Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pakistan-related articles

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 it is best treated with common sense, and 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:History
  for 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.

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
  crores
  but 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 dollar
  equivalents in parentheses.

Nastaliq script

Consensus and common practice among

. 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.

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Arabic#Urdu
• Template:Indic script lede