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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 .
If you want to read some of Wikipedia's finest articles, have a look at Wikipedia:Featured articles. For information on how to cite sources, see Wikipedia:Citing sources . For our guidelines on style, see the Wikipedia:Manual of Style and its subsidiary pages, listed in its template.
WP:TEMPLATEINDEX. This page provides an index of templates used within Wikipedia, many of which convey messages; they are grouped into topic-specific headings. For information on what templates are, and how the template namespace is intended to be used, see WP:Template namespace. For information on template use and development, see Help:Template.
To mark those articles that can be an example for how articles should be, a template has been set up. This template is called { { good }}. It can be added to articles that meet the requirements listed below, and that have been voted on by the community. In other Wikipedia projects, such articles are also called good articles .
To provide a date use: { { DelistedGA |insert date in any format here}}. Good articles/Templates was nominated as a good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (No date specified. To provide a date use: { { FailedGA |insert date in any format here}} ). There are suggestions below for improving the article.
- Style-modified version of GAList
- Quick-failure message for articles that lack neutrality
- The article XYZ you nominated as a good article has _______ .
- (not suitable for substitution)
For full description of a template and the parameters which can be used with it— click the template name (e.g. { { Citation }} or { { cite xxx }}) in the " template " column of the table below. Required field (s) are indicated in bold. Copy and paste the text under " common usage " to use the template.
Step #2: Methods To Create A Wikipedia Page. To create a Wikipedia page you need to access a page title. Now for that four basic methods are followed. Method 1- Searching. You enter the text in the search box and double-check of the title already exists. If it does, you will not be allowed to recreate a page.
