Help:Quick guide to editing

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[edit] Editing How-To, the quick and dirty version

Use the buttons at the top of the editing screen! If that's too easy for you, use the tips below.

[edit] How-To create links

Internal Links

You can link to other pages within Sunshine Review (for example, the Main Page) by placing double brackets around the name: ([[ ]]). Be sure to copy the page name exactly--it is case sensitive.

If you don't know where square brackets are on your keyboard, look at the two keys to the immediate right of the "P" key. That's where the square bracket keys can be found on most modern keyboards.

Tip: If you would like your text to appear different than the title of a Sunshine Review page just add a |symbol (which is under the backspace button on most computers).

• For example:[[Alaska|the great state]]

• Which will appear as this on the finished article: the great state

External Links

To link to a webpage outside of Sunshine Review, you can just type out the URL: http://www.google.com

or you can make it look nicer by attaching the URL to a linkable word. To do that, surround the URL with single brackets ([ ]), use a space, and type the word(s) you want to show as the link: Google Search

Don't worry about the little arrow that will pop up after your external links--that's just to differentiate them from internal links.

[edit] How-To format your text

To use italics, surround the text with double apostrophes.

For bold text, use triple apostrophes.

If you want to super emphasize what you are writing, surround the text with five apostrophes.

If you are already comfortable with <tags>, those will work as well.

Italic, Bold, Boldly italicized!

In wiki form: <i>Italic</i>, <b>Bold</b>, <i><b>Boldly italicized!</b></i>

You can strike out deleted text, or underline an important point.

In wiki form: You can <strike>strike out deleted text</strike>, or <u>underline an important point</u>.

To divide your page, you can use a horizontal line by using <tags>:

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or by typing horizontal dashes:

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A new line will not start a new paragraph, however, leaving a blank line will.

(Click "edit" and look at this section to get a better idea of what that means.)

To put text in a box like this, simply put a space at the beginning of the line.

[edit] How-To use bullet points and numbered lists

• bullets are created by using asterisks (*)
  • by doubling
    • or tripling the asterisks up you can deepen your lists

You can also itemize with numbered lists:

1. numbered lists are created by using the pound (#) sign
2. at the beginning of each line

[edit] How-To create sections

Wiki pages can be subdivided into sections by using headers. To create a header, put double equal signs (==) around the section title. To create a sub-section, use three equal signs (===), and so on.

Once you have a certain amount of section headers, Sunshine Review will automatically create a Table of Contents for you at the top of the page. Helpful, huh?

[edit] References

Many articles include references to scholarly articles and books and reports, in the course of a passage of prose. The way to cite on Sunshine Review might as well be the way to cite in scholarly articles: with footnotes.

And it is very easy to do. After the passage needing a reference, add this language (without the extra line breaks within the tags, included here only for formatting purposes):

<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=I3mal2inJQgC&dq=
lomasky+democracy+and+decision&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=
lsqIY4Moic&sig=lrtppVyjbakW5v_Ky97pEkq6ZIc#PPP1,M1 Democracy and 
Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference]'', Geoffrey 
Brennan and Loren Lomasky, Cambridge University Press, 1995</ref>

and then, at the bottom of the page, add this:

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

In this way, a discussion will look like this:

It appears that voters do, for the most part, vote their conscience, 

as philosopher Lomasky, and economists Brennan^[1] and Caplan^[2], have demonstrated.

[edit] Anything else?

Is there an editing question you would like to see addressed here? Click on the "discussion" tab at the top of the page, and let us know. Or add it yourself! That is the fun of wikis after all :)

Acknowledgment: the content of this help page in Sunshine Review has been adapted from Wikipedia and Ballotpedia

[edit] Note (example)