Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pakistan-related articles
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This guideline is a part of the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page. |
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These guidelines deal with the naming of Pakistan-related articles. Please follow the conventions below. If you disagree with any of the conventions, please discuss in the Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Pakistan-related articles.
The purpose of this manual is to govern style guidelines for editing articles related to Pakistan in the English Wikipedia to conform with a neutral encyclopedic standard. It also states the conventions to be followed for writing the names in Nastaliq script. This manual is open to all proposals, discussion, and editing. Please see
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style for general cases
- Wikipedia:Historyfor notes on the style of history articles
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) for general use of English names in articles.
- Wikipedia:Notice board for Pakistan-related topics for ongoing news and tasks relevant to Pakistan-related topics.
Manual of Style
Basic conventions
- Use only Pakistani English spellings as per the guidelines for Pakistan related pages.
- All units should be metric (SI) units. Imperial equivalents may be given alongside in brackets. The {{Convert}} template can be useful for this.
- You may use the croresbut should give their equivalents in millions/billions in parentheses. Use a non-breaking space in such circumstances, e.g.: 21{{nbsp}}crore and always link the first occurrence of the word.
- Comma-delimited numbers should always be written in the Western style (e.g., 30,000,000; not 3,00,00,000). See WP:NUMERAL.
- For monetary figures, you may use the Pakistani numbering system but also give their US dollarequivalents in parentheses.
Nastaliq script
Consensus and common practice among
WP:INDICSCRIPT
. Note that this consensus only applies to Pakistan-related articles. The use of Urdu and other non-Indic scripts on articles outside the scope of Pakistan-related articles, such as Indian articles, may be subsumed under WP:INDICSCRIPT.