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Editing Cheatsheet

For more advanced details, see How to edit a page

Description You type You get
Italic text

''italic''

italic

Bold text

'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

Internal link
(within Wikipedia)

[[Name of page]]
[[Name of page|Text to display]]

Name of page
Text to display

External link
(to other websites)

[http://www.example.org Text to display]
[http://www.example.org]
http://www.example.org

Text to display
[1]
http://www.example.org

Redirect to another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page]]

Redirect arrow without text.pngTarget page

Footnotes/References
Numbering is generated automatically.
To create a footnote or reference, use this format:

Article text.<ref name="test">[http://www.example.org Link text], additional text.</ref>

Article text.[1]
To reuse the same note, reuse the name with a trailing slash:

Article text.<ref name="test" />

To display notes, add either of these lines to the References section

  1. Link text, additional text.

Section headings[1]
A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.

== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Level 5
Bulleted list[1]
Empty lines between list items discouraged, (see numbered lists).

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three

  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list[1]
Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
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Thumbnail image

[[Image:Plankton.jpg|thumb|Plankton]]

Plankton
  1. a b c Applies only at the very beginning of lines.