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BACON WORKS ANYWHERE IN THE TEXT

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| style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" width="30%" | Description | style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" | You type | style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" width="30%" | You get |- |Italics, bold, and both | ''italics'', '''bold''', and '''''both''''' | italics, bold, and both |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Link to another page | [[football]]
[[football]]ers | football
footballers |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- | "Pipe" a link to change the link's text | [[Android (operating system)|Android]] | Android |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- | Link to a section | [[Frog#Jumping]]
[[Frog#Jumping|the jumping of frogs]] | Frog#Jumping
the jumping of frogs |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Red link

red links in articles help by showing desired redirects or notable pages

| [[something missing]] | something missing |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |References and footnotes

sources in the article will appear where {{reflist}} is put, typically under a level 2 section heading (see below) towards the bottom of the page; text between {{}} is for a template

| Hello,<ref>Library of Congress</ref> World.<ref>http://www.w3.org/</ref>

References: {{reflist}}

| Hello, World.

References:

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do not sign in an article, only on talk pages | Username (talk) 01:53, 30 July 2025 (UTC) |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Plain website | http://www.wikipedia.org | http://www.wikipedia.org |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Link a website | [http://www.wikipedia.org] | [1] |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Link and name a website | [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] | Wikipedia |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Strike your talk page comment

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consensus is how things are decided

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|- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Template:Citation needed

one of many cleanup templates

| Hello, World.{{cn}} | Hello, World. |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Add a page to a category |[[Category:Category name]]

place near the bottom of a page |shows "Category name" in a bar at bottom when the page is previewed or saved

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Works only at the beginning of lines    

|- style="background:#E6F2FF; padding:0.3em; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" width="30%" | Description | style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" | You type | style="border-bottom:2px #a3b1bf solid" width="30%" | You get |- |Redirect to another page

redirects must be placed at the start of the first line

| #REDIRECT [[Target page]] | Target page |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Redirect to a section of another page | #REDIRECT [[Target page#anchorName]] | Target page#anchorName |- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Section headings

a Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article

| ==Level 2==
===Level 3===
====Level 4====
=====Level 5=====
======Level 6======

do not use  =Level 1=  as it is for page titles |

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

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|Nonindexed headers

left out of Table of Contents

| ; Header name

has a leading semicolon ";" in front

| Header name

will not appear in Table of Contents

|- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Bulleted list | * One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three |

• One
• Two
  • Two point one
• Three

|- |colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"| |- |Numbered list | # One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three |

1. One
2. Two
   1. Two point one
3. Three

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this is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations

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