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Willipedia:FAQ

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'''How do I ask questions about Willipediathat aren't listed here?'''
Email <email>wiki@wso.williams.edu</email> to contact the [[Willipedia board]], which will answer your question promptly and may place it here. Alternately, you may add your question to this page if you think seeing the answer is in the interest of the public, and the board or another user may answer it.
'''How do I add a page?'''
To add a page, you must first create a link to it from another page. The first thing Edit the page which will link to do is to search your new page, and put in something about the wiki for the term page you want to be the add, including its exact title of your page; if it already exists, you can put enclosed in double square brackets around the word, and then click <code><nowiki>[[like this]]</nowiki></code>. Click "Save page " at the bottom, and then you will see a link to your new page included on the text of your title in existing page. This link will be red on , since the preexisting new pagedoes not yet exist. Click Clicking on that, and edit away; now it will allow you have to create your new page.  In general, go to an existing before creating a new page that is related to , you should search the wiki for the page term you want to add. Put in something about be the title of your page you want ; if it already exists, there's no need to recreate it. You can simply make a link to add, including it by putting the exact title name of the page you want to create, and put that in double square brackets. Then do as above. 
'''How do I delete a page?'''
You don't. You can edit a page, you can even delete all the text on a page, but general normal users cannot actually delete a page because . The reason for this restriction is that deleting a page removes all of that pages page's edit history, which makes reversion or further improvement of that page impossible. Where possible, we you should try to improve pages rather than annihilate them in this way. Currently, only members of the [[Wiki_board|Willipedia board]] have the power to delete, and use it sparingly. If you think a page should be deleted, you can delete all the text on the page and put the word delete within two sets of curly brackets, like this: <code><nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki></code>
==Formatting questions==
'''How do I make something bold or italicized?'''
Italicized text has two single quotes (<code>'</code>) around on either side of it, <code><nowiki>''like this''</nowiki></code>. Bold text has threequotes on each side.
'''How do I offset a block of text, like a long quotation from another source?'''
At the beginning of the text block, put <code><nowiki><blockquote></nowiki></code>. At the end, put <code><nowiki></blockquote></nowiki></code>. If the text block has multiple paragraphs, do this for each paragraph, or use colons as described above.
'''What if I want to format something and the answer isn't here?'''
Go to a page that has the formatting you want, click on "Edit page," and see how it works there. Then click "back" so you don't change anything about the page. If you think many people would like to know the answer, add it to this section.
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