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general-audience sources on style, especially when ... different disciplines use conflicting styles."  – WT:Manual of Style/FAQ The common-style fallacy (CSF) is the...

extreme, of the common-style fallacy about mimicking the style of journalistic writing. A secondary implication of either version of the fallacy, sometimes...

The tertiary-source fallacy (TSF), dictionary fallacy, encyclopedia fallacy, or style-guide fallacy is the idea that tertiary sources—such as encyclopedias...

but absurd. It bears no resemblance to how consensus at Wikipedia is actually formed. Wikipedia:Common-style fallacy Wikipedia:Specialized-style fallacy...

sources (essay: includes usage dictionaries and style guides that contain them) Wikipedia:Common-style fallacy (essay: just because bloggers or entertainment...

Manual of Style. It includes only current guidelines, not proposals or historical pages, nor pages that now redirect outside the Manual of Style (e.g. WikiProjects'...

compromise with others. Wikipedia:Common-style fallacy Wikipedia:Specialized-style fallacy Wikipedia:Tertiary-source fallacy WP:UPPERCASE (WP:STICKTOSOURCES...

contains very little content and therefore must not be notable. This is a fallacy simply because a short article may be incomplete or simply may only be...

consistency) WP:Specialized-style fallacy – essay on why most arguments against WP's house style are wrong-headed WP:Common-style fallacy – essay on why the rest...

their name in title case. Wikipedia:Specialist style fallacy * according to WP:Fauna name "The common name of a group of species, or an individual creature...

personal preference, the specialized-style fallacy, or the common-style fallacy. Like all style guides, MoS exists so that a roster of writers can get to...

editors should disambiguate articles (see Wikipedia:Disambiguation). The style guidelines on this page aim to give disambiguation pages a consistent appearance...

essay. RL0919 (talk) 13:05, 16 January 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:Specialized-style fallacy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) At best, this manifesto...

editors. Some engage on talk pages, and often make use of distraction fallacies, falling into a pattern which has been characterised as: Like someone...

—MastCell, [1], in a comment about a pernicious form of the two-wrongs fallacy, in which users seeking to deflect from their own culpability (or the culpability...

verifiability, the bedrock principles that ground Wikipedia articles. Logical fallacy Wikipedia:You Are Probably Not a Lexicologist or a Lexicographer Wikipedia:Call...

significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention. There are a number of common mistakes seen in addressing this issue: Adding citations but to unreliable...

dick, so we can ban you Wikipedia:Randy in Boise Wikipedia:Specialized-style fallacy Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great § Behavioral/cultural problems...

Talk:Cro-Magnon 20:10, 28 June 2025 (UTC) It doesn't explain why it's a fallacy. on Talk:Junkyard tornado 05:17, 28 June 2025 (UTC) View full list – Add...

this. He was technically right, as a semantic matter, if one accepted his fallacy of equivocation about the wording. But he was clearly violating the spirit...