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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.
Don't use "a", "an" or "the" as the first word in a section title (unless it's part of a proper noun). Thus, "Condition of the frescos," not "The condition of the frescos." Don't use boldface or italic text for emphasis. The only time you can use italics is for the rare occasions when a book, magazine, or similar title occurs within a heading.
Edit a section of an article, not the entire article (editing of sections is discussed in the 'Editing article sections' section). Click the "history" tab to see if an article is getting a lot of edits; if so, do a series of small (quick) edits rather than trying to do a lot of changes within a single edit.
A title should be a recognizable name or description of the topic, balancing the criteria of being natural, sufficiently precise, concise, and consistent with those of related articles. For formatting guidance see the Wikipedia:Article titles § Article title format section, noting the following:
In the HTML code for each section there is an "id" attribute holding the section title. This enables linking directly to sections. These section anchors are automatically used by MediaWiki when it generates a table of contents for the page, and therefore when a section heading in the ToC is clicked, it will jump to the section.
Originally, I italicized “Harry Potter” in the sub-section header (per WP:MOS-T) because it is the title of a work of art (series of novels). My edits were changed back by GearedBull , and his edit summary included this text: "...removed italicization of Harry Potter, does not meet wiki MOS criteria for use of italics."
header – A coloured bar bearing a title and placed above one or more lines within the succession box. Headers categorise succession lines into thematic groups. pipe – The pipe character ("|") separates parameters from the template name and from one another. It is also necessary for pipe-linking.
Text can be made bold or italic using the B and I buttons on the toolbar. To create bold or italics without using the toolbar, put text between ' apostrophes; three on each side for bold, or two on each side for italics. '''bold''' ''italic'' An article's subject should always be written in bold the first time it is mentioned, but not thereafter.