list must be added, and this is usually placed in the References section, near the end of the article in the standard appendices and footers.
In compounds when the connection might otherwise be expressed with to, versus, and, or between
Do not use spaces around the en dash in any of the compounds above.
Second-person pronouns
Avoid addressing the reader using you or your, which sets an inappropriate tone.
Compass points
Do not capitalize directions such as north, or their related forms (We took the northern road), except where they are parts of proper names (Great North Road, Great Western Drive, South Pole).
Brackets and linking
Square brackets inside of links must be escaped:
Names and titles
• Locations
Animals, plants, and other organisms
Standardized breeds should generally retain the capitalization used in the breed standards. Examples: German Shepherd dog, Russian White goat, Berlin Short-faced Tumbler. As with plant cultivars, this applies whether or not the included noun is a proper name, in contrast to how vernacular names of species are written. However, unlike cultivars, breeds are never put in single quotation marks, and their names are never part of a scientific name. A species term appended at the end for disambiguation ("cat", "hound", "horse", "swine", etc.) should not be capitalized, unless it is a part of the breed name itself and is consistently presented that way in the breed standard(s) (rare cases include Norwegian Forest Cat and American Quarter Horse).
Geographical items
At the start of an article, provide notable equivalent names from other languages, including transcriptions where necessary: