User:Davidmansel/sandbox

At the very top of this article is the lead section; the name of the article is always bolded. Bolding is done by putting three apostrophes on each side of the text. Except for the article name, it is rarely used in articles.

Section heading, level 2
A level 2 heading is one with a pair of equal signs on each side. It's the highest level used in articles. If you enter a level 1 heading, it will work, but you'd be wrong to do so.

Section heading, level 3
Level 2 and level 3 headings are very common in articles. Level 4 is less common; levels 5 and 6 aren't used. Level 3 and 4 headings are sometimes called "subsection headings".

Another subsection
Next, let's italicize some text by putting two apostrophes on each side. Italicizing text is typically used for the name of a newspaper or magazine; it's almost never used in articles for emphasis, because emphasis isn't the neutral point of view that Wikipedia strives for.

Another level 2 section heading
Normally, only the first word in any section heading is capitalized.

Wikilink examples
To insert a link to a specific article, just put two brackets on each side of the name of the article, thusly: elephant
 * If you add an ending to a word, the software automatically incorporates that into the link: elephants
 * You can totally change what the reader sees by using a piped link: in this example, although the name of the article is "United States Congress", the reader will see something slightly different:  U.S. Congress

Warning
With a piped link, only the text to the right of the pipe symbol (the "|") is visible to the reader. It's not acceptable, in articles, to use piping to play tricks - so don't do this, for example:


 * elephant - see the article Stephen Colbert's bete noire