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{{about|the appearance of blank space on an article|the Manual of Style section on using line breaks in an article|MOS:LINEBREAKS}}

[[File:WhiteSpace.jpg|right|thumb|350px|TheThis Wikipedia article shown here is a stub. It has a minimal amount of body text along with an infobox on the right and a navbox at the bottom. The remainder of the page is blank, known as whitespace.]]

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'''Whitespace''' isrefers to any [[Blank space (punctuation)|blank space]] that appears on the published version of a Wikipedia page inacross anyall namespace.[[Wikipedia:Namespaces|namespaces]] Itthat is notfree occupiedof by any[[special characters]], [[Wikipedia:Templates|templates]], multimedia[[Wikipedia:Multimedia|media]], or anythingother [[HTML elseelements]]. In other words, it appears as empty, ''white.'' space.

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==Causes of whitespace==

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It is also possible to produce your own table of contents as follows:<br />

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