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* "Live-Action TV" for "Live-Action Television" in headers.
Not everyone is going to know what you think is an "obvious" abbreviation or acronym. (For example, there are hundreds if not thousands of people who hear "[[WWW]]" and ''don't'' immediately think of the [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|Wicked Witch of the West]].) There have been examples which we inherited from TV Tropes that were so filled with obscure and idiosyncratic abbreviations that they were all but unintelligible, and which took hours of research to decode into something readable. This kind of writing does not serve our core value of communicating clearly. If it's not a common term such as "etc." (et cetera, "and the rest") or "i.e." (id est, "that is"), ''spell it out clearly''. Never assume the reader will know what an abbreviation means.
And don't [[Pothole]] an abbreviation to what it means. If you can be bothered to code a potholed link, use the name of the page you're linking to, not an abbreviation.
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