Help:Style Guide

Bold text

 * These words are in "bold" (heavy) text: one, two, three

To make text bold, use three apostrophes (') before and after the word. (An apostrophe is also called a single quote or an inverted comma.)

For example:  = Bold text

Italics

 * These words are in "italics" (slanted): one, two, three

To make text in italics, use two apostrophes (') before and after the word. For example: Italic text = Italic text

Links to other WikiSwire pages
To make a link to another WikiSwire page, put the name of the page inside two square brackets . For example: [[London = London

You can also make different words appear, other than the actual name of the linked ship: The wonderful city of London (this link is also to "London"). To do this, write: The wonderful city of London

Other letters added to the actual link will automatically appear as part of the link, like this: There are three Londons = There are three Londons. Londoners = Londoners.

Links to other pages not on WikiSwire
To make a link to other websites that are not on WikiSwire, write the address inside one square bracket ([), then after a single space, you can write a name for the page, then you have to close the word again with another bracket: ].

For example: Google = Google

Minor (very small) edits (changes)
When you save a page you can also say it is a "minor (small) change". This means a very small change, for example changing one or two words. When you look at Newest changes, you can choose if you want to see all the changes marked m for 'minor', or hide them.

It is not right to make a big change and mark it as a 'minor (small) change'. If this happens, it is best to explain that it was a mistake.

Section headings
To make a big heading, write it in this way:

==Big heading==

To make a smaller heading, write it in this way:

===Smaller heading===

To make an even smaller heading, write it in this way:

====Even smaller heading====

When you make four or more headings, WikiSwire automatically makes a table of contents - a list of all the headings - at the start of the page. You do not need to make the table, you only need to make the headings. Do not start the page by writing a heading. Write some general information first.

Lists
This is a list:
 * Dogs
 * Cats
 * Birds

To make a list, write it in this way: * Dogs * Cats * Birds

You can make lists in other lists:
 * Dogs
 * big dogs
 * german shepherds
 * small dogs
 * poodles

Write different lists in this way: * Dogs ** big dogs *** german shepherds ** small dogs *** poodles

Making a space at the start of a line
You can also make a space at the start of a line, like this:

Dogs
 * big dogs
 * small dogs

Cats

You can make a space in this way:



If you write more colons there will be more spaces, like this:

Hi!
 * Hi!
 * Hi!
 * Hi!
 * Hi!
 * Hi!

Hi!

Putting text in the centre of the page
This text is in the centre.

You can put text in the centre in this way:

This is in the centre

The code must use the American spelling (center) and not the British (centre), or it will not work.

Making a line across the page
Here is a line going across the page:

You can make a line with four hyphens (dashes), in this way: