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How to Create Headings
For every heading we want to produce, we'll need to use equal signs to denote what level of header we want to use. The smaller the header number, the higher up it is, meaning the larger the heading appears. For instance, a header level of 2 would appear as large, and to make it one would need to use two equal signs on both sides of the heading text, with a space between the equal signs and the text. A header level of 4 would appear much smaller, with four equal signs on either side instead. Collectively, a header level of 4 would use 8 total equal signs.

Links
External Link examples:

Here's another Test. This is accomplished through a single bracket on either side with a space between the link and the link label. Format is always link then label.

And This. To print a linking citation to your text at the end, simply placing the link in square brackets afterwards will be enough.

http://www.youtube.com This will print the hyperlinked link as is.

Internal Link Examples:

Cold War is used with double square brackets and will refer to the Cold War page. This will only work with Wikipedia pages specifically.

But this. is a link label to the Cold War page which works by adding a dividing line between the page and the label in double square brackets. This is a labeled link.

Here, you will find a link to the history of witches in Salem.

Text Editing
To write something down, simply write it as you would in the page editor. Beyond that, there are different ways you can stylize your writing.

Bold text would be produced using three apostrophes on either side of your text, with no spaces between the apostrophes and the text. This would use collectively six apostrophes.

Italic text would be produced using two apostrophes on either side of your text the same way bold text would. Collectively, this would use four apostrophes.

To find further text editing tools and guides, simply look into the editor under the Help section.

You can also add special characters by clicking the horseshoe symbol at the top in the editor. You can include symbols such as the tild ≈.

Protection and Creating Pages
To create a new page, there are four methods of creating a new page.

Method 1: Searching

 * 1) Search for a given page which you want to access.


 * 1) When Wikipedia tells you the page does not yet exist, it will prompt you, asking if you'd like to create this page.


 * 1) Click on this red prompt and you'll enter the text editor, allowing you to create the page from the ground up.

Method 2: Access any Red Link

 * 1) Click edit on any accessible page;


 * 1) Surround the page title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., Proposed Title;


 * 1) Click the Show preview button (not the Publish change button);


 * 1) Click on the red link revealed.

Method 3: Save a Red Link
Often you will want to have easy continuing access to a page you create. One way is to save a link at your user page, or sometimes, on your user talk page. Once you save a red link there, and create the page, the link will turn blue and will be accessible anytime you visit it.
 * 1) Go to your user or user talk page (both permanently linked at the top of any Wikipedia page);


 * 1) Surround the page title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., Proposed Title;


 * 1) Click the Publish change button;


 * 1) Click on the red link revealed.

Method 4: Changing a URL
If you click edit on any existing page or page section and then change the title of the page shown in the URL of your browser's address bar to the name of a non-existent page, and then hit return/enter, the resulting page shown will be the same as if you clicked on a red link, allowing you to create a page by the title entered. For example, were you to click edit at the top of this page, you would see this URL in your browser's address bar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:How_to_create_a_page&action=edit

To make a page called "Proposed Title" using it, you would change it to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed Title&action=edit

This section may be referred to elsewhere on Wikipedia at the associated page. The above

Policies associated with Wikipedia's Protection policies (in other words, what you're allowed to editor) can be found [[Wikipedia:Protection policy| here].

Rules for Editing in Wikipedia

 * 1) As a general rule, do not copy and paste text from other sources. Doing so usually constitutes both a copyright violation and plagiarism. This general rule includes copying and pasting material from websites of charity or non-profit organizations, educational, scholarly and news publications, and all sources without a copyright notice. If a work does not have a copyright notice, assume it to be under copyright-protection. Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea. Use of copyrighted text must be in compliance with Non-free content criteria policy. Found here.
 * 2) Use a Talk Page if you want to add a question, comment or concern about a page.
 * 3) Maintain a Neutral Point of View (NPOV). A neutral point of view is written with fairly and proportionately and without editorial bias.
 * 4) Do not include any original research.