<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Yes! This is a motion to use <a href="https://developers.google.com/style/" target="_blank">Google Developer Documentation Style Guide</a> with the <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/" target="_blank">Merriam-Webster </a>dictionary</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 11:47 AM Clarence Cromwell <<a href="mailto:clarencewcromwell@gmail.com">clarencewcromwell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That might be a worthy alternative. Is this a motion, and if so, what dictionary would go with it?<br><br><div id="gmail-m_7450738962197459613AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Aug 7, 2019, at 11:43 AM, Stephanie Blotner <<a href="mailto:sblotner59@gmail.com" target="_blank">sblotner59@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">What about the <a href="https://developers.google.com/style/" target="_blank">Google Developer Documentation Style Guide</a>? </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:20 AM Clarence Cromwell <<a href="mailto:clarencewcromwell@gmail.com" target="_blank">clarencewcromwell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I move that we adopt the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/" target="_blank">Microsoft Style Guide</a> and the <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/" target="_blank">Merriam-Webster </a>dictionary for The Good Docs project, and that we apply them to whatever writing is generated by the project (our web site and our official templates) but that we don't demand that anyone use a guide for contributing a collection of templates, as they are source material.<div><br></div><div>(I would emphasize that we only have to apply the style guide to material before we publish it, so that doesn't even require that people learn it before contributing; anyone who doesn't have the time, could allow an editor to clean up contributions according to the style guide.)<br><div><br></div><div>Reasoning: </div><div><ul><li>We need to all work from a single standard. </li><li>These guides are available for free online. </li><li>The Microsoft Guide is specific to technical writing, and is widely accepted in the industry.</li></ul><div>If there are strong feelings about using a different guide, I would suggest a counter-motion naming a specific set of books, so that people can vote for one or the other, and then we can get on with business. </div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_7450738962197459613gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Stephanie Blotner</div><div><br></div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Stephanie Blotner</div><div><br></div></div></div>