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You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two single quotes like <tt><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></tt>
  
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== Adding References ==
  
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<nowiki>[[Category:A]]</nowiki>  adds  an article to Category, A
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To find out how to add references using footnotes, see [[Conservapedia:Footnotes - technical help|this Help page]].
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<nowiki>[[Image:A.GIF]]</nowiki> loads the picture A.GIF on an article
 
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<nowiki>{{Car}}</nowiki> adds the template Car to an article
 
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<nowiki>#Redirect[[A]]</nowiki> redirects an article to the article, A
 
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<nowiki>{{SUBST:ABC}}</nowiki> substitutes all the information from Template:ABC into the article, note all future changes to the template:ABC will not be shown on the article
 
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<nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> puts your signature on a page
 
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<nowiki>{{welcome}} --~~~~</nowiki> welcomes a user to Conservapedia, note this should only be put on a user's talk page
 
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==References==
 
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<nowiki><ref>[nick.com]</ref></nowiki> cites nick.com as a reference for an article's claim
 
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<nowiki>{{Reflist}}</nowiki> makes a list of all the references used in an article
 
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==Proposals==
 
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<nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> propose deletion of an article
 
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<nowiki>{{merge with|A}}</nowiki> propose merging an article with the article, A
 
  
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==Linking==
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== Paragraphs ==
  
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<nowiki>[[Car]]</nowiki> links to the article Car using the word Car
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Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <tt><nowiki><br /></nowiki></tt>. 
  
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<nowiki>[[Car|Hello]]</nowiki> links to the article Car with the word Hello
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== HTML ==
  
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<nowiki>[[:Category:A]]</nowiki> links to the Category, A
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Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <tt><nowiki><code></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><div></nowiki></tt>, <tt><nowiki><span></nowiki></tt> and <tt><nowiki><font></nowiki></tt>.
  
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<nowiki>[[:Category:Conservapedians|WXYZ]]</nowiki> links to the category, Conservapedians, using the word WXYZ
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== Recapitulative table ==
  
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<nowiki>[[:Image:A.GIF]]</nowiki> links to the picture A.GIF
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{| align="center" {{Prettytable}}
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|-
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||'''Description'''
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||'''You type'''
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||'''You get'''
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|-
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| colspan="3" align="center" | ''applies anywhere''
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|-
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| Underlined text
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|<tt><nowiki><u>underlined</u></nowiki></tt>
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|<u>underlined</u>
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|-
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|Italic text
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|<tt><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></tt>
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|''italic''
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|-
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|Italic text
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|<tt><nowiki><i>italic</i></nowiki></tt>
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|''italic''
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|-
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| Bold text
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|<tt><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></tt>
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|'''bold'''
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|-
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| Bold text
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|<tt><nowiki><b>bold</b></nowiki></tt>
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|<b>bold</b>
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|-
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| Bold and italic
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|<tt><nowiki>'''''bold & italic'''''</nowiki></tt>
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|'''''bold & italic'''''
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|-
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| Bold and italic
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|<tt><nowiki><b><i>bold & italic</i></b></nowiki></tt>
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|<b><i>bold & italic</i></b>
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|-
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| Bold and italic
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|<tt><nowiki><i><b>bold & italic</b></i></nowiki></tt>
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|<i><b>bold & italic</b></i>
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|-
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|assign a color to your text
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|<tt><nowiki><font color=blue>blue text</font></nowiki></tt>
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|<font color=blue>blue text</font>
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|-
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|assign a size to your text
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|<tt><nowiki><font size=5>size 5 text</font></nowiki></tt>
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|<font size=5>size 5 text</font>
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|-
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|bigger text
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|<tt><nowiki><big>big text</big></nowiki></tt>
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|<big>big text</big>
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|-
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|even bigger text
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|<tt><nowiki><big><big>bigger text</big></big></nowiki></tt>
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|<big><big>bigger text</big></big>
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|-
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|striked through text
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|<tt><nowiki><s>striked through text</s></nowiki></tt>
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|<s>striked through text</s>
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|-
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|display name of page
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|<tt><nowiki>{{SUBST:PAGENAME}}</nowiki></tt>
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|Deborah/sandbox
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|-
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|Escape wiki markup
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|<tt><nowiki><nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki></nowiki></tt>
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|<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>
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|-
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| colspan="3" align="center" | ''only at the beginning of the line''
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|-
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|Headings of<br />
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different sizes
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<tt><nowiki>==level 1==</nowiki></tt><br />
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<tt><nowiki>===level 2===</nowiki></tt><br />
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<tt><nowiki>====level 3====</nowiki></tt><br />
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<tt><nowiki>=====level 4=====</nowiki></tt>
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==Level 1==
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===Level 2===
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====Level 3====
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=====Level 4=====
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|-
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|Horizontal rule
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<tt><nowiki>----</nowiki></tt>
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|-
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|Bullet list
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&#42; one<br>
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&#42; two<br>
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&#42; three<br>
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&#42;&#42; three and one-third<br>
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&#42;&#42; three and two-thirds<br>
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* one
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* two
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* three
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** three and one-third
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** three and two-thirds
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|-
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|Numbered list
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&#35; one<br />
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&#35; two<br />
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&#35; three<br />
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&#35;&#35; three point one<br />
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&#35;&#35; three point two<br />
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# one
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# two
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# three
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## three point one
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## three point two
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|Definition list
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&#59;Definition<br />
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&#58;item 1<br />
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&#58;item 2<br />
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;Definition
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:item 1
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:item 2
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|Preformatted text
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&nbsp;&nbsp;preformatted text is done with<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;a space at the<br />
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preformatted text is done with
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<nowiki>[www.nick.com]</nowiki> links to an external site, nick.com
 
