Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
When it is useful to sub-divide these sections (for example, to separate a list of magazine articles from a list of books), this should be done using level 3 headings (===Books===) instead of definition list headings (;Books), as explained in the accessibility guidelines.
"The allies" above is a good example. Scholarly books do not use "the" when it is unnecessary, but they do use it when it is (looking at G.E.M. De Ste. Croix's "The origins of the Peloponnesian War", perhaps the definitive scholarly work on that subject, I would say that about one quarter to one half of the section headers begin with "the").
Headings, subheadings, and subsubheadings are extremely valuable in long articles. The reader who has a specific area of interest should be able to look at the TOC and go directly to the relevant section. In that context, I have no problem with a particular section that's fairly short.
Headings and subheadings can be added by clicking Advanced then Heading in the extra toolbar line which now appears. Selecting "Level 2" will format text as a main heading, the most frequently used subdivision of any page. "Level 3" gives you a subheading for a Level 2 heading, and so on.
These are sometimes called "levels" based on the number of equal signs before and after, so that the top "Section" above with two equal signs is a "level two" heading, the subsection is a "level three" heading, and the "sub-subsection" is "level four".
Headings and subheadings are a way to organize an article. If an article discusses several topics and dedicates more than a couple of paragraphs to each, you can make the article more readable by inserting a heading for each topic — that is, creating a section for each topic.
Try to limit headings by promotion, although some alternatives are acceptable. If the text for one promotion is getting long, it can be broken up with further subheadings. Use common sense. Do not refer to the subject of the article within the article's headers. Headers should never be wiki-linked.
A document may also be considered to be divided into sections by its headings and subheadings, which may be used for a table of contents. For example, the hierarchical sections used in Wikipedia can be compiled into a table of contents for an article. Many books, however, only have chapter headings in the table of contents. [citation needed]