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UN Style Guide: resolution or Resolution?

It seems quite certain that official UN style guidelines (which can be easily determined by trawling through verbatim records and existing resolutions - all maintained by the UN Secretariat), that a particular resolution should be referred to as "resolution n", not "... Resolution n". (This is particularly true in the plural.) An example of this is A/RES/377 A: "Recalling its resolution 290...". I am unable to find any links in the UN WikiProject pointing to a UN-specific style guide, to ensure that our words match theirs, but it would seem that this is necessary? The UNU Press actually has an official 'Style Guide', that alone might be adequate, but I can't find it on the web. I have emailed them asking for it to be made available on their site. --ElPax (talk) 01:11, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Have heard back from UNU:

"We are actually in the processing of shifting our preferred style to that of the Oxford Guide to Style, but have not put any such documentation on the website. For your reference, the main points of our style could be summarized as follows:

In general, United Nations University Press uses The Oxford Guide to Style and the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as its guides for all matters of style and spelling. Please see below some of the main elements to be followed.

Format

Prepare manuscripts in Times New Roman, 12 pt.

Main text should be double-spaced with one space between paragraphs.

Spelling

Follow spelling as given in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, latest edition. If more than one spelling is given, use the first form listed.

Punctuation

Enclose quoted matter using single quotation marks; use double quotation marks for a quotation within a quote.

Punctuation that is not part of the quoted material should fall outside the closing quotation mark.

Use a serial comma in a list of three or more items [a, b, and c].

Both en dashes and em dashes should be presented in an unspaced (closed up) form.

Numbers

For non-technical uses, spell out numbers from one through ninety-nine. Should a sentence have both numbers below 100 and equal to or above 100, present all numbers in Arabic form.

Dates

Dates should be presented in the order of day, month, year, without internal punctuation. [12 October 2000]

Lists

Enumerate lists in text with lowercase italic letters in roman parentheses [(a), (b), (c), etc.]

References

Follow the author–date (Harvard) reference system. Please consult The Oxford Guide to Style or numerous online sources for examples." —Preceding unsigned comment added by ElPax (talk • contribs) 06:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiStyle: "There are differences between the major varieties of English in the use of capitals (uppercase letters). Where this is an issue, the rules of the cultural and linguistic context apply". It would seem that the UN Orthography (/ UNU style guide?) provides the appropriate "linguistic context" in articles on the UN? Especially those that quote from verbatim records, which should obviously be copied as precisely as possible (this means UK/international English), meaning that consistency probably dictates the use of the same style throughout UN articles? ElPax (talk) 03:46, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

UN Style Guide: Article names

Current article naming inconsistencies, which can be seen on United Nations General Assembly resolution for example, lead to different names even for just Assembly resolutions (e.g. UN_General_Assembly_Resolution_194 v. United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_3314). Might be useful to have naming conventions? I would anticipate that UNSC_* and UNGA_* would be adequate prefixes for that purpose. First however, the previous issue of 'resolution' v. 'Resolution' is probably best addressed. --ElPax (talk) 05:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD

Capacity Development is up for discussion here. The creator of the article says "This is a UNDP created page based on www.undp.org/capacity". Thought y'all might want to weigh in :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 15:58, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hey guys, I have just created a Barnstar for Wikiproject United Nations, I just wanted to know what people thought of it before I put it up on the page, because i don't want to step on peoples toes, so just leave a comment, and tell me what you think. Taifarious1 11:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

		The United Nations Barnstar of Merit -
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Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Bush Doctrine background

Som consensus forming input is needed on Talk:Bush Doctrine#Bush Doctrine background. Please include your Wikipedian view there. Thanks. Scierguy (talk) 17:31, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for United Nations

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Portal FPOC

Portal:United Nations has been nominated for featured portal status here. --Joowwww (talk) 10:45, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

United Nations peer review

A peer review has been requested for the United Nations article here. You are welcome to add any suggestions/feedback on how to improve the page. Many thanks, --Joowwww (talk) 10:10, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Security counsil expantion, france position

spech of H.E. Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, President in the 63º assambly general, aproving a expansion and democratication of SC and G8, add that in Reform of the United Nations Security Council; (Sartozy is presidnte protempore of European Union when say that) sorry for my engrish:) i am fero in spanish wikipedia --201.255.29.40 (talk) 19:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

The Specific Intent to Commit Genocide

The above article may be of some interest to this project. -- Mattinbgn\^talk 07:58, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

A little notice

Hello, I'm not a member of this project, but I have a note to drop by. There is not a single article about any security council elections before 2006. This is clearly visible on documents with the {{United Nations elections}} template. please try to work on this as it's a suprise it's never been noticed before. Thank you.--Ipatrol (talk) 21:07, 19 October 2008 (UTC)