Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pakistan-related articles
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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.
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 {{tl|Convert}} template can be useful for this.
- You may use the Pakistani numbering system of lakhs and 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 =
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Consensus and common practice among WikiProject Pakistan editors is that the lead sentence of an article may contain Urdu or other transliterations in regional script(s) such as Shahmukhi, Perso-Arabic, Naskh etc., where applicable or relevant. IPA may be used additionally to aid pronunciation. Articles under the scope of WikiProject Pakistan are not covered under 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.