Editing Chabadpedia:Manual of Style/Layout (section)

==Order of article elements<span id="Order of sections"></span>==
{{shortcut|MOS:ORDER|MOS:SECTIONORDER|CP:ORDER}}
{{See also|Chabadpedia:Manual of Style#Section headings|Chabadpedia:Manual of Style/Lead section#Order|Chabadpedia:Stand-alone lists#Chronological ordering}}

A [[Chabadpedia:Stub#Creating and improving a stub article|simple article]] should have, at least, (a) a lead section and (b) references. The following list includes additional standardized sections in an article. A complete article need not have all, or even most, of these elements.
# Before the article content
## [[Chabadpedia:Short description|Short description]]<ref>Discussed in [[Chabadpedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout/Archive 12#Short descriptions|2018]] and [[Chabadpedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout/Archive 13#Where to put &lcub;&lcub;short description&rcub;&rcub;|2019]].</ref>
## {{tl|DISPLAYTITLE}}, {{tl|Lowercase title}}, {{tl|Italic title}}<ref>Per the template documentation at {{Section link|Template:Italic title/doc#Location on page}}</ref> (some of these may also be placed before the infobox<ref>Per the RFC at {{Section link|Chabadpedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout/Archive 14#DISPLAYTITLE}}</ref> or after the infobox<ref>Per the template documentation at {{Section link|Template:DISPLAYTITLE#Instructions}}</ref>)
## [[Chabadpedia:Hatnote|Hatnotes]]
## {{tl|Featured list}}, {{tl|Featured article}} and {{tl|Good article}} (where appropriate for article status)
## Deletion&nbsp;/ protection tags ([[Chabadpedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|CSD]], [[Chabadpedia:Proposed deletion|PROD]], [[Chabadpedia:Articles for deletion|AFD]], [[:Category:Protection templates|PP]] notices)
## [[Chabadpedia:Maintenance tags|Maintenance]], [[Chabadpedia:Cleanup tags|cleanup]], and [[Chabadpedia:Template messages/Disputes|dispute]] tags
## Templates relating to [[CP:ENGVAR|English variety]] and [[Chabadpedia:Overview of date formatting guidelines|date format]]<ref>The matter was discussed in [[Template talk:Use dmy dates/Archive 1#Changing placement|2012]], [[Chabadpedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout/Archive 11#Order of article elements: what about Italic title, Use DMY dates, etc ?|2014]], and [[Template talk:Use dmy dates/Archive 1#Placement|2015]].</ref>{{efn|These templates (see [[:Category:Use English templates]]) can also be placed at the end of an article.}}
## [[Chabadpedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes|Infoboxes]]{{efn|It is important that hatnotes and maintenance/dispute tags appear on the first page of the article. On the mobile site, the first paragraph of the lead section is moved above the infobox for the sake of readability. Since the infobox is generally more than one page long, putting hatnotes, etc., after it will result in them being placed after the first page, making them less effective.}}
## [[:Category:Language maintenance templates|Language maintenance templates]]
## [[Chabadpedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Images|Images]]
## [[#Navigation templates|Navigation header templates]] ([[CP:SIDEBAR|sidebar templates]])
# Article content
## [[Chabadpedia:Lead section|Lead section]] (also called the introduction)
## [[Help:Section#Table of contents (TOC)|Table of contents]]
## [[#Body sections|Body]] (see [[#Specialized layout|below]] for specialized layout)
# [[#Standard appendices and footers|Appendices]]<ref name="sequence">This sequence has been in place since at least [[Special:PermanentLink/2166480|December 2003]] (when "See also" was called "Related topics"). See, for example, [[Chabadpedia:Perennial proposals#Changes to standard appendices|Chabadpedia:Perennial proposals § Changes to standard appendices]].</ref>{{efn|The original rationale for the ordering of the appendices is that, with the exception of "Works", sections which contain material outside Chabadpedia (including "Further reading" and "External links") should come after sections that contain Chabadpedia material (including "See also") to help keep the distinction clear. The sections containing notes and references often contain both kinds of material and, consequently, appear after the "See also" section (if any) and before the "Further reading" section (if any). Whatever the merits of the original rationale, there is now the additional factor that readers have come to expect the appendices to appear in this order.}}
## [[#Works or publications|Works or publications]] (for biographies only)
## [[#"See also" section|See also]]
## [[#Notes and references|Notes and references]] (this can be two sections in some citation systems)
## [[#Further reading|Further reading]]
## [[#External links|External links]]{{efn|There are several reasons why this section should appear as the last appendix section. So many articles have the "External links" section at the end that many people expect this to be the case. Some "External links" and "References" (or "Footnotes", etc.) sections are quite long and, when the name of the section is not visible on the screen, it could cause problems if someone meant to delete an external link but deleted a reference citation instead. Keeping the "External links" last is also helpful to editors who patrol external links.}}
# {{anchor|End matter}}[[#Standard appendices and footers|End matter]]
## [[Chabadpedia:Succession boxes|Succession boxes]] and geography boxes
## Other [[#Navigation templates|navigation footer templates]] ([[CP:NAVBOX|navboxes]])<ref>[[Chabadpedia talk:Layout/Archive 5#What is the rationale of putting navboxes at the very bottom?|Rationale for placing navboxes at the end of the article.]]</ref>
## {{tl|Portal bar}}{{efn|This template is primarily used when [[Template:Portal]] would cause formatting problems.}} (or {{tl|Subject bar}})
## {{tl|Taxonbar}}
## [[Chabadpedia:Authority control|Authority control]] templates
## [[Chabadpedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Geographical coordinates|Geographical coordinates]] (if not in the infobox) or {{tl|coord missing}}
## [[Help:Category#Default sort key|Defaultsort]]
## [[Chabadpedia:Categorization|Categories]]{{efn|While categories are entered on the editing page ahead of stub templates, they appear on the visual page in a separate box after the stub templates. One of the reasons this happens is that every stub template generates a stub category, and those stub categories appear after the "main" categories. Another is that certain bots and scripts are set up to expect the categories, stubs and [[Help:Interlanguage links|interlanguage links]] to appear in that order, and will reposition them if they don't. Therefore, any manual attempt to change the order is futile unless the bots and scripts are also altered.}}
## {{t|Improve categories}} or {{tl|Uncategorized}} (These can alternatively be placed with other maintenance templates before the article content)
## [[Chabadpedia:Stub|Stub templates]] (follow [[CP:STUBSPACING]])