Help:Editing

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Editing Help

Categories

For available categories, see Article Categories or Government Sources.

Formatting

Here are a number of basic formatting tasks you may find helpful, and possibly non-obvious.

• Blank Lines - To insert a blank line, add <br/> to the end of a line. In most cases, the system will collapse whitespace so that it is displayed appropriately in windows of all sizes. Only use this technique if you really need to break onto a new line.
• Numbered lists
  

  Format your text like this: <ol> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> <li>Third item</li> </ol>

  Which is displayed like: First item Second item Third item

• Bulleted lists
  

  Format your text like this: <ul> <li>First item</li> <li>Second item</li> <li>Third item</li> </ul>

  Which is displayed like: First item Second item Third item

  Note that in both list types, items are allowed to be very long and may span many lines of text. In this case, the will be displayed with a nice automatic hanging indent.

• Article Links - Wherever possible, it would be best when linking to another article, to work the link into a sentence rather than creating a link that hangs alone. You can control the text that is displayed to ease the sentence by using the format [[the article name|the text to show]]. If this is too awkward given the article, it would be reasonable to add a section at the bottom like:

  == Related Articles ==
  [[Article 1]]
  [[Article 2]]
  

  Given a choice, please lean on the first option more but recognize that the second one may be necessary in some situations.