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Template:Shortcut

Wikipedia Cheatsheet

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

[[copy edit]]
[[copy edit]]ors

copy edit
copy editors

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

[[People | The People involved in Digital Craft]]

The People involved in Digital Craft

Link to a section

[[People#Students]]
[[People#Students | Students of Digital Craft]]

People#Students
Students of Digital Craft

Red link
Red links show references to pages that don't exist yet ( they don't have content). Click them to add content to that page.

[[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>[http://www.loc.gov/about/ Library of Congress]</ref> World.<ref>http://www.w3.org/</ref>

References: <references />


Hello,[1] World.[2]

References:

SignatureTemplate:Anchor
sign your contributions when posting to a talk page

~~~~

do not sign in an article, only on talk pages

Username (talk) 23:18, 3 November 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to show your previous comment is outdated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 [[WP:N|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
for uploading, see the intro to uploading images

Template:Anchor

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

Template:Citation needed
one of many cleanup templates

This statement is true.{{cn}}

This statement is true.Template:Cn

Add a page to a categoryTemplate:Anchor [[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 pageTemplate:Anchor
redirects must be placed at the start of the first line

#REDIRECT [[Target page]]

30px Target page

Redirect to a section of another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page#anchorName]]

30px Target page#anchorName

Section headingsTemplate:Anchor
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
Bulleted listTemplate:Anchor

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three

  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered listTemplate:Anchor

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
Indenting textTemplate:Anchor
this is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations.
After a string of indents, or to revive a discussion, an outdent {{Outdent|n}} (Template:Outdent) can be used to reset the paragraph to the left margin.

no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent
::::fourth indent
{{Outdent|4}} outdent

no indent (normal)

first indent
second indent
third indent
fourth indent

Template:Outdent (return to left margin)