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An indefinite or definite article is capitalized only when at the start of a title, subtitle, or embedded title or subtitle. For example, a book chapter titled "An Examination of The Americans : The Anachronisms in FX's Period Spy Drama" contains three capitalized leading articles (main title "An", embedded title " The ", and subtitle "The").
This first occurrence of the term should also usually be linked if it has its own article (or section, or glossary entry) corresponding exactly to the meaning when used in the present article. Italics may also be used where <dfn> tags or {{ dfn }} templates mark a term's first use, definition, introduction, or distinguished meaning on the page.
The established variety in a given article can be documented by placing the appropriate variety of English template on its talk page. An article should not be edited or renamed simply to switch from one variety of English to another. {{subst:uw-engvar}} may be placed on an editor's talk page to explain this.
This template is used as an edit notice for to indicate various styles within an article. english: English variant ; date: Body date style mdy: month day year (December 22, 2024) dmy: day month year (22 December 2024) cite: Full citation style apa: APA style; chicago: The Chicago Manual of Style; mla: The MLA Style Manual
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 {} template to generate a "Main article" link, in Wikipedia's "hatnote" style.
adding citation templates to an article that already uses a consistent system without templates, or removing citation templates from an article that uses them consistently; changing where the references are defined, e.g., moving reference definitions in the reflist to the prose, or moving reference definitions from the prose into the reflist.
However, where the subject of an article is best known in English-language sources by its non-English name (e.g., Taj Mahal, Champs-Élysées), the non-English title may be appropriate for the article. Relevant non-English names, such as those of people who do not write their names in English, are encouraged. If the subject of the article is ...
The opposite of an inline citation is what the English Wikipedia calls a general reference. This is a bibliographic citation, often placed at or near the end of an article, that is unconnected to any particular bit of material in an article, but which might support some or all of it.