This Wikipedia:Guide to Layout is intended to be an annotated, working example of some of the basics of laying out an article. For instance, the title of the article should be given in bold.
Paragraphs should be relatively short as the eye gets tired of following solid text for too many lines.
This little article is not about markup. See Wikipedia:How does one edit a page for that.
This little article is not about style. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style for that.
This little article is just some summaries of what some fairly clean, simple Wikipedia articles look like.
For more complicated articles, you may want to copy the markup of some existing article you like the looks of.
Subheads
Subheads also help make an article clearer, although they are not necessary. Since subheads are hierarchical, and some people use the numbered preference for subheads, you should start with ==Subhead== and follow it with ===Subsubhead=== and so forth. Yes the ==Subhead== is awfully big, but that can be changed in the future more easily than a nonhierarchical article can be fixed.
Lists:
- are good for organizing
- neat
- efficient
- self-formatting
Lists start with a blank line, so put your first list item directly under the introductory phrase.
Numbered lists:
- Number automatically
- Making it easy to move items around in a list
- Or add items between other items
References
Put here, in list form, any books you have used or recommend for readers of the article. Need an ISDN example here.
External Links
Put here, in list form, any web sites that you have used or recommend for readers of the article.
- Wikipedia articles look better if the external links follow the Manual of Style.