Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Writing better articles (section)

== Use other languages sparingly ==
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It is fine to include foreign terms as extra information, but avoid writing articles that can only be understood if the reader understands the foreign terms. Such words are equivalent to [[jargon]], which should be [[Wikipedia:Explain jargon|explained]] somehow. In the English-language Wikipedia, the English form does not always have to come first: sometimes the non-English word is better as the main text, with the English in parentheses or set off by commas after it, and sometimes not. For example, see [[Perestroika]].

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Non-English words in the English-language Wikipedia should be written in ''italics'', with the exception of non-Latin scripts such as Greek, Cyrillic, and Chinese. Non-English words should be used as titles for entries [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)|only as a last resort]]. Again, see [[Perestroika]].

English title terms taken from a language that does not use the Roman alphabet can include the native spelling in parentheses. See, for example, [[I Ching]] ({{zh|t=易經|s=易经|p=Yìjīng}}) or [[Sophocles]] ({{langx|grc|Σοφοκλῆς}}). The native spelling is useful for precisely identifying foreign words, since transliterations may be inaccurate or ambiguous. Foreign terms within the article body do not need native spellings if they can be specified as title terms in separate articles; just link to the appropriate article on first occurrence.