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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 .
Wikipedia's guidelines encourage you to provide information about yourself on the associated discussion page, but please permit other editors to add it to the article itself.
Talk pages are generally created by clicking a red "Talk" tab and creating the page, like any other page. Do not create an empty talk page simply so that one will exist for future use. There is no need to add discussion warning templates to every talk page, or even to every talk page that contains a discussion.
Do not put undue weight into one part of an article at the cost of other parts. In shorter articles, if one subtopic has much more text than another subtopic, that may be an indication the subtopic should have its own page, with only a summary presented on the main page.
This FAQ answers the most common questions about editing Wikipedia. Editing most Wikipedia pages is easy. Wikipedia uses two methods of editing: the new VisualEditor (VE), and classic editing through wiki markup (wikitext). The explanations on this page deal with wikitext editing (the method most used). For instructions on using VisualEditor see the VisualEditor user guide .
Help:Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics. This is a guide for subject experts who have worked as a researcher, scholar, or academic. Experts without an academic background may prefer . Help:Academic. If you are a professional researcher, engineer, mathematician, scholar, graduate student, or other academic, you are very ...
Taken to an extreme, there are basically two kinds of edits (other than removing vandalism, spam, and other problematic material): You can change the wording and/or formatting of an article, leaving the information in the article more or less intact.
Help:Footnotes - Wikipedia is a guide for adding citations and references to Wikipedia articles using footnotes. It explains how to use wikitext, templates, and tools to create different types of footnotes and reference groups. It also provides examples and tips for formatting and troubleshooting.