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tyle) established by WikiProject European Union (and hence may extend to WikiProject Europe due to similar membership and nature). These relate to articles within the scope of said project but may be overruled in the following circumstances; where formal Knowledge policy conflicts with WP:EU
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guidelines, where there is a substantial consensus among editors for a different approach and where our guidelines conflict with that of another project involved with the page (agreement must be reached among editors on how to compromise).
245:). The European date format is date month year, as opposed to the US format which swaps the date and month (see example below). Following Knowledge preferences, we also do not put a comma between the date and month, and the year. 240:
In the same manner as above, we follow European date formats. This is following Knowledge policy renouncing auto-formatting (so they are no longer formatted to the user's preference) and removing the date links (see
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Avoid beginning articles names with "European Union..." for things which are specific to the EU and where "European Union" is not part of the official name. If disambiguation is required, use appropriate brackets.
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Common names for legislation are to be preferred over official names. Official names of legal acts are very long and would be unfamiliar to most readers. Moreover, while EU legal acts don't contain short titles
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NB the actual official name is "Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information
160:. This aids with the use of sources from Europe that use this style, our editors who are from Europe and further providing consistency in our articles. 218: 95: 115: 103: 368:"Copyright Directive" instead of "Directive on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society" 119: 107: 87: 111: 448: 156:
in the EU and Europe, the project prefers to use that style for its pages as opposed to other regional styles, for example
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Notes: By comparison "European Union law" is a perfectly acceptable variation of "Law of the European Union".
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Knowledge policy supports the use of the style of grammar related to the topic. Due the prevalence of
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Notes: Where disambiguation is required the official code can be used: "X Directive (200x/xx/EC)"
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In the interest of consistency, please use the established
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Does anyone know of any other copyright directives?
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WikiProject European Union

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WP:EU/MOS
Main page
Talk
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Portal
Assessment
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Collaboration
Peer reviews
Templates
British-Irish English
American English
American and British English spelling differences
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Knowledge:Date § Dates
MOS:UNLINKYEARS
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European Parliamentary
Linguistic issues concerning the euro

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