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This '''Manual of Style''' ('''MoS''') is a brief style manual for all articles on this Wiki. When a MoS guideline offers a choice of style, use only one alternative consistently throughout an article, and do not unreasonably alter a choice that has already been made. If there are any changes or suggestions you think should be made to the MoS, visit the talk page to discuss them. These are by no means firm rules, but these suggestions help create consistent articles.

==Layout==

A [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Stub#Creating and improving a stub article|simple article]] should have, at least, (a) a lead section and (b) references. The following list includes additional standardized sections in an article. A complete article need not have all, or even most, of these elements.

# Before the article content

## {{tl|DISPLAYTITLE}}, {{tl|Lowercase title}}, {{tl|Italic title}} (some of these may also be placed before the infobox or after the infobox)

## [[Wikipedia:Hatnote|Hatnotes]]

## {{tl|Featured list}}, {{tl|Featured article}} and {{tl|Good article}} (where appropriate for article status)

## Deletion / protection tags ([[:Category:Candidates_for_deletion|deletion]] notices)

## [[Wikipedia:Infoboxes|Infoboxes]] (It is important that hatnotes and maintenance/dispute tags appear on the first page of the article. On the mobile site, the first paragraph of the lead section is moved above the infobox for the sake of readability. Since the infobox is generally more than one page long, putting hatnotes, etc., after it will result in them being placed after the first page, making them less effective.)

## Images

# Article content

## [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Lead section|Lead section]] (also called the introduction) ('''Boldface''' is often applied to the first occurrence of the article's title word or phrase in the lead. This is also done at the first occurrence of a term, commonly a synonym in the lead, that redirects to the article or one of its subsections, whether the term appears in the lead or not.)

## [[MediaWikiWiki:Manual:Table_of_contents|Table of contents]]

## Body

# Appendices

## [[#"See also" section|See also]]{{efn|name=Syntax|1=Syntax:

==See also==

* [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]

* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]]

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Which produces:

* [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]]

* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]]

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## Notes and references (this can be two sections in some citation systems)

## External links{{efn|name=Syntax}}

# {{anchor|End matter}}End matter

## [[MediaWikiWiki:Help:Categories|Categories]]{{efn|While categories are entered on the editing page ahead of stub templates, they appear on the visual page in a separate box after the stub templates. One of the reasons this happens is that every stub template generates a stub category, and those stub categories appear after the "main" categories. Another is that certain bots and scripts are set up to expect the categories, stubs and [[Help:Interlanguage links|interlanguage links]] to appear in that order, and will reposition them if they don't. Therefore, any manual attempt to change the order is futile unless the bots and scripts are also altered.}}

## [[Category:Article stub|Stub templates]]

==Capital letters==

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* [[Help:Editing_guide]] – an overview page that will answer all your editing-related questions

* Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Cheatsheet] – a page that provides the most commonly used wiki markup

==Notes==

[[Category:OWOT Wiki basic information]]