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Here are some general notes about editing articles.

=Useful templates=

* To delete any page in your own user space, add <code><nowiki>{{db-u1}}</nowiki></code> to the top

Here's a collapsible guide to commonly used templates; the <code><nowiki>{{Quicktemplates}}</nowiki></code> template:

{{Quicktemplates}}

=Wiki markup syntax=

==Styling==

* <code><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>'''''bold-italic'''''</nowiki></code>

==Escaping==

* Surround any text with <code><nowiki><nowiki>...</nowiki></nowiki></code>

==Links==

See [[Help:Link]].

* [[The Banana Splits]]
* [[The Banana Splits|My favorite show]] &mdash; piped link; link that has text different from the page you are linking to.
* [[The Banana Splits#Season_1|Season 1]] &mdash; link to a section within an article
* [[/subpage]] &mdash; link to a subpage of this page; should start with a "/".

=== Pipe trick ===
The pipe trick (see [[Help:Pipe_trick]]):  If you enter a link that ends with a pipe character and nothing after it, then a label is automatically generated that leaves off the namespace and anything in parentheses.  Examples:

* <code><nowiki>[[Help:Template|]]</nowiki></code> is converted to <nowiki>[[Help:Template|Template]]</nowiki>, which is rendered as [[Help:Template|Template]].
* <code><nowiki>[[Music: My life|]]</nowiki></code> is converted to <nowiki>[[Music: My life| My life]]</nowiki>, which is rendered as [[Music: My life| My life]] - although "Music:" is not a namespace (therefore the space after the colon is not automatically removed), the shortcut works anyway.
* <code><nowiki>[[pipe (computing)|]]</nowiki></code> is converted to <nowiki>[[pipe (computing)|pipe]]</nowiki> which is rendered as [[pipe (computing)|pipe]].

=== Linking to old versions / diffs ===

Use templates to do that:

* <code><nowiki>{{oldid|The Banana Splits|The_Banana_Splits|old version}}</nowiki></code> → {{oldid|The Banana Splits|The_Banana_Splits|old version}}
* <code><nowiki>{{diff|The_Banana_Splits|558783629|552638959|diff two versions}}</nowiki></code> → {{diff|The_Banana_Splits|558783629|552638959|diff two versions}}, parameter order is new id, old id
* <code><nowiki>{{diff|The_Banana_Splits|0|552638959|diff old to latest}}</nowiki></code> → {{diff|The_Banana_Splits|0|552638959|diff two versions}}, use 0 to diff against the latest version


=== Interwiki links ===

See:

* [[meta:Help:Interwiki_linking]]
* [[Help:Link#Interwiki_links]]
* [[meta:Interwiki_map]] - Lists hundreds of prefixes for other wikis all over the interwebs.

=== Tips ===

* Avoid excessive links.  The lead of an article typically has more than the rest.  Only make the first occurrence of a word or phrase a link.

==Citing Sources==

* Being bold is important on Wikipedia.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Be bold|Be bold guideline]], ''Wikipedia'', retrieved August 10, 2012</ref>

===Notes===
{{reflist}}

===Multiple reference lists===

Note that in order to do multiple reference lists on the same page, you have to make sure that each reference list is "closed", as described
[[Wikipedia:REFNOTE#Multiple_reference_lists|here]].  To do that, it should be sufficient to just code your reflist as <nowiki>{{Reflist|close}}</nowiki>.

===When and how to cite===

This is from Keilana:

:All you need to do is cite at the end of the paragraph.  Generally the rule of thumb is that you cite quotes and always have a cite at the end of a paragraph.  If you only have one source in a paragraph with no quotes, then the single citation is fine.  If you have multiple sources for a paragraph, try to cite them by sentence based on where they came from, but you don't need to have the same citation for two sentences in a row.

==Images / figures==

Modified from a [[User_talk:Jgould1400#Images|comment by Keilana]]:

[[File:Andromeda annotated.png|thumb|400px|Andromeda as it appears in the night sky, with the superimposed figure.]]
Here is a blank template that you can just fill in every time you want to put an image somewhere: <nowiki>[[File:FILENAME|thumb|RIGHT/LEFT|SIZEpx|CAPTION]]</nowiki>. For example, the code <nowiki>[[File:Andromeda annotated.png|thumb|right|400px|Andromeda as it appears in the night sky, with the superimposed figure.]]</nowiki> produces the image to the right. 

