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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]]	File:Redirect arrow without text.svgTarget 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.
	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/> {{Reflist}}
Section headingsTemplate:Anchor 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 Empty lines between list items discouraged, (see numbered lists).	* One * Two ** Two point one * Three	One Two Two point one Three
Numbered listTemplate:Anchor 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
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See also

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User contribution pages, article history pages, watch lists, and recent changes are helpful in keeping track of what your fellow editors are doing. This graphic explains some of the features.

• For a tour of features, see the Introduction to Wikipedia.
• Magic Words of Wikipedia
• For experimentation with editing, use the sandbox.
• For a guide to more advanced page editing, see How to edit a page
• The Wikipedia Manual of Style
• For a checklist of elements required to make a "perfect" article, see The perfect article.
• For print cheatsheets, see the MediaWiki reference card or the poster-size cheatsheet (available in many languages).
• The encyclopedic article on cheat sheets
• Citation templates