Explanatory essay about the Wikipedia:Manual of Style
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Please place suggestions on the Talk page. The objective is to keep the focus of each tip narrow and to express it simply and briefly.
Use quotation marks or block quotes (not both) to distinguish long quotations from other text. Multiparagraph quotations are always block-quoted. The quotations must be precise and exactly as in the source (except for certain allowable typographical changes). The source should be cited clearly and precisely to enable readers to locate the text in question, and to quote it accurately themselves from Wikipedia.
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