Wikipedia:Writing better articles

This is an explanatory essay about the Wikipedia:Manual of Style guideline. This page is intended to provide additional information about concepts in the page(s) it supplements. This page is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

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This page advises on article layout and style, and on making an article clear, precise and relevant to the reader.

• You can post questions about English grammar and usage at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language.
• If you want to peruse some of Wikipedia's finest articles, have a look at Wikipedia:Featured articles.
• For information on how to cite sources, see Wikipedia:Citing sources.
• For our guidelines on style, see the Wikipedia:Manual of Style and its subsidiary pages, listed in its template.
• To learn about markup in Wikipedia articles, see Help:Editing.
• To learn about lists, disambiguation pages, and images, see Help:List, Wikipedia:Disambiguation, and Help:Pictures.