User:Kirby King/Anatomy of an article


 * This article is not actually a real article; it was created to highlight certain aspects of style that should be observed on SmashWiki. At some point it may be moved out of Userspace into the Help namespace.

Anatomy of an article is a pseudo-article created to serve as a style guide to new Smashers editing SmashWiki. It begins with a special section known as a lead-in, which contains a general synopsis of the most important features of the subject of the article, and is typically a few sentences to a paragraph or two long. The article title, like all non-proper nouns, is written in lowercase with the exception of the very first letter. The lead-in is particularly important because it comes before an article's Table of Contents.

Main heading
The first main heading should encompass something particularly important about the article in question. What this may be depends on the subject of the article. Often, articles about subjects such as characters, stages, trophies, and similar topics have an established order of headings that should, as a rule, be observed by those articles falling under those headings. The first main heading should probably contain any background information about the subject of the article.

Another main heading
Other main headings can follow, but different main headings should deal with topics unrelated to any other headings of equal level.

Lower heading
Lower headings should deal with topics related to the parent heading (Another main heading) but deal with some specific aspect of that heading.

Sibling lower heading
As another heading of the same level, this text should discuss something that falls under the scope of "Another main heading" but isn't related to "Lower heading" or "Main heading".