Editing Help:Editing

== Basic formatting ==

{|align="center" class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|-<!--COLUMN HEADINGS-->
| class="header" width="25%" style="text-align:center;"|'''Description'''
| class="header" style="text-align:center;"|'''You type''' 
| class="header" width="25%" style="text-align:center;"|'''You get'''
|-<!--1ST ROW 1ST COLUMN-->
|Italic text
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<tt><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></tt>
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''italic''
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|colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #FFE4C4;"|
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|Bold text
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<tt><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></tt>
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'''bold'''
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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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|Internal link<br />
<div style="padding: 0em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''(within the wiki)''</div>
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<tt><nowiki>[[Bengal]]</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>[[Bengal|A large UEE carrier]]</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>[[Bengal]]s and [[Hornet]]s</nowiki></tt>
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[[Bengal]]<br />
[[Bengal|A large UEE carrier]]<br />
[[Bengal]]s and [[Hornet]]s
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|Anchor links
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<tt><nowiki>[[Current_Page#Heading|Heading]]</nowiki>
<tt><nowiki>[[Other_Page#Heading|Heading]]</nowiki>
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''Scrolls current page down to linked heading.''
''Goes to linked page, then scrolls to heading.''
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|Categorization
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<nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:Ships]]<br />
<nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:Ships/fr]] (on French pages)
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''Places the page in [[:Category:Ships]]''<br />
''Places the page in [[:Category:Ships/fr]]''
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|External link<br />
<div style="padding: 0em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''(to other websites)''</div>
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<tt><nowiki>[http://www.example.org Text to display]</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>[http://www.example.org]</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>http://www.example.org</nowiki></tt>
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[http://www.example.org Text to display]<br />
[http://www.example.org]<br />
http://www.example.org
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|Redirect to another page
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<tt><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Target page]]</nowiki></tt>
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[[Image:Redirect arrow.png]][[Target page]]
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|Section headings<br />
<div style="padding: 0em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.''</div>
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<tt><nowiki>== Level 1 ==</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>=== Level 2 ===</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>==== Level 3 ====</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>===== Level 4 =====</nowiki></tt><br />
<tt><nowiki>====== Level 5 ======</nowiki></tt>
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== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
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|Bulleted list
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<tt>* One</tt><br />
<tt>* Two</tt><br />
<tt>** Two point one</tt><br />
<tt>* Three</tt>
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* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three
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|Numbered list<br />
<div style="padding: 0em .5em; font-size:0.9em;">''Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.''</div>
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<tt># One</tt><br />
<tt># Two</tt><br />
<tt>## Two point one</tt><br />
<tt># Three</tt><br />
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# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three
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|Indenting text
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<tt><nowiki>no indent (normal)</nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>:first indent</nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>::second indent</nowiki></tt><br/>
<tt><nowiki>:::third indent</nowiki></tt>
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no indent (normal)<br/>
:first indent
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:::third indent
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|Image
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<tt><nowiki>[[Image:Placeholderv2.png‎‎|100px]]</nowiki></tt>
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[[Image:Placeholderv2.png|100px]]
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|Thumbnail image
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<tt><nowiki>[[</nowiki>Image:Placeholderv2.png|thumb|Caption text<nowiki>]]</nowiki></tt>
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[[File:Placeholderv2.png‎‎|thumb|100px|Caption text]]
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== Creating a page ==
There are three ways to create a new page on the Star Citizen Wiki:

Firstly you can simply type the name of the new page you wish to create into the Search box on the left navigation menu. If the page does not currently exist, the page displayed will advise you that '''There is no page titled "''[page you searched for]''"'''. You can '''create this page'''. Click the ''create this page'' link to create the new page.

Secondly, you can navigate to the [[Wikipedia:Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] of the new page directly. For example, typing out <nowiki>http://starcitizen.tools/wiki/New_page</nowiki> into your browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will take you to a '''New page''' document. On that page you can click the '''Create''' tab to bring up the editing box.

Alternatively any page that contains a red link indicates that the page does not exist. Clicking on the link will take you to a page where the first version can be written and saved. 

== Creating a subpage ==

'''Please do not make subpages.''' Outside of the translation system (which does this automatically), please do not make subpages. Avoid using '/' in article titles. - '''Management'''

Subpages can be thought of as ''children'' of articles in the document tree. As such they should be used when you wish to create an article that is intrinsically linked to the parent article. Articles that have been translated into different languages use subpages to store the separate content. For example, the [[Main Page]] has a [[Main Page/pl]] which has the translated content in Polish.

To create a subpage, the same procedure should be used as above using the forward slash ('''/''') to indicate the separation between the original page, and the subpage. Example:- '''<code><nowiki>Original page name/Subpage name</nowiki></code>'''.

== Saving pages ==
Once edited, before actually saving your changes, make good use of the ''''Show preview'''' button to preview the changes. Avoid saving too often or saving just to see what it looks like. Each page save will generate an entry in [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]]. Repeated trivial and unnecessary saves tend to clutter up that list and inconvenience users who make use of that list to watch for vandals or misinformed edits. Once you are happy with your changes, enter a brief summary of what changes you have made in the ''''Summary:'''' text box and click the ''''Save page'''' button.

The ''''This is a minor edit'''' tick box should be used if small changes (for example, grammar corrections) have been made. The ''''Watch this page'''' tick box is useful to keep an eye on changes to that article. These will show up in your ''''My Watchlist'''' (found at the top right of the wiki when you are logged in) if any changes have been made.

== See also ==
* [[Help:Contents]] &ndash; main help page
* [[Help:Templates]] &ndash; a list of all the templates

=== External ===
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents MediaWiki Help]

* [[Wikipedia:Cheatsheet|Wikipedia Cheatsheet]]

[[Category:Help|Editing]]