This is where you would summarize your article as per the Wikipedia lead guidelines. Please note that your lead should give enough information so that a reader can understand the basics of your subject. For example, this is one of my favorite leads:
"Moleskine is a brand of notebooks, planners, diaries, sketchbooks and albums manufactured by Moleskine Srl, an Italian company based in Milan. Moleskine notebooks are typically bound in coated paper cardboard, with an elastic band to hold the notebook closed, a sewn spine that allows it to lie flat when opened, cream colour paper, rounded corners, a ribbon bookmark, an expandable pocket inside the rear cover, packed in a paper banderole[note 1]. Moleskine does not have an official pronunciation as it is a "brand name with undefined national identity"[1]. The Italian pronunciation is [mɔleˈskiːne]."
As you can see, the lead is an interesting summarization of what a Moleskine is, who it's made by, and what it is. It does not go into the history of the Moleskine, the varied selection, or any other facts. It simply gives us a introduction into the article itself. It is sometimes easiest to write this part last.
Purpose edit
Next, you should examine the purpose of your test. Tell us what it tests for, and why that is important. When would you use this test? What symptoms or patient history, if any, is it intended to explain?
Procedure edit
As part of the medical documentation of your test, you should (briefly) describe the actual procedure of the test in no more than a couple of sentences. Wikipedia is not a how-to-manual, and is not a substitute for proper medical advice. Also in your procedure section, describe what the examiner is looking for.
Mechanism edit
What anatomically the test is doing.
Example:
The Hawkins-Kennedy test works by rotating the greater tuberosity, approximating it to the acromion, impinging the rotator cuff or the long head of the biceps brachii tendon between them.
(except please try to write in language that typical readers can understand, and provide wikilinks to unfamiliar words.)
Results edit
In this section, describe what the examiner might find and what that means for a patient. If a, then b. If c, then d, and so on.
Consider mentioning the typical response to a significant finding (e.g., a positive finding results in a recommendation for physical therapy, or wins an evaluation for orthopedic surgery, or whatever). This helps readers get from this article to the next one that is likely to interest them.
Adverse effects (or "Legal issues") edit
An optional section: If there are significant risks (e.g., doing the test could result in nerve damage), explain those here.
History edit
The first section in a majority of articles is the history regarding your specific topic. This would be a great place to discuss the discovery and development of your test, and any particular events that contributed to the creation of the modern day version of your test.
See Also edit
(Optional) If your test's article would be better understood or enhanced by reading another article, please place a link here in the following format.
- Wikipedia Manual of Style - The Wikipedia Manual of Style is the guidebook for the formatting and styling of Wikipedia articles.
Notes edit
If you want to provide an explanatory footnote or two (not to be confused with the list of citations to reliable sources), you can do so here.
- ^ I'm really not sure what a banderole is, to be honest, but I needed something to footnote!
References edit
There are a lot of different styles of citations, which you can learn about here. Whether you use inline citations, general references, footnotes (which use <ref> tags [the style used on this page], or parenthetical citations which don't use <ref> tags), a combination of inline and general references, or whatever, you need to have a list of citations to reliable sources that support your material. References are essential to meeting the guidelines of verifiability as determined by the Wikipedia community.
External links edit
External links are not things you used to get content for the article—those should all be listed in the section above—but are things you think the average reader might benefit from seeing.