User:Mindbuilder

I have no relation to mindbuilder.com. I only noticed that they existed some time after I started using this name.

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The following are just my notes on wikipedia syntax

To create a line break use enter twice Link to another wikipedia article Siphon Disambiguate the link Siphon (Insect anatomy) Visible text different than link text Cool article on Siphons Show unit conversion 17 ft Numerical Value with thousands spaces and optionally with units $123.456$ or $123.456 grams$ $123.456 grams$ //units linked $123.456 m$ //units and units per  e.g.  m/s Pi symbol π $\pi$ Degree symbol ° Approximately equal symbol ≈ Exactly equal symbol ≡ Preformatted text Cant show it here. See source or just pre in standard html start stop slash angle bracket tags. Suppress Wiki markup Cant show it here. See source or just nowiki in standard html start stop slash angle bracket tags. Indent with one or multiple colons : Outdent when indentation gets to much Link to another section of the same article by starting with a hash. Use a display string after a bar to prevent the hash symbol from showing. The link is to a section with a section title. It may be possible to link to an anchor or something. or Pretty text to be displayed here

Insert an image in talk page. This works for Wikimedia Commons as well. Upload to Commons is quick and simple with javascript disabled.

Insert a video in an article (thumbtime is the time from where the still picture is taken, by default the middle of the vid)

Reference then for repeat reference to same. can make a reference show up in the talk page at the desired location with can insert a plain simple reference while in WYSIWYG mode by clicking cite then basic

Comments within source of wiki page

Link to Wikipedia policy pages WP:OR  or   WP:BLP   etc.

Italics: two apostrophes on each side Bold: three apostrophes on each side Bold and italic: five apostrophes on each side

Signing - you can copy the time/date/IP from the history page to sign a post with TimeDateIPAddressStringHere five tildes gives date without username

Quote in Green only in talk pages - it doesn't seem to indent QuoteTextHere