User:Aaron.Sullivan/Short Markup Example

This page will give you some basic tools for editing your articles. You are only required to use Section Headings, however if you intend to upload your article to Wikipedia, you may want to use pictures, lists or formatted text as well.

If you want to be able to do something not included here, you can find additional information on the Cheatsheet, or see a much, much longer list of options on the Help:Wiki_markup page. Much the information below has been selectively copied from that page.

Section Headings
{| class="wikitable" ! style="width: 50%" | What it looks like ! style="width: 50%" | What you type Section headings

Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them. Start with 2 'equals' characters.

Subsection Using more 'equals' characters creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection

Don't skip levels, like from two to four 'equals' characters.



Section headings
Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them. Start with 2 'equals' characters.

Subsection
Using more 'equals' characters creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection
Don't skip levels, like from two to four 'equals' characters.


 * }

Center text
Template center uses the same markup. To center a table, see Help:Table.

Images
Only images that have been uploaded to Wikipedia can be used. To upload images, use the upload page. You can find the uploaded image on the image list.

See the Wikipedia's image use policy as a guideline used on Wikipedia.

For further help on images, including some more versatile abilities, see the picture tutorial.

Free links
In Wikipedia and some other Wikis, free links are used in Wikitext markup to produce internal links between pages, as opposed to the concept of CamelCase for the same purpose, which was used in the early days of Wikipedia, see CamelCase and Wikipedia.

In Wikipedia's markup language, you create free links by putting double square brackets around text designating the title of the page you want to link to. Thus,   will be rendered as Texas. Optionally, you can use a vertical bar (|) to customize the link title. For example, typing    will produce Lone Star state, a link that is displayed as " Lone Star state " but in fact links to Texas.

Link to another Wiki article

 * Internally, the first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link has the same effect as typing a space, but is not recommended).
 * Thus the link below is to the URL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport, which is the Wikipedia article with the name "Public transport". See also Canonicalization.
 * A red link is a page that doesn't exist yet; it can be created by clicking on the link.
 * A link to its own page will appear only as bold text.

Renamed link

 * Same target, different name.
 * The target ("piped") text must be placed first, then the text to be displayed second.

References and Citing Sources
To cite your sources, use  and   tags with the citation in between them. At the end of your paper, type  where you want the bibliography to be generated.

See the example below.

{| class="wikitable" ! What it looks like ! What you type "I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign." This is how Benedict Anderson defined the nation in his ground breaking book.