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* The '''introduction''' does not have a [[Help:section heading|section heading]] (i.e. don't add <nowiki>==Introduction==</nowiki> or similar)
* In encyclopedic articles, the article title often appears in bold in the first sentence
* The intro 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 comes right after the intro, if the article has more than 3 headings
==External links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lead_section Lead section] — Wikipedia help
* In encyclopedic articles, the article title often appears in bold in the first sentence
* The intro 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 comes right after the intro, if the article has more than 3 headings
==External links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lead_section Lead section] — Wikipedia help