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Wikipedia:Third opinion/Instructions

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Remember:

  1. Only two editors involved
  2. Concise and neutral description of the disagreement
  3. Include a wikilink to the article's talk page with a "#section" link for the specific article talk page section in which the dispute is occurring.
  4. Sign with five tildes (~~~~~)
  5. Start your entry with a number sign/hash (#) directly below the previous entry.
An example entry before wiki-formatting:
# [[Talk:Style guide#"Descriptive" style guides]]. Disagreement about the existence of nonprescriptive [[style guide]]s. ~~~~~
This will be displayed as:
1. Talk:Style guide#"Descriptive" style guides. Disagreement about existence of the nonprescriptive style guides. 17:54, 27 October 2004 (UTC)
Also, be sure to provide a notification of your post requesting a third opinion on the other editor's Talk page. It is suggested that your notification include a link to the posting section as follows: [[Wikipedia:Third opinion#Active disagreements]]