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Summary:

 * Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard... suggest the "New Scientist" as a style example).
 * ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
 * If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
 * Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
 * Eschew argot, jargon, technicality and cant.

Formatting:
How Users Read on the Web


 * See Help:Editing

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For example,  Gives you an image on the right, where the caption is a wiki-link.

To have an image deleted, edit its description page and put (but of course you would insert the name of the FOO.jpg image. Everything to the right of the | is comment.  )

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 * 1) REDIRECT NAME OF REDIRECT TARGET

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X may also refer to:
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