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Citation of FWF posts refers to specific posts, not threads. Where the thread as a whole is cited as a general reference, there is no particular authorship. Suggest citation be of form where "Financial Planning" is the thread title. which gives

--Shakespeare 00:09, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

A new page template should now have   ; the first at the top and the last two at the bottom. Perhaps this could be incorporated into the text as a cut-and-paste.

Style
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On Style, I noticed Section headings have now been capitalized. There were original done following Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Section headings which indicates "The provisions in Article titles (above) generally apply to section headings as well (for example, headings are in sentence case, not title case).", although I'm not in complete agreement. It brings up the point of Style consistency across finiki and what guidance is provided to our editors --Peculiar Investor 19:42, 6 February 2012 (MST)
 * In general, I think most of finiki has -- headings with words capitalized. I figured it was easier to remain consistent with that than to change everything. Change as you wish.--Shakespeare 19:50, 6 February 2012 (MST)
 * Generally agree, when expanding an existing article, follow the existing style. It gets trickier when moving on to another article. In this case was dealing with a stub. That's when I reverted to the Manual of Style for guidance. Thinking this discussion should move to the Help:Guide For Contributors talk page --Peculiar Investor 19:58, 6 February 2012 (MST)

There is clearly a need extend Style guidelines in Guide for Contributors to address the issue of Style choices when editing an existing article, a new article or a stub. I would propose:

Existing article
Maintain consistency with Style of the current article, unless making significant changes, at which time it would make sense to resolve Style issues.

New article
Follow Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

Stub
Preference given to changing to be consistent with Wikipedia:Manual of Style, but some leeway given to person editing article. Comments or suggestions welcome --Peculiar Investor 20:48, 6 February 2012 (MST)

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I temporarily switched to the Monobook skin, the Vector skin toolbar was used in place of the prior toolbar. --LadyGeek 18:40, 28 October 2012 (MDT)