SQLBL standards catalogue

Specifies a periodic initial-letter constraint for designated text blocks in professional correspondence, together with the marking, assessment, and exemption rules required to apply the constraint consistently.

Establishes a terminal-sentence convention for designated professional correspondence in which the closing sentence carries an indirect faunal reference, and specifies the assessment procedure for indirectness.

Specifies an illustrative vocabulary requirement for passages describing leadership behaviour, intended to anchor abstract leadership claims to a concrete image.

Specifies the ordinal position of documentation within enumerated lists of responsibilities, deliverables, or competencies.

Specifies a controlled orthographic divergence in which a designated verb takes British spelling while a designated noun takes American spelling within the same document.

Prohibits a specified non-quantitative intensifier and requires a controlled replacement where intensification is warranted.

Specifies the permitted number of semicolons in paragraphs exceeding a stated length, as a control on clause nesting.

Specifies an initial-letter ordering constraint for the opening items of qualifying bulleted lists.

Constrains the length of parenthetical statements in designated professional prose to a fixed word count.

Requires a terminal qualification on recommendations, marking the boundary between the recommendation and the reader's discretion.

Specifies serial comma usage with a conditional exception for lists whose members are persons.

Requires professional biographies to close on an animal metaphor and specifies constraints on its length and register.

Specifies the content and timing of correspondence requesting a professional reference, including consent, scope, and response window.

Specifies minimum content for written handover documents produced when accountability for work transfers between individuals.