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-The purpose of this page is to document the stylistic guidelines about which the&nbsp;FamilySearch Wiki community has reached consensus.&nbsp;New proposals for the Manual of Style can&nbsp;be&nbsp;vetted on the [[FamilySearch_Wiki_talk:Manual_of_Style|Discussion]] page.&nbsp;
+This page links to other pages describing stylistic guidelines which have reached consensus among the&nbsp;FamilySearch Wiki community.&nbsp;
+== Process to&nbsp;transform a style idea to a wiki-wide guideline  ==
+If you have a stylistic idea&nbsp;that you feel should be adopted on many&nbsp;wiki pages, you can follow a&nbsp;procedure to try to transform your idea into a site-wide guideline. For instance, if you feel&nbsp;every page on the wiki should have a&nbsp;green background, you would follow these steps:
+#Create a new page called ''FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages''.
+#Link to ''FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages'' from [[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Manual of Style|FamilySearch Wiki talk:Manual of Style]].
+#Add to ''Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages'' a short blurb which objectively describes the proposal and which links to ''FamilySearch Wiki '''talk''':Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages ''(this is the Discussion section of the page you created).
+#Add to the Discussion page (''FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages)'' the&nbsp;reasons why you feel your idea should be&nbsp;adopted. You needn't&nbsp;speak objectively on&nbsp;the discussion page -- you are trying to convince others that your idea is a good one.&nbsp;
+#Invite others to add to the discussion page any reasons why they like or dislike the proposal, or how they might improve it.
+#When consensus is reached, transfer relevant details of the discussion from the discussion page to&nbsp;''FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages''.
+#Create a link from [[FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style|FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style]] to ''FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages''.
+#Remove the link to ''FamilySearch Wiki '''talk''':Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages'' from [[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Manual of Style|FamilySearch Wiki talk:Manual of Style]].
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