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{{Forumheader|Help desk}}

==Help pages==
*[[Project:How_to_contribute|How to contribute]]
*[[Project:About|Dos and Don'ts]]
*[[Project:Guidelines|Guidelines]]
*[[Project:Guides|Preformatted page guides]]
*[[Project:Templates|Comprehensive list of templates]]

==Some common templates==
===Inline===
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| width="170" | {{T|clr}} or {{T|clear}} || clears a horizontal space. Use this instead of multiple line breaks.
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|{{T|title}} || changes the displayed title of a page. Does not alter the actual title. Also works on userpage names.
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|{{T|Tt}} or {{T|H:title}} || creates a dotted underline with mouse-over text
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|{{T|outdent}} || creates a line that shows a reply on a talk page was "outdented", meaning the indentation was scaled back.
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|{{T|mlp}} || shortcut for creating links to the FiM wiki. Should always be used with "subst:".
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|{{T|Wikipedialink}} or {{T|Wlink}} || shortcut for creating links to Wikipedia. Should always be used with "subst:".
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|{{T|anchor}} || inserts an [[Wikipedia:HTML element#Anchor|Anchor]], acting as an invisible index entry.
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===Notices===
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| width="170" | {{T|ce}} || general copyediting request
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| width="170" | {{T|in-universe}} || copyediting request for in-universe descriptions
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|{{T|merge}} || notice for merging articles
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|{{T|move}} || notice for moving pages
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|{{T|split}} || notice for long articles in need of splitting
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|{{T|delete}} || mark page for deletion
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|{{T|mature content}} || mandatory notice for works which cover obviously adult-oriented material
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|{{T|ongoing}} || optional notice for articles that cover works which are not complete yet
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===Graphic===
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| width="170" | {{T|R}} || allows resizing of images from external hosts
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==References==
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| width="170" | '''<nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki>''' || wrap these tags around a reference.
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|'''<nowiki><references /></nowiki>''' || put this at the bottom of an article in the references section to list all references
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|{{T|cite}} || make pretty citations. [[Wikipedia:Template:Cite|Documentation]].
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|{{T|cite web}} || the most common form of the above template used on this wiki.
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|'''<nowiki><ref group="note"></ref></nowiki>''' || use in conjunction with '''<nowiki><references group="note" /></nowiki>''' to create a notes section at the bottom of an article.
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==Magic words and XML tags==
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| width="170" | '''<nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki>''' || forces table of contents to load where this is inserted in the source.
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|'''<nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki>''' || removes the table of contents.
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|'''<nowiki>~~~</nowiki>''' || adds your signature without a timestamp.
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|'''<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>''' || adds your signature and a timestamp. Useful on talk pages.
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|'''<nowiki>~~~~~</nowiki>''' || adds a stand alone timestamp.
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|'''<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Article]]</nowiki>''' || creates a redirect page.
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|'''<nowiki>&lt;nowiki&gt;&lt;/nowiki&gt;</nowiki>''' || disable wiki markup between the tags, display "as is"
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|'''<nowiki>----</nowiki>''' || adds a horizontal line ("rule") across the page.
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==Discussion==
Copying over from the FiM wiki; feel free to add anything (I think I've removed everything that doesn't apply to this wiki). -- [[User_talk:Jonny_Manz|This is]] [[User:Jonny_Manz|Jonny Manz]], [[User_blog:Jonny_Manz|signing]] [[Special:Contributions/Jonny_Manz|off!]] 19:50, May 22, 2012 (UTC)
: {{t|t}} doesn't really need to be used by inexperienced editors. --[[User:Tulipclaymore|Tulipclaymore]] 21:29, May 22, 2012 (UTC)