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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.
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.
Both of these are in italics and indented to distinguish them from the text of the article proper. The Disambiguation and redirection templates and Wikipedia page-section templates automatically provide the required italic formatting. Special section headings for appendices such as ==See also== are not in italics.
Section name on the talk page for further discussion. Line: optional: Make template small: small: Enter any text here to make the template box small and aligned to the left. Example y: Line: optional: Reason: reason: Additional information about the specific issues with original research in the article. Example Paragraph two is unsourced ...
Typically only the first word in a heading is capitalised (sentence case). Heading 1 is the article's title and is automatically generated. The section headings in the article start at the second level (==Heading 2==), with subsections at the third level (===Heading 3===), and so on.
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 ...
Section headings. Type two equal signs at the beginning and two more at the end of a line of text. (If you create at least four headings, Wikipedia automatically creates a table of contents, as you'll see in a moment.) Boldface. Type three apostrophes (') before and after the text you want to bold. Italic. Type two apostrophes (') before and ...