Help:Editing
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Text formatting
- Italics: type '' (two apostrophes) on each side of your text
- ''Hello world!'' displays Hello world!
- Bold: type ''' (three apostrophes) on each side of your text
- '''Hello world!''' displays Hello world!
- Bold italics: type ''''' (five apostrophes) on each side of your text
- '''''Hello world!''''' displays Hello world!
Links
- Article link: type [[, the target article name, then ]]
- [[Main Page]] displays Main Page
- Article link with different text: type [[, the target article name, |, the new text, then ]]
- [[Main Page|Wiki Home]] displays Wiki Home
- External link: type http://url
- http://www.rarewitchproject.com/ displays http://www.rarewitchproject.com/
- External link with different text: type [http://url text]
- [http://www.rarewitchproject.com/ The Rare Witch Project] displays The Rare Witch Project
Headings
- Level 2 heading: type ==Section name==
- ==Brown foxes==
- Level 3 heading: type ===Section name===
- ===Lazy dogs===
- Level 4 heading: type ====Section name====
- ====Animals jumped====
...and so on in that fashion.
Citing sources
If you need to cite a source on a page, the way to do it is simple.
- <ref>''Banjo-Kazooie'' manual (Nintendo 64), pg. 12.</ref>
You can also give a reference a name. This allows you to use the same reference more than once in an article without it appearing as a new one each time.
- <ref name="18sep09 Scribes">[http://www.rare.co.uk/extras/scribes/18sep09/index.html Welcome to Rare: Scribes - September 18, 2009]</ref>
In this example, to use the 18sep09 Scribes reference again, one would type:
- <ref name="18sep09 Scribes" />
When using references in a page, be sure to add a "references" section near the bottom, as seen below. Note that reference sections go directly after all article content, but (for ease of editing) should be placed before the page's categories.
- ==References==
- <references />
For further information on references, see the RWP Wiki policy about it.
Comment signing on talk pages
On talk pages, always sign your comments, preferably with four tildes (~~~~).
- Username: three tildes (~~~)
- Username, time, date: four tildes (~~~~)
- Time, date: five tildes (~~~~~)
