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<div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%; padding-top: 10px">Editing Tips:</div>
* Create links to other pages using two square brackets: typing <code><nowiki>[[Roses 2007]]</nowiki></code> creates <code>[[Roses 2007]]</code>.
 
* Boldify text using three apostrophes: typing <code><nowiki>'''History Wiki'''</nowiki></code> creates <code>'''History Wiki'''</code>.
'''If you are unsure of a fact''', use the 'unsure' template to mark it clearly:
* Show that you're unsure of something by using the 'unsure' template: <code><nowiki>{{unsure|In late 2008…}}</nowiki></code> creates {{unsure|In late 2008…}}.
<nowiki>{{</nowiki>unsure|''whatever it is you're unsure about''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>
* Create a list by placing asterisks at the start of each line:
 
* Item 1 is '''in bold'''
'''Links to pages''' are in double-square-braces:
  * Item 2 is [[Main Page|very important]]
  <nowiki>[[page to link to]]</nowiki>
* ''Item 3 is italicised''
 
See [[Help:Formatting#Text_formatting_markup|the formatting help page]] for more details and other formatting options.
'''Lists''' are paragraphs with asterisks at the start of each line... see [[Help:Formatting#Text_formatting_markup|the formatting page]] for more details and other formatting options.

Latest revision as of 22:00, 28 October 2009

  • Create links to other pages using two square brackets: typing [[Roses 2007]] creates Roses 2007.
  • Boldify text using three apostrophes: typing '''History Wiki''' creates History Wiki.
  • Show that you're unsure of something by using the 'unsure' template: {{unsure|In late 2008…}} creates In late 2008…Unverified or incomplete information.
  • Create a list by placing asterisks at the start of each line:
* Item 1 is in bold
* Item 2 is very important
* Item 3 is italicised

See the formatting help page for more details and other formatting options.