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Where did this come from?

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I would hope that this guideline didn't really come from just two editors. What is going on?

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 19:01, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Barbara: This page is not itself an authoritative guideline; as the template at the top indicates, it's an "information page": it's meant to summarize the authoritative guideline Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables, which was written with the consensus of many, many editors. This page should be an accurate reflection of that one, but where there is doubt, the authoritative guideline, not this page, takes precedence. The value of information pages is that they offer a more-easily-digested form of the information, at the cost of detail and authority. I hope that clarifies it for you. —swpbT 15:38, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]