Help:Editing

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• Wikipedia Help Page
• Editor's Guide

Contents 1 Editing Info 1.1 Links 1.2 Categories 1.3 Sections 1.4 Bullets 1.5 Paragraph breaks 1.6 Images 1.7 Unformated stuff 1.8 Redirect a page

[edit] Editing Info

Editing Wiki is simple. For most pages arround here all you will have is links, piped links, and offsite links. We'll come back and add the catagories if you don't want to play in that area.

[edit] Links

• Links: [[WikiArticle]]
  • Example: [[Main Page]] = Main Page
• Piped Links: [[WikiArticle|What you want it to read]]
  • Example: [[Main Page|This goes to the main page]] = This goes to the main page
• Offsite Links: [FullURL What you want it to read]
  • Example: [http://www.firstones.com Firstones] = Firstones
• Reference Links: [FullURL]
  • Example: [http://www.firstones.com] = [1]

[edit] Categories

• [[Category:Stuff]]
  • Can't example! Normal bottom of the page category marker that adds the page to the category.
• [[:Category:Root]]
  • Example: Category:Root
  • Inline link to category that does not add page to category.

[edit] Sections

• ==Stuff== - Main section headings
• ===Stuff=== - Sub headings
• ====Stuff==== - Minor headings

[edit] Bullets

• UL elements are done by starting the line with a * (indentation is done by more then one *)
• OL elements are done by starting the line with a # (indentation is done by more then one #)

[edit] Paragraph breaks

Hit enter twice. Hit it 3 times for a bigger break.

[edit] Images

[[image:file.jpg|thumb|description]] is the basic use. Read more at the Wikipedia help (linked at top).

[edit] Unformated stuff

Put a space at the start of the line. Enters within the line will be line breaks. It will look like this:

You could put code in here you don't want to be effected by 
a variable width font.

[edit] Redirect a page

Add this tag to the start of the page (it will erase all other content when you submit).

#REDIRECT [[Target_Page]]

If you aren't sure about whether an existing link is plural or not go to the page and check "What Links Here" (left sidebar). Do this on both. Choose the one that has more links and go FIX the links from the one with less links. Thanks!