Help:Formatting

You can format your text using wiki markup. Wiki markup consists of characters like asterisks (*), single quotes (') or brackets ([) which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''

Wiki Markup Basics

Fanlore Cheatsheet For more information on formatting, see Help:Formatting.
Description	You type	You get
Italicise text	''italic''	italic
Bold text	'''bold'''	bold
Bold and italic	'''''bold & italic'''''	bold & italic
Escape wiki markup	<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>	no ''markup''
Indent text	:Indent text	Indent text
Horizontal rule	----
Internal link (within Fanlore)	[[Name of page]] [[Name of page|Text to display]]	Name of page Text to display
External link (to other websites)	[http://www.example.org Text to display] [http://www.example.org] http://www.example.org	Text to display [1] http://www.example.org
Redirect to another page	#REDIRECT [[Target page]]	Target page
Footnotes/References Numbering is generated automatically.	To create a footnote or reference, use this format: Article text.<ref name=test>[http://www.example.org Link text], additional text.</ref>	Article text.
	To reuse the same note, reuse the name with a trailing slash: Article text.<ref name=test/>
	To display notes, add this lines to the References section <references/>
Headings A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.	== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ======	Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
Bulleted Lists Empty lines between list items discouraged (see numbered lists).	* One * Two ** Two point one * Three	One Two Two point one Three
Numbered Lists Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.	# One # Two ## Two point one # Three	One Two Two point one Three
Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists	# one # two #* two point one #* two point two	one two two point one two point two
Definition list	;Definition :item 1 :item 2	Definition item 1 item 2
Preformatted text	preformatted text is done with   a space at the   beginning of the line	preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line
Thumbnail image	[[Image:Example.jpg|thumb|Caption text]]	Caption text
Categorizing a page	[[Category:Help]]	See bottom of page.
For Talk Pages
Signature	~~~~	Your username 20:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Indenting Text	no indent (normal) :first indent ::second indent :::third indent	no indent (normal) first indent second indent third indent

Paragraphs

MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a new line with the HTML tags <br> or <br/>.

Indented Text and Long Quotations

There are several ways to indent text on the wiki:

• Put a colon (:) in front of a paragraph.
• Use the HTML tag <blockquote>.
• Use the quote template. The template indents the text and puts a blue border around it.
• Lists are also indented (like this one). Put * or # in front of each block of text you want to be a separate item in the list. Use * for a list with bullets (like this one). Use # for a numbered list.

HTML

Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki. Examples: <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.

Other Formatting

Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references:

• Links
• Images
• Tables
• More Formatting from Wikipedia