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This guide presents the typical layout of Wikipedia articles, including the sections an article usually has, ordering of sections, and formatting styles for various elements of an article. For advice on the use of wiki markup , see Help:Editing ; for guidance on writing style, see Manual of Style .
This is a dummy article to help you get started with creating pages in the wiki; please copy the code to a different page and edit it there. The first paragraph is usually a short dictionary-style definition of the subject matter.
The MediaWiki software that Wikipedia runs on uses Cascading Style Sheets in order to specify the style and layout that is suitable to a printed version of the page. In modern browsers, the print function of the browser should automatically use the rules in the style sheets when you print an article, therefore the print command of your web ...
The English-language titles of compositions (books and other print works, songs and other audio works, films and other visual media works, paintings and other artworks, etc.) are given in title case, in which every word is given an initial capital except for certain less important words (as detailed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters ...
Wikipedia:List of infoboxes for infoboxes, which are small panels that summarize key features of the page's subject. Wikipedia:Categorization for templates used for categories; Wikipedia:Citation templates for templates used to format article references and citations; Wikipedia:Requested templates, to request creation of a template.
Details how Wikipedia:Article titles applies within the text of articles. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid (MOS:SELF) How to avoid mentioning Wikipedia itself, or the fact the article is a webpage. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling (MOS:SPELLING) Not a guideline per se, but a handy guide to national varieties of English.
Printable version - displays the article by itself, without all the site navigation. See Help:Printable for details. Other languages - if an article exists on the same subject in any of the other hundred languages in Wikipedia, it should usually appear on a list of other language links in the sidebar too.
<noinclude>[[Category:Layout templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character. Pages in category "Layout templates"