Help:Editing

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The Basics

What you type What it looks like Description
I want to be '''bold'''
I want to be bold Bold text
Have you read ''Stand, Columbia'', yet?
Have you read Stand, Columbia, yet? Italic text
it turned out all of the dead hoboes were in [[John Jay Hall]]
...one of the biggest hobo [[Murders|killings]] in John Jay history
it turned out all of the dead hoboes were in John Jay Hall

...one of the biggest hobo killings in John Jay history
Internal link, create a link to another article on WikiCU. If you want the link text to be something other than the article title, add a pipe '|' followed by the desired link text, as in the second example
Reading through the reviews on [http://culpa.info/ culpa]...
Reading through the reviews on culpa... External link, link to a page outside wikicu. Constructed by putting the link URL followed by the text of the link


Advanced formatting

What you type What it looks like Description
<blockquote>Quote text. -Author</blockquote>

Quote text. -Author

Quick 'n easy way of including quotes
{{quotation
|1=Quote text.
|2=Author.
}}

Quote text.

Author.

Fancy way of including quotes
<pre>Code to display.</pre>
Code to display.
Used for displaying the actual code without wikicu interpreting it. For example, on a Help page to show users what code has what effects.

Redirects

Redirects are used to automatically move the user from one page to another. For example, if a user types SEAS, they are first taken to the SEAS article, which instantly redirects them to the article on Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. This allows users to easily find articles without always typing the exact title of the article.

#REDIRECT [[Internal link]]

External References