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An '''article title''' is the large main heading displayed above the content of any article. It also serves as a label for the article within Wikipedia's software, and appears in the [[URL]] of the article's page.<ref>The title displayed as the article's heading can be formatted slightly differently than the stored title; see below and see [[Wikipedia:Page name]].</ref> The title can also be used by editors to create [[WP:LINK|links]] to the article from other articles, and by readers to arrive at the article by typing its title in the [[Help:Searching|Search]] box (although [[WP:Redirect|redirects]] – alternative titles for the same article – work just as well for these purposes).

The title of an article should give a concise indication of what the article is about, and distinguish it from other articles.<ref>It is technically possible, but undesirable for various reasons, to make different pages display with the same title.</ref> Article titles generally take one of three forms: thea name of the subject of the article (such as [[New Zealand]]); thea name of the subject together with a [[WP:DAB|disambiguator]] to distinguish it from others with the same name ([[Mercury (planet)]]); or a descriptive indication of the topic ([[History of video games]]).

This page explains the considerations on which choices of article title are based. Some guidelines concerning the titles of articles in specific fields can be found in the box to the right.