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Template:Shortcut Wikipedia Cheatsheet For more advanced details, see How to edit a page
Description	You type	You get
Italic textTemplate:Anchor	''italic''	italic
Bold textTemplate:Anchor	'''bold'''	bold
Bold and italicTemplate:Anchor	'''''bold & italic'''''	bold & italic
Internal linkTemplate:Anchor (within Wikipedia)	[[Name of page]] [[Name of page|Text to display]]	Name of page Text to display
External linkTemplate:Anchor (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 pageTemplate:Anchor	#REDIRECT [[Target page]]	30pxTarget page
Footnotes/ReferencesTemplate:Anchor 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.<ref name="test">Link text, additional text.</ref>
	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 <references/> Template:Tl	<references />
Section headingsTemplate:Anchor<ref name="firstline">Applies only at the very beginning of lines.</ref> 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 listTemplate:Anchor<ref name="firstline" /> Empty lines between list items discouraged, (see numbered lists).	* One * Two ** Two point one * Three	One Two Two point one Three
Numbered listTemplate:Anchor<ref name="firstline" /> Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.	# One # Two ## Two point one # Three	One Two Two point one Three
Thumbnail imageTemplate:Anchor	[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]]	File:Wiki.png Caption text
For Talk Pages
SignatureTemplate:Anchor	~~~~ ~~~	Username (talk) 23:48, 21 November 2024 (UTC) Username (talk)
Indenting textTemplate:Anchor<ref name="firstline" />	no indent (normal) :first indent ::second indent :::third indent	no indent (normal) first indent second indent third indent
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