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A "page name" is just how things work here, to title, link and transclude any page. So in fact most pages on Wikipedia have a page name with the form Namespace:Pagename, where Pagename (without a middle space) is simply the subject, and obviously different to page name (with a middle space
If you are new to Wikipedia, you might consider using the standard article format for your userpage initially. That should suffice while you're learning the ropes. If you don't have a user page yet and don't know how to create a page, then click on your user name at the top of the screen and follow the instructions (if the page already exists, your username will be blue instead of red).
Page names are used to title pages, to navigate to pages, to search for pages, and for things like transclusion and substitution. Page names also conveniently serves as link names in wikitext, if enclosed in double square brackets, like [[Page name]]. If a page is moved, the page name will also move.
The name or names given in the first sentence do not always match the article title. By the design of Wikipedia's software, an article can only have one title. When this title is a name, significant alternative names for the topic should be mentioned in the article, usually in the first sentence or paragraph.
Heading names: Editors may use any reasonable section and subsection names that they choose. [ k ] The most frequent choice is "References". Other options, in diminishing order of popularity, are "Notes", "Footnotes" or "Works cited", although these are more often used to distinguish between multiple end-matter sections or subsections.
If the image to be captioned is a painting, an editor can give context with the painter's wikilinked name, the title, and a date. The present location may be added in parentheses: . Sometimes the date of the image is important: there is a difference between "King Arthur" and "King Arthur in a 19th-century watercolor".
When used, it will return the name of the page it's on, but without the namespace. As an example, when placed on this page, it returns PAGENAME. When placed on Wikipedia:Village pump, it will return Village pump. It is possible to specify which pagename will appear by using a colon (not a pipe as is typical for templates).
As Wikipedia articles were and are usually in the first page returned by search engines, if an alternative less popular name is chosen, the page will usually still appear in the first page of an internet search (there are exceptions: when Popski's Private Army was moved to its official name, it failed to show up on the first page of internet ...