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At the very top of an article is the lead section; the name of the article is always bolded. Bolding is done by placing three apostrophes on each side of the text. Except for the article name, it is rarely used in articles.

Section heading, level 2

A "level 2" heading is one with a pair of equal signs on each side. It's the highest level used in articles. If you enter a "level 1" heading, it "would" work, but you'd be wrong to do so.

Section heading, level 3

Level 2 and level 3 headings are very common in articles. Level 4 are less common; levels 5 and 6 aren't used. Levels 3 and 4 are sometimes called "subsection headings".

Another subsection

Next, let's italicize some text by putting two apostrophes on each side. Italicizing text is typically used for the name of a newspaper or magazine; it's almost never used in articles for emphasis because emphasis isn't the neutral point of view that Wikipedia strives for.

Another level 2 heading

Normally, only the first word in any section heading is capitalized.

Wikilink examples

• To insert a link to a specific article, just place two brackets on each side of the name of the article, thusly elephant
• It you add an ending to a word, the software automatically incorporates that into the link: elephants
• You can totally change what the reader sees by using a piped link: in this example, although the name of the article is "United States Congress", the reader will see something slightly different: U.S. Congress

Warning

With a piped link, only the text to the right of the pipe symbol ("|") is visible to the reader. It's not acceptable, in articles, to use piping to play tricks -- so don't do this, for example:

• Elephant - see the article Stephen Colbert's bête noir
• A good example

External Links

Here's how to create an external link in Wikipedia. [1]

Always put brackets around a URL. Here's the URL without the brackets, so you can see what it would look like (remember, this is wrong): http://www.slate.com/id/2654/

Simple Footnote

Body of the article

In 1997, Chrysler was more profitable, with earning of $2.8 billion, than Daimler, which earned $1.8 billion.