Title and Description Questions

I have a number of questions that don't seem to be clear in the Editor Resource Zone Home>Sites>Titles or in the Open Directory Editing Guidelines.

1. Are words like "Limited", "Incorporated", and "Association" to be written out or put in the abbreviated form?

2. Are abbreviated forms like Inc., Lim., and Assoc. to be followed by a period or not?

3. Are combined abbreviated forms like Assoc. and Inc. to be separated with a comma when they run together (i.e. Assoc., Inc.)?

4. In some cases you find different forms of the company name, abbreviations, and title punctuation in the title header tag, logo, h1 tag, or at the bottom of the home page. In issues like abbreviated forms, periods after abbreviated words, and comma's between title words, which form is to be selected if they are found to be different in different places on the home page or on other pages in the site?

Preferred style can vary by category. This isn't a life and death matter though. If the site is listable and the editor wants to amend the title, s/he will. This particular topic really isn't worth agonising over.

jimnoble: Ok great so either or, it's all up to the editor. Thanks!

bobmutch said:

2. Are abbreviated forms like Inc., Lim., and Assoc. to be followed by a period or not?

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As a tiny side note, the abbreviation "Lim." wouldn't help an Australian user much, our standard abbreviation for a Limited company is "Ltd."

I've never heard of Lim. as an abbreviation for Limited. Ltd is the more usual one...and not just in Australia. I think bobmutch may have mistyped it.

Yes, some kind of a mental slip there. It should say Ltd.