WP:Update/1/General style changes during November 2008

WP:Accessibility
Added example code for user's monobook.js page to show footnotes in full sized text.
Added advice on "colspan", "rowspan", and "non-text comment" in tables.

WP:Avoid neologisms
Added WP:NPOV to the list of policies in the sentence "Articles that use neologisms should be edited to ensure they conform with the core Wikipedia policies: no original research and verifiability"

WP:Avoid peacock terms
Added the words "long", "mediocre", "primary" and "short" to the list of words to watch out for
Added mention of adding {{tl|Peacock term}} to a peacock term in a sentence.

Wikipedia:External links
Remove the repeated "it" from list at the beginning of the "What to link" section.
Rewording of instruction not to link to advertisement pages, clarifying that it refers to the page (not the site)
Clarification in the instruction not to link to "search result" pages

Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
In Spelling section, added list of talk page banners to indicate that an article uses American, Australian, British or Canadian spelling
Added a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors

Wikipedia:Lead section
Added "Lead sections that reflect or expand on sections in other articles are discussed at Summary style. Journalistic conventions for lead sections are discussed at News style."
Removed reference to the Wikipedia DVD.
Added See also link to Wikipedia's Good definition policy; removed a recent See also link.

Wikipedia:Manual of Style
"Edits correcting deviations from written style guidelines should not be reverted" was softened a bit to "revert-warring over optional styles is unacceptable"; other points in this section were rephrased, but not significantly.
Added subsections: WP:MOS#Apostrophes, WP:MOS#Semicolons, and WP:MOS#Punctuation at the end of a sentence
Expanded subsection: WP:MOS#Colons
Additional information on question marks, exclamation points, and hyphens
The discussion on linking dates continues.
Names of currencies are usually lowercased.
"address readers directly" is now linked to Imperative mood.
Added link to Wikipedia:Image use policy
Many changes to WP:MOS#Images
WP:MOS#Bulleted and numbered lists gives more advice on punctuation.

WP:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
Page is protected pending resolution of date-linking issues.
Added regarding YYYY-MM-DD style dates: "(If the only purpose why they are used in a particular table is ease of comparison, consider using {{tlx|sort|2008-11-01|1 November 2008}}.)"

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)
Added: "Keeping possessive apostrophes inside the link, where possible, makes for more readable text and source".
Added this sentence, along with supporting reference: "Because academic research conducted in 2008 has shown that red links are what drives Wikipedia growth, it is important not to deal with type #1 red links [for articles not yet created] by simply removing their brackets."
Changed a link to :Category:Language icon templates
The discussion on linking dates continues.