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Here you'll learn the basics of article formatting.

Formatting

Works anywhere in the text        
Description You type You get
Italics, bold, and both

''italics'', '''bold''', and '''''both'''''

italics, bold, and both

Link to another page

[[Bound Shovel]]
[[Bound Shovel]]ling

Bound Shovel
Bound Shovelling

"Pipe" a link to change the link's text

[[Help:Revert|Revert]]

Revert

Link to a section

[[Arcane Beam#Damage]]
[[Arcane Beam#Damage|Damage]]

Arcane Beam#Damage
Damage

Red link

[[something missing]]

something missing

References and footnotes
sources in the article will appear where <references/> is put, typically under a level 2 section heading (see below) towards the bottom of the page.

Hello,<ref>Library of Congress</ref> World.<ref>http://www.w3.org/</ref>

References: <references/>

Hello,[1] World.[2]

References:

  1. Library of Congress
  2. http://www.w3.org/
Signature

~~~~

do not sign in an article, only on talk pages

Username (talk) 08:53, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Plain website

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://www.wikipedia.org

Link a website

[http://www.wikipedia.org]

[1]

Link and name a website

[http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]

Wikipedia

Strike your talk page comment
to show your previous comment is outdated

<s>This topic isn't notable.</s>

This topic isn't notable.

Hide text somewhere for editors
consensus is how things are decided

<!--This had consensus, discuss at talk page-->

Show an image

[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption]]

Caption
Templates

Warning! Spoiler: {{spoiler|some text}}

Warning! Spoiler: some text

Add a page to a category [[Category:Category name]]

place near the bottom of a page
shows "Category name" in a bar at bottom when the page is previewed or saved
Works only at the beginning of lines    
Description You type You get
Redirect to another page
redirects must be placed at the start of the first line

#REDIRECT [[Target page]]

Takes visitors to that page to "Target page"

Redirect to a section of another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page#anchorName]]

Takes visitors to that page to "Target page#anchorName"

Section headings
a Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article

==Level 2==
===Level 3===
====Level 4====
=====Level 5=====
======Level 6======

do not use  =Level 1=  as it is for page titles

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5
Level 6
Nonindexed headers
left out of Table of Contents

; Header name

has a leading semicolon ";" in front

Header name

will not appear in Table of Contents
Bulleted list

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three

  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
Indenting text
this is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations

no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent

no indent (normal)

first indent
second indent
third indent

Would you like to try some formatting?

Enter ShoutWiki's Sandbox, and try the following:

  1. Click edit above
  2. Try to add some formatted text
  3. Click Show preview to check what you have written
  4. Click Save page to save your writing