==Cool miscellaneous templates==

<nowiki>{{</nowiki>tl|''template name''}} - {{tl|tl}} - Lets you reference a template in order to talk about it (here it is self-referential)

===Blocks===
{{Quote box
 |quote  = The internet is one gigantic well-stocked fridge ready....
 |source = --"Mega 'Zines'", ''[[Macworld]]'' (1995)<ref>Quote Reference here</ref>
 |width = 30%
 |align= right
 |bgcolor= #c6dbf7
}}
<pre>{{Quote box
 |quote  = The internet is one gigantic well-stocked fridge ready....
 |source = --"Mega 'Zines'", ''[[Macworld]]'' (1995)<ref>Quote Reference here</ref>
 |width = 30%
 |align= right
 |bgcolor= #c6dbf7
}}</pre>

===Graphics / icons===
Here's the list:
*{{tl|Done}} – {{Done}}
*{{tl|Done-t}}, a non-graphical alternative to {{Tl|Done}} – {{done-t}}
*{{tl|Not done}} – {{Not done}}
*{{tl|Not done-t}}, a non-graphical alternative to {{Tl|Not done}} – {{not done-t}}
*{{tl|Not done and will not be done}}  (or {{tl|Notdone2}}) – {{Not done and will not be done}}
*{{tl|Stale-small}} - {{Stale-small}}
*{{tl|Partly done}} – {{Partly done}}
*{{tl|Half done}} – {{Half done}}
*{{tl|Fixed}} – {{Fixed}}
*{{tl|Won't fix}} – {{Won't fix}}
*{{tl|Added}} –  {{Added}}
*{{tl|Doing}} – {{Doing}}
*{{tl|Isdoing}} – {{Isdoing|Example}}
*{{tl|Awaiting}} – {{Awaiting}}
*{{tl|Not sure}} – {{Not sure}}
*{{tl|Checking}} – {{Checking}}
*{{tl|Discussing}} – {{Discussing}}
*{{tl|Sent}} – {{Sent}}
*{{tl|Uploaded}} – {{uploaded}}
*{{tl|Snow}} – {{Snow}}
*{{tl|Question}} — {{Question}}
*{{tl|Idea}} – {{Idea}}
*{{tl|Warnsign}} – {{Warnsign}}
*{{tl|Thank you}} – {{Thank you}}
*{{tl|You're welcome}} – {{You're welcome}}
*{{tl|Tick}}, produces the tick alone – {{Tick}}
*{{tl|Cross}}, produces the cross alone – {{Cross}}
*{{tl|Qmark}}, produces the questionmark alone — {{Qmark}}
*{{tl|Bulb}}, produces the bulb alone – {{Bulb}}
*{{tl|Await}}, produces the clock alone – {{Await}}
*{{tl|Merge done}}, for completed mergers – {{Merge done|nocat=true}}


Check marks:

* {{tl|Check mark}}  {{Check mark}} 
* {{tl|Tick}} = {{tlx|Tick|20}}  {{Tick}} 
* {{tl|Y}}, {{tl|y}}, {{tl|aye}}  {{aye}} 
* {{tl|Ya}}, {{tl|ya}}  {{Ya}} 
* {{tl|Check mark-n}}  {{Check mark-n}} 
* {{tl|Y&}}  {{Y&}} 
* [[:File:☑.svg]]  [[File:Check_mark.svg]] 

X marks

* {{tl|Xmark|23}}  {{Xmark|23}}
* {{tl|Cross}} = {{tlx|Cross|20}}  {{Cross}}
* {{tl|N}}, {{tl|n}}, {{tl|nay}}  {{nay}}
* {{tl|Na}}, {{tl|na}}  {{Na}}
* {{tl|X mark-n}}  {{X mark-n}}
* {{tl|N&}}  {{N&}}
* [[:File:☒.svg]]  [[File:☒.svg]]

Other

* {{tl|n.b.}}  {{n.b.}} 
* {{tl|hmmm}}  {{hmmm}}
* {{tl|bang}}  {{bang}}

===See also===

* {{tl|Done/See also}} - these have been copied below
* [[Template:Resolved/See also|List of "Resolved", "Unresolved" and other templates for entire threads]]
* {{tl|check mark templates}}