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Welcome to Wikipedia! This page is a sandbox, an area where you can experiment and test edits. It contains simple examples of various elements you'll find around Wikipedia. It may be deleted after a period of inactivity; please do not use it to draft an article or create anything else you wish to last.

This is a section heading

Here is a citation to a website.^[1]

Here is a citation to a news article.^[2]

Here is a template for facts that lack a citation.^{[citation needed]}

Here is a link to the page for Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. The text displayed for the link can be customized like this. When links go to pages that do not exist, they appear red, like this.

This is a subsection heading

Bulleted list item 1
Bulleted list item 2

You can make text bold or italic when needed.

Numbered list item 1
Numbered list item 2

Reference section

^ Smith, Jane. "Sample title". Sample website. Sample publisher. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
^ Jones, Bob (7 April 2025). "Sample headline". The Sample Times. Retrieved 2 May 2025.

External links section

Example external link

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[1] Smith, Jane. "Sample title". Sample website. Sample publisher. Retrieved 2 May 2025.

[2] Jones, Bob (7 April 2025). "Sample headline". The Sample Times. Retrieved 2 May 2025.

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