Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 11 (section)

== Contents tab ==

I did a large bibliography section for [[Boris Vian]] a while back, and since I had to use different headers for poetry/dramatic works, Wikipedia automatically added a Contents tab right after the article text! I thought it looked very wrong, a CONTENTS tab AFTER the article, covering the bibliography section only.. is there a way to remove it? -- [[User:Jashiin|Jashiin]] 18:11, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

:Yes.  See [[Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Placement_of_the_Table_of_Contents_.28TOC.29]].  You can put the text string '''<nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki>''' anywhere in the body of an article to suppress display of its table of contents.

:Another option is to put a section heading close to the top of the article, so that the TOC shows up in a more sensible place.  For example, in [[Boris Vian]], you might start a new section called "Life and works" immediately after the first paragraph.  Whether that's a better option than <nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki> is a matter of personal opinion, I suppose. [[User:Triskaideka|<nowiki></nowiki>]]&mdash;[[User:Triskaideka|Triskaideka]] 18:28, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

::Thanks a lot!! I used the NOTOC option, since I'm planning on expanding the article and don't want to edit its header structure right now :) -- [[User:Jashiin|Jashiin]] 18:38, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

:::Personally, I think having a proper header structure is far better: only a short introduction should be outside all headers in anything but the smallest article. And then, of course, people can actually make use of the ToC to access the other parts of the article. I'm going to do that now - you can, of course, revert, tweak, edit or whatever if you disagree with how I've done it, or because you're expanding and rearranging it in general. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 18:50, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

::::Actually, yes, this looks better.. I think I'll leave it like that for a while, until I have a good cohesive text ready for the article. Thanks for your help! :)  -- [[User:Jashiin|Jashiin]] 21:35, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)