Difference between revisions of "Help:Contents"

From Adam Lambert Live
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 12: Line 12:
  
 
== Site-specific formatting instructions ==
 
== Site-specific formatting instructions ==
=== Referencing style ===
+
=== Quotations ===
==== Quotations ====
 
 
In the situation that you need to quote a phrase or paragraph from another source, you can reference your text in the following manner:
 
In the situation that you need to quote a phrase or paragraph from another source, you can reference your text in the following manner:
  

Revision as of 09:52, 18 July 2010

Creating new pages

To create an article, you can:

  1. start from scratch by clicking from a intra-site link that is not already linked to an article,
  2. view source code from another article,
  3. or, copy the source code of predefined templates such as these:

General formatting instructions

Formatting wiki content can be a hurdle for the initiated. To help you get started, here's list of links that might be useful:

Site-specific formatting instructions

Quotations

In the situation that you need to quote a phrase or paragraph from another source, you can reference your text in the following manner:

<blockquote>
"The name of Babel, which is in Assyrian 'bab-ilani',
or 'babilu', i.e. the Gate of God, is a Semitic 
translation of the Accadian 'Ka-dingirra-ki'; with 
the same meaning; literally: 'Gate + of God + the 
place'. The etymology of the name Babel from balbel,
'to confound,' which is suggested both in the 
Assyrian account of the story and in Genesis, 
is one of those popular etymologic errors which 
are frequently found in ancient authors."<br />
''—The History of the Devil and the Idea of 
Evil''<ref>Carus, Paul, Dr. ''History of the Devil 
and the Idea of Evil, The'', New York: Gramercy 
Books. ISBN 0-51715-064-6.</ref>
</blockquote>

Which would appear like this:

"The name of Babel, which is in Assyrian 'bab-ilani', or 'babilu', i.e. the Gate of God, is a Semitic translation of the Accadian 'Ka-dingirra-ki'; with the same meaning; literally: 'Gate + of God + the place'. The etymology of the name Babel from balbel, 'to confound,' which is suggested both in the Assyrian account of the story and in Genesis, is one of those popular etymologic errors which are frequently found in ancient authors."
—The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil[1]

The <ref></ref> tags would result in the superscript footnote reference in the text. For footnote references to be viewable, you need to ensure that this <references/> tag is found near the bottom of the article, preferably in a section of its own just above the [[Category:Articles]] link (that should be found in all articles in order for them to be categorised correctly in the Articles TOC).

Redirection

Often, because of variations in character and object names in the games, you may need to redirect the alias links to their intended articles. To do this, you can use either a piped link or a redirect function. The following pages show you how to do it: