User:Flopzee

links

 * internal links
 * •  London  yields:  London
 * •  index of Help!  yields:  [WP:Help|index of Help!]]
 * • underscores & initial cap not required, but it's otherwise case-sensitive:
 * [[dim sum]] yields the same as [[Dim_sum]] but not  [[DIM_SUM]]


 * external links
 * •   yields:
 * •  home page  yields:  home page
 * • soft spaces inside brackets don't show up except between words
 * • hard spaces inside brackets may cause words to vanish!


 * anchors
 * • link to any internal anchor-name using #, as in
 *  User:Flopzee , which you should try now!—>   User:Flopzee
 * • header & subheader titles are automatically anchor-names
 * Rabbits §§ 8.7.4 ("Fictional Ones" > "Potter" > "Imitators") could be
 *  Flopzee 
 * • html tags can have anchors inserted in them
 * with links written  health benefits 
 * with links written  health benefits 


 * formatting links
 * • html tags (  ,    ,    , etc) only work in the "name" section inside brackets.
 * • Wiki  '  works inside or  outside brackets.

other code

 * code-as-content


 * hide comments to other editors


 * forbid a Table of Contents on the page
 *    ...or force it with   


 * hard space
 * · ALT +0160
 * ·does NOT survive cut-&-paste in the editing box
 * ·apparently works        in strings
 * ·width:  2 HS = 1 digit;  HS is wider than soft-space


 * bulleted outline or list
 * begin code with a star "*"
 * subcategories begin with 2 stars "**";  etc


 * indent text
 * • begin the line of code with a colon ":"
 * • 2 colons indent twice as far
 * • in the same line of code, a    keeps the next line of text indented  in the same paragraph, BUT...
 * • anywhere after a ¶ in colon(:)-indented or star(*)-indented code, a    re-sets the following text to the left margin.


 * hanging subheads (like this whole section)
 * • begin the line of code with a semicolon ";"
 * • a new indented line of begins with return-colon "¶:" in the code
 * • subheaded bold automatically (no choice)

style
"Clarity, content, and an NPOV are more important than format. Writers are not required to follow MoS rules." –Wiki MoS (edited)

• citation styles
 * "It's more important to have clarity and consistency in an article's citations than to use this or that system." –cite guide (edited)
 * • examples?

• Italic text followed normal text looks better in many fonts using hard space + space. Compare:
 * brick wall
 * brick  wall

content
The distinction for Wiki is "verifiability, not truth." –WP:Verifiability

What is that screwy half-box up there?? I can't even find it in the html.

guidance
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