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== Editing articles ==
=== Content style and policies ===
An Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Information style and tone|encyclopedic style with a Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Tone|formal tone is important: straightforward, Wikipedia:Summary style|just-the-facts, instead of essay-like, argumentative, or opinionated. The goal of a Wikipedia article is to create a comprehensive and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutrally written summary of existing mainstream knowledge about a topic. Wikipedia does not publish Wikipedia:No original research|original research. An encyclopedia is, by its nature, a tertiary source that provides a survey of information already published in the wider world. Ideally, all information should be Wikipedia:Citing sources|cited and Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiable by Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable sources. Sourcing requirements are significantly stricter in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|articles on living persons.
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=== Edit screen(s) ===
Editing most Wikipedia pages is simple. Wikipedia uses two interface methods: classic editing with the Help:Introduction to editing with Wiki Markup/1|Source Editor through Help:Wikitext|wikitext (wiki markup), and a new Wikipedia:VisualEditor|VisualEditor (VE). 

Wikitext editing using the Source Editor is chosen by clicking the <kbd>Edit source</kbd> tab at the top of a Wikipedia page (or on a Help:Section|section-edit link). This opens an editable copy of the page, showing all the wikitext used there, and the Source Editor toolbar offers simple menu options to add or change the formatting. Wikitext is used extensively throughout Wikipedia for such things as Help:Link|hyperlinks, Help:Table|tables and Help:Columns|columns, Help:Footnotes|footnotes, Wikipedia:Inline citation|inline citation, Help:Special characters|special characters and so on. The Source Editor lets users toggle on 'wikitext highlighting' which uses different colours to help differentiate article text from wikitext.

The VisualEditor option is intended as a user-friendly, "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) editing aid, allowing one to edit pages without the need to learn wikitext markup. It is only available to registered logged-in users through an opt-in choice available through Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|personal preferences, see the Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide|VisualEditor user guide for more information.