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Body sections appear after the lead and table of contents (click on image for larger view). Headings introduce sections and subsections, clarify articles by breaking up text, organize content, and populate the table of contents. Very short sections and subsections clutter an article with headings and inhibit the flow of the prose.
Empty sections look unprofessional, just like "Under construction" signage on Web pages. If you don't have anything to put in a section, don't create that section. If you see an empty section, delete the heading. If you find an article that doesn't cite its sources, don't add a section for footnotes just in case.
A collapsible element contains a toggle a reader can use to show or hide the element's content. Elements are made collapsible by adding the mw-collapsible class, or alternatively by using the {{}} template, or its variants {{Collapse top}} and {{Collapse bottom}}.
The editing facilities can also be applied to a section of an included template. This section, Help:Editing sections of included templates, is an example. For the purpose of section editing the extent of a section is governed by the headers in the calling page itself.
Most articles actually need very little text formatting.. All formatting is achieved by placing symbols on either side of blocks of text. You can either type the markup manually, or add it through the toolbar at the top of the editing area.
Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons). Normally use nouns or noun phrases: Early life, not In early life. [f]
1. Mouse over the folder you want to add a subfolder to. 2. Click the Folder Options icon . 3. Select Create subfolder. 4. Enter a new subfolder name. 5. Click the Save icon.
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.