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The lead section of a Wikipedia article is the section before the first heading. The table of contents, if displayed, generally appears between the lead section and the first subheading. Rule of thumb: If a topic deserves a heading or subheading, then it deserves short mention in the lead. The lead section should contain up to four paragraphs, depending on the length of the article, and should provide a preview of the main points the article will make, summarizing the primary reasons the subject matter is interesting or notable. The lead should be capable of standing alone as a concise overview of the article, should be written in a clear and accessible style, should be carefully sourced like the rest of the text, and should encourage the reader to want to read more. The following table has some general guidelines for the length of the lead section:
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Style
Policy
- Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines
- Wikipedia:List of policies
- Wikipedia:How_to_create_policy
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Deletion_policy with links to the various kinds of review for deletion.
- Articles for Deletion in three steps
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources
Guidelines
Citations
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Wiki markup
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Footnotes the <ref> system.
- Wikipedia:Citation templates
- Template:Fact - for a variety of "citation needed" notations.
- Reference generator (toolserver.org)
Reference Resources
Good and Feature Articles
- Wikipedia:What is a featured article?
- User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
- Wikipedia:Good articles/Nominations
- User:AndyZ/Suggestions Advice for any Good Article or Featured Article candidate.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment_FAQ On Ratings of articles
- Some Suggestions on Peer Review
- Wikipedia:Peer review/Automated#Laurence Olivier
How-to, Templates, formatting, CSS classes, and wikimedia keyword commands
- User:Shanes/Why_tags_are_evil
- Category:Wikipedia_how-to
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
- Wikipedia:Template messages/General
- Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page
- Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace
- Help:Template
- Template:Todo The "todo" template
- Template:Tasks The typical tasks list
- Wikipedia:Magic_words
- Wikipedia:Redirect Redirect reason categories
- Wikipedia:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes
- Wikipedia:NavFrame
- MediaWiki:Common.css
- Wikipedia:Useful_styles
- Category:Wikipedia_templates
- Wikipedia:EasyTimeline Access to timeline creation resources.
- Wikipedia:Redirect Supplemental comments for redirects, categorizing the redirect.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Templates
- Wikipedia:EasyTimeline Timelines and how to make them
- Barchart template example:
- strapline boxes example
Categories
- Wikipedia:Categorization
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes
- Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion
Wiki edit, status analysis tools
- Wikipedia:Tools
- Help:Special_page
- Prefix Index Article and directory locators
- Edit counter
- Contribution tree
- Interiot's Edit Count & Graph
- Wikipedia:Tools#Browsing and editing
- Toolserver: link check & more
- Wanna be Kate Edits analysis tool
- Article edits analysis
- Toolserver Table of Contents
- Article Traffic counts
- Wiki Blame
Non-wiki tools
- NYTimes article link converter to non-pay access
- Fomat to cite United States Code: {{USC|Title number|Section number}} See Template:UnitedStatesCode.
Essays, and Collaboration
- Template:Polltop and Template:Pollbottom for marking a poll closed.
- Category:Wikipedia_essays Wikipedia Essays
- A group is its own worst Enemy Clay Sharkey. July 1, 2003.
- Wikipedia:Resolving disputes
- Wikipedia:Content forking
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- A model policy for lists and standard setting
- Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Deprecating "Future" templates
Administration
Projects, resources, etc.
- Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
- Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. States
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam
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