User:Dot.py/Article example

This is an example article made by Dot.py for their own purposes, different from the official example article page.

Article example

Here's an example for an infobox. It is used to give more detailed information, like a planet's mass or a person's birthday.

This is the lead section of an article.^{[Note 1]} It is used as a hook and summary of an article, or for when something is short and doesn't need it's own section.

Here is the second paragraph of the article.^{[Note 1]} The last word of this sentence is formatted as a wikilink.

This is a new section of the article. It's usually used when a specific topic of an article is notable enough to have it's own section.

Here is an example of a sentence that needs a citation, so it's given one.^[1] This sentence also needs a citation, but it doesn't have one, so the {{Citation needed}} template is used here.^{[citation needed]}

This is the first sub-heading, listed under #Heading. Depending on the skin you're viewing this article on, it may appear either on the left sidebar or in a little box at the top.

Many people say^{[weasel words]} that this information is currently outdated.^{[as of?]}

There are many templates on Wikipedia, and they can show you pretty cool things. ^{[unbalanced opinion?]} For example, the {{NUMBEROF}} template can show statistics of Wikipedia.^{[Note 2]} There are 7,221,768 articles on the English Wikipedia, and you can purge this page's server cache to update this information (don't worry, you can't break anything by purging.)

There are 4 levels of sub-headings, with this being the last.

Sections can have multiple of the same types of sub-headings. Just like having multiple subheadings, you can also re-use citations multiple times^[1], but you don't need to re-use citations.^[2]

Here's where the notes are put, which are shown in the article as ^{[Note #]}.

Here is where the citations and references are shown.