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Demonstration: Tidy references

Demonstration: Tidy references

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Demonstration: Tidy references

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- [Man] In this demonstration we're going to look at making sure that the people and the entities, things like organizations are introduced properly and gracefully because in our piece it's been a big concern for me particularly how the health ministers reference, references to the health minister are handled, and other things this is a, there is a bit of a different ways of introducing them, different words used in the title. For arguments sake I'm going to assume that his exact full title is The Minister for Health, Nutrition, and Indigenous Medicine. And, so that's something I'm going to be paying attention to as we go through this. The first reference to a person is Ravi Fernando and that's really fine, we've given his full name right at the beginning, okay. Then we come to this reference to The World Health Organization, around here and that's also okay, because that's the full title of the organization. Now, if we had just called it WHO I might have wanted to spell out in the…

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