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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 see Help:Interwikimedia links for linking to sister projects	`[[copy edit]]` `[[copy edit]]ors`	copy edit copy editors

"Pipe" a link to change the link's text	`[[Android (operating system)\|Android]]`	Android

Link to a section	`[[Frog#Locomotion]]` `[[Frog#Locomotion\|locomotion in frogs]]` `{{slink\|Frog#Locomotion}}`	Frog#Locomotion locomotion in frogs Frog § Locomotion

Red link Links to pages that don't exist are automatically red. Red links in articles often help by showing desired redirects or notable pages.	`[[Red link example]]`	Red link example

Plain website	`https://www.wikipedia.org`	https://www.wikipedia.org

Link a website	`[https://www.wikipedia.org]`	[1]

Link and name a website	`[https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]`	Wikipedia

Citations, references, and footnotes sources in the article will appear where {{reflist}} is put, typically under a level 2 section heading (see below) towards the bottom of the page; text between {{}} is for a template.	Hello<ref name="LoC">[https://www.loc.gov/about/ Library of Congress]</ref> World!<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/ \|title = World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)}}</ref> Hello again!<ref name="LoC" /><ref>Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.</ref> References: {{reflist}}	Hello^[1] World!^[2] Hello again!^[1]^[3] References: ^ ^a ^b Library of Congress ^ "World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)". ^ Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.

Template:Citation needed one of many cleanup templates	`This statement is true.{{cn}}`	This statement is true.^{[citation needed]}

Signature sign your contributions when posting to a talk page	`~~~~` do not sign in an article, only on talk pages	Username (talk) 21:09, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Ping a user on a talk page so they will see your comment	`[[User:Example]]` or `{{u\|Example}}`	User:Example or Example

Strike your talk page comment to show your previous comment is outdated	`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.~~

Underline your text	`<u>This topic is notable</u>`	This topic is notable

Hide comment(s) somewhere for editors; hidden comments are visible only in the 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	`[[File:Wiki.png\|thumb\|Caption]]`	Caption

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 published

Link to a category or file	`[[:Category:Category name]]` `[[:File:File name]]`	Category:Wikipedia basic information File:Example.jpg
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]]`	Target page

Redirect to a section of another page	`#REDIRECT [[Target page#anchorName]]`	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

[LoC-1] Library of Congress

[2] "World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)".

[3] Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.

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