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'''Where should questions about Email <email>wiki@wso.williams.edu</email> to contact the [[Willipedia be directed?'''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.

To add Important: before creating a new page, you must first link it from another page. The first thing to do is to should search the wiki for the term you want to be the title of your page; if it already exists, you can put double square brackets around the word, and then click Save, etc. as explained below. In general, go there's no need to an existing page that is related to the page you want to addrecreate it. Put in something about the page you want (Be sure to add, including the exact title of the page you want to create. Put that title in double square brackets. Click Save page at the bottom, and then you will see check for the text of your same title in red on the preexisting page. Click on that, and edit awaywith different capitalization; now this should happen automatically when you have your new pagesearch.)

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 possibleimpossible. 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>.  '''How do I upload a file?''' Log in, and then go to the [[Special:Upload|file uploading page]]. (This page can be accessed by clicking on "Special pages" at the top right of any Willipedia page, and then selecting "Upload file.") ==Formatting questions== ''For a more exhaustive list, see [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/Help:Editing Editing help].'' '''I left lines between paragraphs of text, but my text is showing up as one big block. How do I fix it?''' To create a division between paragraphs skip a line (two carriage returns) in the edit box. To indent text, preface each paragraph (or each line, in a poem) with a colon. ''':Hi.''' produces:Hi. '''How do I make something bold or italicized?''' Italicized text has two single quotes (<code>'</code>) on either side of it, <code><nowiki>''like this''</nowiki></code>. Bold text has three quotes 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.