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When a section is a summary of another article that provides a full exposition of the section, a link to the other article should appear immediately under the section heading. You can use the {{ Main }} template to generate a "Main article" link, in Wikipedia's "hatnote" style.
Conventional outlines use indents to indicate levels in the hierarchy. Wikipedia outlines use indents too, but also employ section headings to represent levels as well. In outline articles, the top few levels are usually represented by section headings, with levels further down consisting of indented list entries.
The main headings in the article are second level headings, defined with two equals signs in the wikitext. You never need to use the top-level heading style, defined with one equals sign, as it is reserved for article titles.
Wikipedia article titles and section headings use sentence case, not title case; see Wikipedia:Article titles and § Section headings. For capitalization of list items, see § Bulleted and numbered lists. Other points concerning capitalization are summarized below. Full information can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters.
Instead, the first paragraph of the section should mention—and link to—that article. (Links in headings also cause accessibility problems for visually impaired readers using special software to read Wikipedia articles.) Don't put a footnote into a section heading. It looks ugly, and since a heading should be a noun clause, not a sentence ...
The lead section is the very first part of an article, appearing before the table of contents and any headings. The first sentence of the lead typically contains a concise definition and establishes the topic's notability. The rest of the lead should introduce the article's context and summarise its key points.
Please do not use a "level one" heading (only one equals sign on each side, i.e.: =Heading=). This would cause a section heading as large as the page title at the top of the page. Heading names of sections (including subsections) should be unique on a page. Using the same heading more than once on a page causes problems:
Articles use headings, paragraphs, bulleted lists, etc. However, please take care not to set up a user page that anyone could mistake for an actual article (this is discouraged here ). When you come across an editor ( Wikipedian ) who seems experienced and sensible, take a look at their user page to see if there are design elements you could ...