  
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==Font==
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__NOTOC__
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__NOEDITSECTION__
  
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<nowiki>''Car''</nowiki> italicizes the word Car
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==Links==
  
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<nowiki>'''Car'''</nowiki> Bolds the word Car
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To create a link to an article, surround the word you would like to make a link with two sets of brackets like this: <nowiki>[[Link]]</nowiki>
  
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<nowiki>'''''Car'''''</nowiki> Bolds and Italicizes the word Car
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To create a link with a title that is different than the page it is linked to format the link like this:<nowiki>[[Page linked to|title]]</nowiki>
  
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<nowiki><big>abc</big></nowiki> makes the text abc bigger
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To create an external link surround the web address with <nowiki>[ and a ]</nowiki> for example to make an external link to fox.com, you would do the following <nowiki>[fox.com]</nowiki>
  
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<nowiki><big><big>abc</big></big></nowiki> makes the text abc even bigger
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To create a link to a category after the <nowiki>[[ put an :</nowiki> for example to create a link to the category, Conservapedians, do the following: <nowiki>[[:Category:Conservapedians]]</nowiki> you can also change the default text like this: <nowiki>[[:Category:Conservapedians|WXYZ]]</nowiki>
  
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<nowiki><u>Hello</u></nowiki> underlines the word Hello
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To create a link to an image after the <nowiki>[[ put an :</nowiki> for example to create a link to the image, Cat.jpg, do the following: <nowiki>[[:Image:Cat.jpg]]</nowiki> you can also change the default text like this: <nowiki>[[:Image:Cat.jpg|WXYZ]]</nowiki>
  
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<nowiki><s>abc</s></nowiki> strikes through abc
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To create a list of links put an * in front of each link, for example:
  
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<nowiki><font color=blue>Word</font></nowiki> makes Word blue
 
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<nowiki><font size=55>abc</font></nowiki> sets abc to the font size of 55
 
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==Use a reference more than once in an article==
 
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<nowiki><ref name="a">[nick.com]</ref></nowiki> is used for the first time
 
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==Creating a list of internal links==
 
 
<nowiki>*[[A]]</nowiki>
 
<nowiki>*[[A]]</nowiki>
  
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<nowiki>*[[D]]</nowiki>
 
<nowiki>*[[D]]</nowiki>
  
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==Proposals==
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<nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki> propose deletion of an article
  
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==Making templates==
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<nowiki>{{merge with|A}}</nowiki> propose merging an article with the article, A
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<nowiki>{{{1}}}</nowiki> creates a parameter for a template
 
  
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<nowiki>{{{1|car}}}</nowiki> creates a parameter for a template whose default is car
 
  
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<nowiki>{{{myage}}}</nowiki> creates a parameter named myage for a template
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==Creating redirects==
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To create a redirect put a <nowiki>#Redirect[[ then the name of the page for it to be redirected then ]]</nowiki>
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for example to redirect this page to the article on Bear, you'd put: <nowiki>#Redirect[[Bear]]</nowiki>
  
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<nowiki>{{{myage|car}}}</nowiki> creates a parameter named myage for a template whose default is car
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==Other==
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<nowiki>[[Category:A]]</nowiki>  adds  an article to Category, A
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<nowiki>[[Image:A.GIF]]</nowiki> loads the picture A.GIF on an article
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<nowiki>{{Car}}</nowiki> adds the template Car to an article
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<nowiki>{{SUBST:ABC}}</nowiki> substitutes all the information from Template:ABC into the article, note all future changes to the template:ABC will not be shown on the article
  
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<nowiki>{{welcome}} --~~~~</nowiki> welcomes a user to Conservapedia, note this should only be put on a user's talk page
  
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named parameters for example <nowiki>{{myage}}</nowiki> versus <nowiki> {{{1}}} or {{{2}}} or {{{3}}}</nowiki> do not have to be put in any particular  order
 
  
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==Signature==
  
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for example let us say there is a template called Template:User age, that looks like this, <nowiki>{{{1}}} is my age</nowiki>
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To sign your username, type three tildes<nowiki>(~~~)</nowiki>.  To sign your username with a timestamp, use four tildes <nowiki>(~~~~)</nowiki>
  
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you would put <nowiki>{{User age|12}}</nowiki> for the template to display, 12 is my age
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===Making a custom signature===
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first make a subpage of user page which has your custom signature for example, User:Deborah/sig go to, my preferences click on raw signatures and put <nowiki>{{Subst:User:Deborah/sig}}</nowiki>
  
  
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another example let us say there is a template called Template:User age, that looks like this, <nowiki>{{{1}}} is my age, I was born in the month, {{{2}}}</nowiki>
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== Creating articles ==
  
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you would put <nowiki>{{User age|12|December}}</nowiki> for the template to display, 12 is my age I was born in the month December
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Please see [[Help:How to create a new article|How to create a new article]] for help on this.
  
