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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    The lead section may contain optional elements presented in the following order: short description, disambiguation links (dablinks/hatnotes), maintenance tags, infoboxes, special character warning box, images, navigational boxes (navigational templates), introductory text, and table of contents, moving to the heading of the first section.

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Tagging a (hexa)decimal code with the template {} will enable future editors to review the page, and to Unicodify the character if it is included in future expansions of Unicode. This happened, for example, at strident vowel, where a non-Unicode symbol for the sound was used in the literature and added to the PUA of SIL's IPA fonts. Unicode ...

  4. Help:Wikitext - Wikipedia

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    An example of hidden comments This won't be visible except in "edit" mode. --> Another way to include a comment in the wiki markup uses the {} template, which can be abbreviated as {}. This template "expands" to the empty string, generating no HTML output; it is visible only to people editing the wiki source.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly. If a word can be replaced by one with less potential for misunderstanding, it should be. [1] Some words have specific technical meanings in some contexts and are acceptable in those contexts, e.g. claim in law.

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Layout

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    Sections usually consist of paragraphs of running prose, each dealing with a particular point or idea. Single-sentence paragraphs can inhibit the flow of the text; by the same token, long paragraphs become hard to read. Between paragraphs—as between sections—there should be only a single blank line. First lines are not indented.

  7. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    The very short final line of a paragraph composed of a single word (highlighted blue) is a runt. The first line of a paragraph beginning at the end of a page (highlighted green) is called an orphan (sometimes called a widow). The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan).

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lists

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    Use proper markup: Employ careful wiki markup- or template-based list code (see Help:List for many pointers). Especially do not leave blank lines between items in a list, since this causes the MediaWiki software to misinterpret each item as beginning a new list. (There are HTML techniques to insert linebreaks or additional paragraphs into a ...

  9. Help:Advanced text formatting - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with line-height 1.5 is easier to read: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type ...