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Wording settles last, once the page's structure and claims have. The lint skill checks voice, links, punctuation, quotations, and prose flow after the review loop.

Voice

The voice is neutral and concrete. Numbers stand in place of evaluations, and the object is named: “exchanging dinars for forints” rather than “the exchange.” Wikipedia’s style guide is a useful reference.

Links

A link sits on the noun that names its subject in the sentence, not on a mention of the page that explains it. With the link markup removed, the sentence still makes sense.

  • by [the payment rules](page:N), not see [the payments page](page:N); the linked title carries no quotation marks.
  • A URL that points to one article is anchored on what the article did: the fact-checker Raskrinkavanje refuted the claim, rather than Raskrinkavanje refuted it.
  • Blocks on the same page carry no links to each other; the reader already has that page open.

Marks and paragraphs

In English, an em dash appears only where a comma, colon, period, or parentheses would change the meaning. Marks follow the punctuation rules of the language of the text: German commonly uses the dash for an aside, while Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian require it between a noun subject and predicate when the linking verb is absent.

Parallel items stand as a list rather than as consecutive one-line paragraphs, which a reader may take for steps.

Quoting

Source quotations stand in blockquotes, apart from the surrounding prose; a short example inside a sentence stays in quotation marks. A quotation in another language gives the original first and its translation in italics below it, inside the same blockquote.

> "Original sentence in the source's language."
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> *"Translation into the language of the page."*