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Alternatively, you may create a new page by entering the title of the page you would like to create into the search box on the left sidebar. If the page does not already exist, you should see the words:
 
Alternatively, you may create a new page by entering the title of the page you would like to create into the search box on the left sidebar. If the page does not already exist, you should see the words:
 
:'''There is no page titled "(your page name)".''' You can [[Do not create|create this page]].
 
:'''There is no page titled "(your page name)".''' You can [[Do not create|create this page]].
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Click on "create this page" and you can begin editing that page.
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Don't worry if you accidentally click on a red link -- the new page is not created until you save your edit.
  
 
== Categories ==
 
== Categories ==

Revision as of 21:12, 22 April 2008

For more information on MediaWiki formatting, see Wikipedia's editing instructions.

Creating a new page

Sometimes you'll be reading an article and you'll see a red link. Red links go to pages that have not been created. Click on the link and you can begin editing that page.

Alternatively, you may create a new page by entering the title of the page you would like to create into the search box on the left sidebar. If the page does not already exist, you should see the words:

There is no page titled "(your page name)". You can create this page.

Click on "create this page" and you can begin editing that page.

Don't worry if you accidentally click on a red link -- the new page is not created until you save your edit.

Categories

To add a page to a given category, edit that page to add a category tag, which is entered as follows:

[[Category:(name of category)]]

Stubs

Pages that don't have enough content are called stubs. (You may create a stub, for example, because you think there should be a page on a given topic but you can't immediately write a full article on it.) Add "{{Stub}}" to a stub to make sure it gets categorized as a stub so that other editors can find it and add more information to it.

This page is a stub. You can help by expanding it!