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ARTICLE TITLES

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• Titles are generally nouns or noun phrases (Effects of the wild, not About the effects of the wild).
• Titles should be short—preferably fewer than ten words.
• The initial letter of a title is capitalized (except in very rare cases, such as eBay). Otherwise, capital
letters are used only where they would be used in a normal sentence (Funding of UNESCO
projects, not Funding of UNESCO Projects).
• Do not use a, an, or the as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the
Second Empire), unless by convention it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague).
• Avoid special characters such as the slash (/), plus sign (+), braces ({ }), and square brackets ([ ]);
use and instead of an ampersand (&), unless the ampersand is an accepted part of a name
(Emerson, Lake & Palmer).
SECTION HEADINGS

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• Headings provide an overview in the table of contents and allow readers to navigate
through the text more easily.
• Should NOT explicitly refer to the subject of the article (ie. "Early life" is preferable to "His early
life" when his refers to the subject of the article).
• Capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest in
lower case (ie. Rules and regulations, not Rules and Regulations).
• Avoid special characters such as the slash (/), plus sign (+), braces ({ }), and square brackets ([ ]);
use and instead of an ampersand (&).
•Should be unique within the page / Should NOT contain links.

Headings follow a six-level hierarchy, starting at 1 and ending at 6.

Heading 1 (=Heading 1=) is automatically generated as the title of the article, and is never appropriate within
the body of articles. Sections start at the second level (==Heading 2==), with subsections at the third level
(===Heading 3===), and additional levels of subsections at the fourth level (====Heading 4====), fifth level,
and sixth level. Sections should be consecutive, such that they do not skip levels from sections to sub-
subsections; the exact methodology is deferred to Between sections, there should be a single blank line;
multiple blank lines in the edit window create too much white space in the article.

LAYOUT • orLead Section - An introductory text that will also serve as an overview

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abstract for the following paragraphs.

• To add more sections to your article or Wikipedia page,

you may include the following:
{{Details}} – this generates For more details on this topic, see
{{Further}} – this generates Further information:
{{Related}} – this generates Related terms:
{{also}} – this generates See also
 QUOTATIONS
• Single or Double Quotations: Enclose quotations with double quotes (Bob said, "Jim ate the apple.").
Enclose quotations w/in quotations w/ single quotes (Bob said, "Did Jim say 'I ate the apple' after he left?").
• Block Quotations: Format a long quote (more than four lines, or consisting of more than one

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paragraph, regardless of number of lines) as a block quotation, which Wikimedia's software will
indent from both margins. Do not enclose block quotations in quotation marks (and especially
avoid decorative quotation marks in normal use, such as those provided by the {{cquote}}
template, which are reserved for for pull quotes). Block quotations can be enclosed
between a pair of <blockquote>...</blockquote> HTML tags.

<blockquote>
<p>And bring us a lot of horilka, but not of that fancy kind with raisins,
or with any other such things—bring us horilka of the purest kind, give us that

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demon drink that makes us merry, playful and wild!</p>
<p>—[[Nikolai Gogol]], ''[[Taras Bulba]]''</p>
</blockquote>

TEXTS
• Write out both the full version and the abbreviation at first occurrence.
For example: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
• The first time the term concerned is mentioned, it is bold faced.

PUTTING IMAGES

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All images must
1) include a CAPTION
2) be aligned with the layout

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3) not be too big
4) be carefully distributed throughout the article
5) be CITED properly. Include source details and a copyright
tag on the image description page

If you download an image from the web, you should give the URL:
Example: Source: Downloaded from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4280841.stm

If you got the image from an offline source, you should specify:
Example: Source: Scanned from public record #5253 on file with Anytown, Somestate public surveyor

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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This Table of contents can be forced onto a floating table
on the right hand of the screen with the code below:
{| align="right"
| __TOC__
|}

For each page with more than three headings, a table of contents (TOC) is automatically generated from
the section headings.

This part helps the viewers in two ways:

1) It organizes the data to create a structure by which the article is to understood, and
2) It provides links for the viewers to immediately jump to a certain part of the article if they wish to.
 LINKS & CITATIONS
For links and citations in Wikipedia, we will be using
1) the APA Citation learned in class for the reference list found in
the bottom of every article
2) the Wikipedia style of in-line citation to cite WITHIN texts.
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For example, I quoted parts of an article from New York Times, I will cite it in-line like this:

“There was no other way to escape. We had to abandon the vessel and move forward.” <ref>Okuda, M., &
Okuda, D. (1993). Star trek chronology: The history of the future. New York, NY: Pocket Books.</ref>

By doing so, a superscript appears after the quotation, and the link appears in your Reference List.
Browse through your Reference List once in awhile though, to ensure that the citation is there and that it
is properly arranged.

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The use of the EDIT SUMMARY is two-fold:
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1) To summarise the change, even if only briefly so that other editors and collaborators
of the site could keep track of the changes.
2) To give reasons for the change, if there is a reasonable chance that other editors may
be unclear in their changes.

Adding Comments: CM followed by either the comment itself or the topic. [CM: social networking]
Adding External Links: EL followed by the specific link. [EL: http://www.xs.edu.ph]
Adding or Rephrasing Short Texts: FT followed by the full text that has been added (perhaps with a
little context), or the new version of what was changed. [FT: Blame The Jetsons, repeated viewings
of Star Wars (the good ones), and half of Will Smith’s movies. Blame whomever you so choose for
tricking us into believing that the distant future promised cool gadgets and robots.]
AddingText: + followed by the text added. [+Although they tend to sell processed food made by the
world’s largest companies, most corner stores are small, family-run businesses].
Capitalization of text or headings: CAPS
Cleaning up pages: CL

Copy editing: CE followed by the changes made. [CE from 'Tell Joe and I to ...' to 'Tell Joe and me
to …']
Creating a New Article: NEW followed by --comments [NEW --to supplement first page]

Moving text or parts: MV followed by new location or original location [MV to Social Networking] or
[MV from Search Engines]
Removing Text from Article: - followed by text. [-Twitter as a viral form of advertisement]

Reverting Changes: RV changes by second name, to first name. [RV to JPua to ALapez]

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ADDING OTHER MEDIA
This could refer to songs (FLV format / steaming), videos (embedded from YouTube
or other sources), and other similar files, remember to cite them properly.

Identify the source, the link, and the title of the media.