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[edit] Please add <nowiki>
I don't use <nowiki> often enough to remember how to use it and have spent about 20 minutes trying to find some reminder. I think that
- nowiki should be added to this table and
- this table should link in a much more prominent way to other pages, especially the Manual of Style. I'm sure it ooes link there, but I've got 5 years of experience on Wikipedia and spend probably 20+ hours each week using and editing Wikipedia, and no link jumped out at me. If I missed it, other busier (or less curious) people won't see it either.
I could add nowiki myself but am reluctant to mess with this page since the formatting is a bit beyond my comfort zone. Interlingua 15:59, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
- I'm not sure it's high use enough that it should be added, but I'm not really here about that. I just wanted to solve your problem with remembering the tags. You don't need to. All you need to remember is that the tags are provided automatically using one of the normal editing buttons appearing right above the edit screen. It looks like this:
. Highlight any text, click that button and voilà, nowiki tags. By the way, it's also redundantly provided somewhere else. In edit mode look below your edit screen; just after where it says "Do not copy text from other websites...", you see the little box with the arrow next to it which has "insert" inside it? Click on the menu arrow and change to "wiki markup". Nowiki Tags are provided in there. There's quite a lot of other useful stuff in the other menu categories, such as fractions in the symbols menu and so on.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:10, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Anchors
Please note that I have added anchors to every separate secton in the list. This means that you can refer a new user to a specific section by providing a link such as Wikipedia:Cheatsheet#Bulleted list. All of the anchors use the same capitalization and format as the linked names of the section so the string at the end (i.e what you would paste after # in the link) can always be simply highlighted and copied.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
- nice.
--Ludwigs2 18:24, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Level "0" headers
I think that this edit should remain. Here's a quick rationale to why I added the "Level 0 headers" with the strikeout through them: new users may feel tempted to use them on a page, but this shows that even though it's technically possible, it is not in common usage on this wiki. LobStoR (talk) 02:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
- As I said in the edit summary, this page is for the most high-use formatting uses. There are tons of normative things we could say, many of them far more common formatting mistakes than your proposed edit (in fact I've never seen this particular mistake crop up, which doesn't meen it doesn't happen, but it's certaimly not common). For example, we are constantly seeing html in articles. If we are to include normative prescription material in this page, we would be far better warning against using html in place of wikimarkup than warning against this uncommon mistake. But providing such prescriptive advice does not balance with the purpose of this page. Almost every section could get it's own raft of prescriptions, but what we're here about is a cheatsheet for showing (and reminding) people of how to do the most common wiki formatting.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
