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For example, if the term "terrorist" is disputed in a given setting, don't use "Terrorist attacks" as a heading. Content within a section can be used to explain, fairly, the controversy over a word or phrase, but a heading lacks necessary nuance. Don't have two sections or subsections with the same heading.
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.
In headings, capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns or other words for which there is specific reason to capitalize, but leave the rest lower case. The style manuals say "only" too often. Michael Hardy 19:57, 14 September 2006 (UTC) Can you give some examples for other reasons? Abbreviations come to mind. Anything else?
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.
Formatting a Wikipedia article is different from writing in a standard word processor or in Wikipedia's opt-in, alternative editing environment, VisualEditor.Instead of a strict WYSIWYG approach ("What You See Is What You Get"), Wikipedia uses text codes called wiki tags to create particular elements of the page (e.g. headings).
Use italics when writing about words as words, or letters as letters (to indicate the use–mention distinction). Examples: The term panning is derived from panorama, which was coined in 1787. Deuce means 'two'. (Linguistic glosses go in single quotation marks.) The most common letter in English is e.
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The rationales at WP:Manual of Style § Section headings apply equally well to description list terms, as they serve the purposes of both subheadings and list content. In template-structured markup, terms are themselves link targets; not all browsers properly handle content marked up both as a link target and an outgoing link anchor.