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Works anywhere in the text        
Description You type You get
Italics, , bold, and both

''italics'', '''bold''', and '''''both'''''

italics, bold, and both

Link to another page

[[Places]]
[[Places]]andmore

Places
Placesandmore

"Pipe" a link to change the link's text

[[Pokémon List/Charmander|Charmander]]

Charmander

Link to a section

[[Pokémon List/Charmander#Moves]]
[[Pokémon List/Charmander#Moves|Charmander Moves]]

Pokémon List/Charmander#Moves
Charmander Moves

Red link
red links can be good; they show desired pages

[[something missing]]

something missing

Signature
sign your contributions when posting to a talk page

~~~~

do not sign in an article, only on talk-pages

Username (talk) 06:45, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Plain website

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://www.wikipedia.org

Link a website

[http://www.wikipedia.org]

[1]

Link and name a website

[http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]

Wikipedia

Strike your talk page comment
to show you changed your mind

<s>This topic isn't [[WP:N|notable]].</s>

This topic isn't notable.

Hide text somewhere for editors
consensus is how things are decided

<!--This had consensus, discuss at talk page-->

Show an image

[[File:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption]]

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

Works only at the beginning of lines    

Description You type You get
Redirect to another page
redirects must be placed at the start of the first line

#REDIRECT [[Pokémon List/Charmander]]

Redirect arrow without text.svg Pokémon List/Charmander]

Redirect to a section of another page

#REDIRECT [[Pokémon List/Charmander#Moves]]

Redirect arrow without text.svg Pokémon List/Charmander#Moves

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
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
Bulleted list

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three

  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
Indenting text
this is used when replying on a talk page, to make it easier to follow conversations

no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent

no indent (normal)

first indent
second indent
third indent