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An article may end with Navigation templates and footer navboxes, such as succession boxes and geography boxes (for example, {{Geographic location}}). Most navboxes do not appear in printed versions of Wikipedia articles. [l] For navigation templates in the lead, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section § Sidebars.
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.
Articles start with a lead section (WP:CREATELEAD) summarising the most important points of the topic.The lead section is the first part of the article; it comes above the first header, and may contain a lead image which is representative of the topic, and/or an infobox that provides a few key facts, often statistical, such as dates and measurements.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond (WIKISOO) Past courses: ...
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 ...
A look at how to assess the shortcomings of an article and improve it (4m 22s) Article assessments Article evolution An exploration of the standard article assessment system, with examples of each quality level (11m 30s) A trip through the history of an article, from humble beginnings to Good Article status (6m 25s
access-date in same format as dates in body of article. either author, or last and first to produce last, first. Don't wikilink these; instead use author-link to link to the appropriate wikipedia article. Does not work with URLs. More authors can be added as author2 author3 etc. as can first, last pairs of parameters. When there are multiple ...
Don't write an article if you have a conflict of interest because of a personal or professional connection to the topic of the article. Publish your draft When your draft is ready, you have two options for publishing it: you can do so directly yourself, or ask another editor to review it first.