User talk:Sbb/Glossary of photography terms

Original preferred styles

For the purposes of style debates (MOS:RETAIN, MOS:STYLERET), the following are hopefully clear choices for the style of this article:

• MOS:STYLERET, MOS:ENGVAR – The body text of this glossary uses American English. However, if a specific term is clearly most frequently spelled with a British variant, it should be used that way. Based on my unscientific sampling, most photographic terms I see referenced on the internet use American English (such as polarizer, diopter, etc.). Color vs. colour, gray vs. grey, are equally used, and therefore arbitrary. Thus, the body text uses American English. Definition terms should identify and anchor both variants as much as possible, and should be marked-up with {{lang|en-US}} and {{lang|en-GB}} as appropriate. Don't markup a term definition with {{lang|en-US}} if there isn't a corresponding British English spelling term.
• MOS:DATERET, MOS:DATEUNIFY – Dates should {{Use dmy dates}} format (dd Mmm YYYY). Yes, this is not typically American date format. But MDY date format is dumb. As always, ISO-8601 date formats (YYYY-MM-DD) can be used in {{cite XXX}} templates. Speaking of...
• MOS:CITEVAR, Citation style – Citation Style 1.
• Inline references – Prefer <ref>{{harvnb}}/{{harvc}}</ref> or {{sfn}}. Inline <ref>{{cite}}</ref> for singleton references.
• Year disambiguation for multi-volume references – For example, Willard Morgan's Encyclopedia of Photography is 20 volumes, published (and republished) over multiple years. So regardless of the year of the reference, I've been giving a letter corresponding to the volume ('a' through 't') to the |date= parameter. That way, if one citation finds volume 15 in 1964 and another citation finds volume 15 published in 1968 (hypothetically), they would each be cited as {{sfn|Morgan|1964o}} and {{sfn|Morgan|1968o}}, even though [a–n] weren't necessarily used for "Morgan" references those years. It just seems to make it easier to reference multi-volumes-over-multiple-years works like that.
• Values / units – as much as possible, prefer using {{val}} for numbers with associated units. I.e., "35 mm" -> {{val|35|u=mm}}; {{val|100|-|400|u=mm}} -> 100–400 mm. For inch-dimensions, such as 1" sensor or 8" × 10", use {{1|u=in}} (1 in) and {{val|8|x|10|u=in}} (8 in × 10 in).
• Special characters
  • Aperture – use {{f/}} for f-numbers. {{f/|2}} -> f/2.
  • Times – use × instead of x for times: 4×, not 4x

 — sbb (talk) 08:08, 16 September 2023 (UTC)