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Revision as of 20:19, 7 July 2017

Link to Cheatsheet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet

Copy of Cheatsheet (Copied from Wikipedia, and therefore might have some differences from here):

Contents


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

[[Tradeskill]]
[[Tradeskill]]ing

Tradeskill
Tradeskilling

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

[[Cultural Tradeskills: Dark Elf | Dark Elf Blacksmithing]]

Dark Elf Blacksmithing

Link to a section

[[Brewing#Leveling Guide]]
[[Brewing#Leveling Guide| Leveling Brewing]]

Brewing#Leveling Guide
Leveling Brewing

Signature
sign your contributions when posting to a talk page

~~~~

do not sign in an article, only on talk pages

Username (talk) 12:51, 7 November 2025 (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to show your previous comment is outdated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>[[Roots]] are the best food.</s>

Roots are the best food.

Underline your text

<u>This topic is notable</u>

This topic is notable

Hide text somewhere for editors

<!--This had consensus, discuss at talk page-->

Show an image
for uploading, see the intro to uploading images
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 saved
Link to a category
[[:Category:Category name]]


<center>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 pageName]]

Redirect to a section of another page

#REDIRECT [[Target pageName#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

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5
Level 6
Bulleted list

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three

  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
Indenting text
this is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations.

no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent
::::fourth indent

no indent (normal)

first indent
second indent
third indent
fourth indent


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