User:Antidiskriminator/Order of optional appendices and footers
Order of optional appendices and footers:This sequence has been in place since at least 2003 (when "See also" was called "Related topics"). See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Layout&oldid=2166480 See also Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Changes to standard appendices. The original rationale for this ordering is that, with the exception of Works, sections which contain material outside Wikipedia (including Further reading and External links) should come after sections that contain Wikipedia 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 validity 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
- See also
- Notes and/or References
- Further reading
- External linksThere 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 that. Some External links and references sections are very 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, and deleted a reference instead. Keeping the External links last is also helpful to editors who patrol external links.
- Navigation templates (footer navboxes)Rationale for placing navboxes at the end of the article.
- Defaultsort
- CategoriesWhile categories are entered on the editing page ahead of stub templates, they appear on the visual page after the stub templates.
- Stub templates (the first stub template should be preceded by two blank lines. See Wikipedia_talk:Stub/Archive_11#Lines_before_stub_template)
- Interlanguage links