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Here are a few examples of handy techniques.  To make more sense of them, click on "edit" to see the code that produced these examples.
 
Here are a few examples of handy techniques.  To make more sense of them, click on "edit" to see the code that produced these examples.
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<b>How to <s>strike out</s> text:</b>  Put bracket s bracket in front of the text, then bracket backslash s bracket at the end of the text.
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<b>How to <s>strike out</s> text:</b>  Put <nowiki> <s> </nowiki> in front of the text, then <nowiki> </s> </nowiki>at the end of the text. 
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*Example:  <nowiki>How to <s>strike out</s> text.</nowiki>
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*Result: How to <s>strike out</s> text.
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<b>How to add references/citations:</b>  Put bracket ref bracket, then the title of the reference, then squarebracket then the URL of the reference squarebracket, then bracket backslash ref bracket. <ref>Conservapedia Main Page [http://www.conservapedia.com]</ref> The title can be put after the URL also, but it looks nicer in the reference section when it is put before the URL.  The title will not be seen with the text, it will only appear in the references section if there is one.
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<b>How to add references/citations:</b>  Put <nowiki><ref> Title of Reference [URL of reference] </ref></nowiki> The title can be put after the URL also, but it looks nicer in the reference section when it is put before the URL.  The title will not be seen with the text, it will only appear in the references section if there is one.
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*Example:  <nowiki><ref>Conservapedia Main Page [http://www.conservapedia.com]</ref></nowiki>
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*Result:  (See the References section below.)<ref>Conservapedia Main Page [http://www.conservapedia.com]</ref>
    
<b>How to add a reference section at the end of an article:</b>  
 
<b>How to add a reference section at the end of an article:</b>  
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Put equals equals References equals equals to create the heading.  Then on the next line put bracket references backslash bracket. Every page that includes citations should have a references section at the bottom.
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Put <nowiki>== References ==</nowiki> to create the heading.  Then on the next line put <nowiki><references/>. </nowiki> Every page that includes citations should have a references section at the bottom.
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*Example: 
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<nowiki>== References ==</nowiki>
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<nowiki><references/></nowiki>
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*Result:  See below.
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== References ==
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<references/>
    
==Fan mail==
 
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