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Heading names: Many different headings are used, depending on the subject matter. "Works" is preferred when the list includes items that are not written publications (e.g. music, films, paintings, choreography, or architectural designs), or if multiple types of works are included.
A bulleted list of internal links and, optionally, a short explanation for any link whose purpose isn't obvious. Figure 13-3 is an example. (If the link is already in the article, don't add it to the "See also" section.) References, Notes, Footnotes, or Notes and footnotes. Whatever you find, don't change any of these four section headings when ...
Wikipedia article titles and section headings use sentence case, not title case; see Wikipedia:Article titles and § Section headings. For capitalization of list items, see § Bulleted and numbered lists. Other points concerning capitalization are summarized below. Full information can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters.
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 (see § Other uses, below).
It appears to be needless. I've also noticed that many published, scholarly books avoid the use of articles in chapter/section headings. For example, I'm using a book by Myron A. Marty for an article I'm working on at the moment. Marty's book is an historical analysis of the sixties in the U.S.
Topic outlines list the subtopics of a subject, arranged in levels, and while they can be used to plan a composition, they are most often used as a summary, such as in the form of a table of contents or the topic list in a college course's syllabus. Outlines are further differentiated by the index prefixing used, or lack thereof.
Many of the considerations at WP:Manual of Style § Section headings also apply to description list terms; even though description list terms are not headings, they act like headings in some ways. In at least one regard however, they are not: description list term wikitext ( ; ) should not be used to subdivide large sections .
You may be looking for: Wikipedia:Article titles § Deciding on an article title (WP:CONSISTENT), describing the consistency criterion in article titling policy . Wikipedia:Consistency in article titles (WP:TITLECON), explanatory supplement to the above policy page, on naming articles along consistent patterns, especially within a category