UniWiki:Manual of Style/Layout: Difference between revisions

# [[#Standard appendices and footers|Bottom matter]]

## [[#Navigation templates|Navigation templates]] (footer navboxes)  

## [[Wikipedia:Categorization|Categories]]<ref>While categories are entered on the editing page ahead of stub templates, they appear on the visual page in a separate box after the stub templates. One of the reasons this happens is that every stub template generates a stub category, and those stub categories appear after the "main" categories.</ref>

=Body sections=

Articles longer than a stub are generally divided into sections, and sections over a certain length are generally divided into paragraphs; these divisions enhance the readability of the article. Articles should  follow good organizational and writing principles regarding sections and paragraphs.

=== Headings and sections ===

Headings introduce sections and subsections, clarify articles by breaking up text, organize content, and populate the [[Wikipedia:WP:TOC|table of contents]]. Very short or very long sections and subsections in an article look cluttered and inhibit the flow of the prose. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheading.

===Paragraphs===

Sections usually consist of paragraphs of running [[Wikipedia:Prose|prose]]. Between paragraphs&mdash;as between sections&mdash;there should be a ''single'' blank line and the first line of each paragraph is ''not'' indented. [[Wikipedia:Bullet point#Bullet points|Bullet points]] should be minimized in the body and lead of the article, if they are used at all; however, a bulleted list may be useful to break up what would otherwise be a large, grey mass of text, particularly if the topic requires significant effort on the part of readers. However, bulleted lists are typical in the reference and further-reading sections towards the end of the article. Bullet points are usually ''not'' separated by blank lines, as that causes an accessibility issue (''See: [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Lists|Lists]]''.)

===Notes and references===

{{hatnote|For how to generate and format these sections, see [[Wikipedia:Help:Footnotes|Wikipedia:Footnotes]] and [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Citing sources|Wikipedia:Citing sources]], particularly [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Citing sources#How to create the list of citations|"How to create the list of citations"]].}}

'''Contents:''' This section, or series of sections, may contain any or all of the following:

# [[Wikipedia:WP:EXPLNOTE|Explanatory footnotes]] that give information which is too detailed or awkward to be in the body of the article,

# [[Wikipedia:WP:CITE#General references|General references]] (full bibliographic citations to sources that were consulted in writing the article but that are not explicitly connected to any specific material in the article)

If there are both citation footnotes and explanatory footnotes, then they may be combined in a single section, or separated. General references and other full citations may similarly be either combined or separated (e.g. "References" and "General references"). There may therefore be one, two, three or four sections in all.

===External links===

===Navigation templates===

===Images===

When placing images, be careful not to stack too many of them within the lead, or within a single section;

Avoid referring to images as being on the left or right. Image placement is different for viewers of the mobile version of Wikipedia, and is meaningless to people having pages read to them by assistive software. Instead, use captions to identify images.

==See also==

===Specialized layout===

==Footnotes==

{{Reflist}}