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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.
The lead in this essay uses clickable L2B links, a type of internal referencing making the use of the usual external references unnecessary in this lead. They point to the section where regular references would normally be found and show exactly which wordings in the lead are derived from which sections in the body.
An article's content should begin with an introductory lead section – a concise summary of the article – which is never divided into sections (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section). The remainder of the article is typically divided into sections. Infoboxes, images, and related content in the lead section must be right-aligned.
A simple article should have, at least, (a) a lead section and (b) references. The following list includes additional standardized sections in an article. A complete article need not have all, or even most, of these elements. Before the article content Short description [1]
By default, there is no link to edit the lead section of a page, so the entire page must be edited. Lead section editing can be enabled through Preferences → Gadgets → Appearance → Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page. You can also click "[edit]" at another section and manually change section=n in the url to section=0.
The lead section is always the first section in the article (which is why you may hear it called the top section). To help editors write strong leads, Wikipedia provides a guideline at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section (shortcut: MOS:LEAD). Unlike a tabloid magazine article lead, a Wikipedia article lead doesn't tease or tantalize the ...
As explained in more detail at Wikipedia:Lead section § Introductory text, all but the shortest articles should start with introductory text (the "lead").The lead should establish significance, include mention of consequential or significant criticism or controversies, and be written in a way that makes readers want to know more.
Any edit you make to the following text should be consistent with WP:Manual of Style/Lead section, the main guideline covering this topic.Also, take care that the edit is appropriate for all of the other articles into which the text is transcluded (a list of such articles is provided below).