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  2. 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).

  3. Heading names: Editors may use any reasonable section and subsection names that they choose. [ k ] The most frequent choice is "References". Other options, in diminishing order of popularity, are "Notes", "Footnotes" or "Works cited", although these are more often used to distinguish between multiple end-matter sections or subsections.

  4. Wikipedia:How to edit a page (concise) - Wikipedia

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    To edit a MediaWiki page, click on the "Edit this page" (or just "edit") link at one of its edges. This will bring you to the edit page : a page with a text box containing the wikitext : the editable source code from which the server produces the webpage.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages – disambiguation pages are lists of homographs—a word or a group of words that share the same written form but have different meanings—with their own page rules and layouts; Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists – guideline page on content and style guidelines and naming conventions

  6. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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    The Complete Plain Words, by Sir Ernest Gowers. Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and Publishers Judith Butcher. (2006 ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ISBN 9780521847131; Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage (2015 ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, (hardcover).

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    There are five heading levels used in writing articles (the top-level one being reserved for the auto-displayed page name). [b] Terms in description lists (example: Glossary of the American trucking industry) Table headers and captions (but not image captions) A link to the page on which that link appears, called a self link

  8. Wikipedia : Article Layout Template

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    This is a dummy article to help you get started with creating pages in the wiki; please copy the code to a different page and edit it there. The first paragraph is usually a short dictionary-style definition of the subject matter.

  9. Wikipedia:Basic copyediting - Wikipedia

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    Edit the page by clicking the "Edit" or "Edit source" tab near the top of it or one of the section [edit source] links. Step three Make your changes and fill out an edit summary. Be helpful to the editors who follow you by giving a summary of what you have done. Simple "Copy edit" is fine, but "Edited for tone" is even better.