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See [[Help:Category tag|Category tag]] for help on assigning articles to categories.
  
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another example let us say there is a template called Template:User age, that looks like this, <nowiki>{{{myage}}} is my age</nowiki>
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== Editing etiquette ==
  
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you would put <nowiki>{{User age|myage=19}}</nowiki> for the template to display, 19 is my age
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Observe good [[help:editing etiquette|editing etiquette]] when editing.
  
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== Templates ==
  
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another example let us say there is a template called Template:User age, that looks like this, <nowiki>{{{myage}}} is my age, I was born in the month, {{{mymonth}}}</nowiki>
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See [[help:templates|here]] for a list of templates with brief descriptions.
  
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you would put <nowiki>{{User age|myage=19|my month=January}}</nowiki> for the template to display, 19 is my age, I was born in the month, January    you also could put <nowiki>{{User age|my month=January|myage=19}}</nowiki> for the same result
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See [[help:creating templates|here]] for creating templates.
  
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==How do you make a custom signature==
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[[Category:Help|Formatting]]
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first make a subpage of user page which has your custom signature for example, User:Deborah/sig
 
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go to, my preferences click on raw signatures and put <nowiki>{{SUBST:User:Deborah/sig}}</nowiki>
 

Revision as of 22:58, May 2, 2008

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''

Adding References

To find out how to add references using footnotes, see this Help page.

Paragraphs

Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br />.

HTML

Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.

Recapitulative table

Description You type You get
applies anywhere
Underlined text <u>underlined</u> underlined
Italic text ''italic'' italic
Italic text <i>italic</i> italic
Bold text '''bold''' bold
Bold text <b>bold</b> bold
Bold and italic '''''bold & italic''''' bold & italic
Bold and italic <b><i>bold & italic</i></b> bold & italic
Bold and italic <i><b>bold & italic</b></i> bold & italic
assign a color to your text <font color=blue>blue text</font> blue text
assign a size to your text <font size=5>size 5 text</font> size 5 text
bigger text <big>big text</big> big text
even bigger text <big><big>bigger text</big></big> bigger text
striked through text <s>striked through text</s> striked through text
display name of page {{SUBST:PAGENAME}} Deborah/sandbox
Escape wiki markup <nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki> no ''markup''
only at the beginning of the line
Headings of

different sizes

==level 1==
===level 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Horizontal rule

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Bullet list

* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
  • one
  • two
  • three
    • three and one-third
    • three and two-thirds
Numbered list

# one
# two
# three
## three point one
## three point two
  1. one
  2. two
  3. three
    1. three point one
    2. three point two
Definition list

;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
Definition
item 1
item 2
Preformatted text

  preformatted text is done with
  a space at the
  beginning of the line

 
preformatted text is done with
a space at the 
beginning of the line



Links

To create a link to an article, surround the word you would like to make a link with two sets of brackets like this: [[Link]]

To create a link with a title that is different than the page it is linked to format the link like this:[[Page linked to|title]]

To create an external link surround the web address with [ and a ] for example to make an external link to fox.com, you would do the following [fox.com]

To create a link to a category after the [[ put an : for example to create a link to the category, Conservapedians, do the following: [[:Category:Conservapedians]] you can also change the default text like this: [[:Category:Conservapedians|WXYZ]]

To create a link to an image after the [[ put an : for example to create a link to the image, Cat.jpg, do the following: [[:Image:Cat.jpg]] you can also change the default text like this: [[:Image:Cat.jpg|WXYZ]]

To create a list of links put an * in front of each link, for example:

*[[A]]

*[[B]]

*[[C]]

*[[D]]

Proposals

{{delete}} propose deletion of an article

{{merge with|A}} propose merging an article with the article, A


Creating redirects

To create a redirect put a #Redirect[[ then the name of the page for it to be redirected then ]] for example to redirect this page to the article on Bear, you'd put: #Redirect[[Bear]]

Other

[[Category:A]] adds an article to Category, A

[[Image:A.GIF]] loads the picture A.GIF on an article

{{Car}} adds the template Car to an article

{{SUBST:ABC}} substitutes all the information from Template:ABC into the article, note all future changes to the template:ABC will not be shown on the article

{{welcome}} --~~~~ welcomes a user to Conservapedia, note this should only be put on a user's talk page


Signature

To sign your username, type three tildes(~~~). To sign your username with a timestamp, use four tildes (~~~~)

Making a custom signature

first make a subpage of user page which has your custom signature for example, User:Deborah/sig go to, my preferences click on raw signatures and put {{Subst:User:Deborah/sig}}


Creating articles

Please see How to create a new article for help on this.

Categories

See Category tag for help on assigning articles to categories.

Editing etiquette

Observe good editing etiquette when editing.

Templates

See here for a list of templates with brief descriptions.

See here for creating templates.

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