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ARTICLE TITLES
• Titles are generally
nouns
or
noun phrases
(Effects of the wild, not
About the effects of the wild).• Titles should be short—preferably fewer than ten words.• The initial letter of a title is capitalized (except in very rare cases, such as
eBay). Otherwise, capitalletters are used only where they would be used in a normal sentence (Funding of UNESCOprojects, not
Funding of UNESCO Projects).• Do not use
a,
an, or
the
as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not
The economy of theSecond Empire), unless by convention it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague).• Avoid special characters such as the slash (/), plus sign (+), braces ({ }), and square brackets ([ ]);use
and
instead of an ampersand (&), unless the ampersand is an accepted part of a name(Emerson, Lake & Palmer).
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SECTION HEADINGS
• Headings provide an overview in the table of contents and allow readers to navigatethrough the text more easily.• Should NOT explicitly refer to the subject of the article (ie. "Early life"
is preferable to "His earlylife"
when
his
refers to the subject of the article).• Capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest inlower case (ie.
Rules and regulations, not
Rules and Regulations).• Avoid special characters such as the slash (/), plus sign (+), braces ({ }), and square brackets ([ ]);use
and
instead of an ampersand (&).•Should be unique within the page / Should NOT contain links.
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LAYOUT
•Lead Section -
An introductory text that will also serve as an overviewor abstract for the following paragraphs.
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QUOTATIONS
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Single or Double Quotations: Enclose quotations with double quotes (Bob said, "Jim ate the apple.").Enclose quotations w/in quotations w/ single quotes (Bob said, "Did Jim say 'I ate the apple' after he left?").•
Block Quotations: Format a long quote (more than four lines, or consisting of more than oneparagraph, regardless of number of lines) as ablock quotation, which Wikimedia's software willindent from both margins. Do not enclose block quotations in quotation marks (and especiallyavoid decorative quotation marks in normal use, such as those provided by the {{cquote}}template, which are reserved for forpull quotes). Block quotations can be enclosedbetween a pair of <blockquote>...</blockquote> HTML tags.
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•Write out both the full version and the abbreviation at first occurrence.For example: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).•The first time the term concerned is mentioned, it is bold faced.
TEXTS
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PUTTING IMAGES
All images must1) include a CAPTION2) be aligned with the layout3) not be too big4) be carefully distributed throughout the article5) be CITED properly. Include source details and acopyrighttagon the image description page
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
For each page with more than three headings, a table of contents (TOC) is automatically generated fromthe section headings.This part helps the viewers in two ways:1)It organizes the data to create a structure by which the article is to understood, and2)It provides links for the viewers to immediately jump to a certain part of the article if they wish to.
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