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Best to find a well made article and copy it's formatting and everything. It's fine to do, really.
Wikilinks, save real links mostly for external links section (might see templates/info boxes, ignore)
- Explain Wikilinks, their general incidence
- Real links tend to be for external links sections (with rare exception), don't lace them into the article
Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. While external links help to embed Wikipedia into the external World Wide Web, internal links (or 'wiki links') bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Links provide instant pathways to locations outside and within the project that are likely to increase our readers' understanding of the topic at hand.
For how many internal links to include, you want to ask yourself, "How likely is it that a reader of this subject may be interested in that other article, or does it cover a concept not fully explained in the article?"
Lennie and George came to a ranch near [[Soledad, California|Soledad]] southeast of [[Salinas, California]] to "work up a stake".
When saved, this produces:
Lennie and George came to a ranch near Soledad southeast of Salinas, California, to "work up a stake".
If there is an external website that is highly relevant to the article or provides more detail than the article contains, it should be listed in the 'External links' section with a short description. These links should not be used in the article's body text, nor should they used be if they are already in the references or notes.
Encyclopedic tone
- NPOV
- Be simple/clear with prose
- English + everyone else's is fine, just make it consistant