Help:Summary style

SEG Wiki articles cover topics at several levels of detail: the lead (or introduction) contains a quick summary of the topic's most important points, and each major subtopic is detailed in its own section of the article. The length of a given article tends to grow as people add information to it. This does not go on forever: very long articles would cause problems and should be split. A fuller treatment of any major subtopic should go in a separate article of its own.

• The lead (or introduction) does not have a section heading (i.e. don't add ==Introduction== or similar)
• The lead should stand alone as a concise overview
• It is an abstract of the article so...
  • ...it should only contain things that are in the article
  • ...it should contain actual information, not just the promise of information
• The table of contents will automatically appear after the lead if the article has more than three headings

External links

• Wikipedia help pages
  • Lead section
  • Summary style

See also

• Article template
• Cheatsheet
• Choosing a topic
• Creating articles
• Editing
• Featured article criteria
• Good article criteria
• Helpful links
• Images
• Interwiki links
• Introduction
• Link
• Linking articles
• Math
• Naming new articles
• Pages needing attention
• Redirect
• References
• Searching the SEG Wiki
• Section heading
• Sentence case
• Student Chapter
• Summary style
• Using Wikipedia
• Volunteer forum