Help:Editing

Creating a page
A red link such as Help:Non-existent page indicates that the page does not exist. Clicking on it will bring you to a page where the first version of it can be written and saved.

A second option to create a new page is to type the full name of the page you wish to create into the Search box. This will bring you to a page that says There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page. with links to the search page, or the edit page where you can then write and save the page.

Another way to create a new page is to navigate to the URL directly. For example, typing out  http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Help:Non-existent page  onto the browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will achieve the same effect as clicking on the red link above.

Creating a subpage
To create a subpage of another page, use any of the 3 options above to create the page with the following naming:   using the forward slash (/) to indicate the separation between the original page, and the subpage.

Editing syntax
{| style="border:1px solid #A3B1BF; text-align:left; background:#f5faff"  italic  italic  bold  bold  bold & italic  bold & italic
 * width="25%" style="background: #cee0f2; padding: 0.3em; text-align:center;"|Description
 * style="background: #cee0f2; padding: 0.3em; text-align:center;"|You type
 * width="25%" style="background: #cee0f2; padding: 0.3em; text-align:center;"|You get
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; padding: 0.2em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies anywhere
 * Italicise text
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; padding: 0.2em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies anywhere
 * Italicise text
 * Italicise text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Internal link
 * Internal link
 * Internal link

(within Guild Wars Wiki)  name of page 

 display text 

name of page

display text

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 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Internal link to image
 * Internal link to image
 * Internal link to image
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Internal link to category
 * Internal link to category
 * Internal link to category
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Redirect to another page
 * Redirect to another page
 * Redirect to another page
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * External link
 * External link
 * External link

(to other websites)  </tt>

 display text </tt>

 http://www.example.org </tt> 

display text

http://www.example.org Sign your posts
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|

on talk pages ~ Your username ,

27 August 2024 (UTC)
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; padding: 0.2em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings
 * Headings
 * Headings

A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.  = Level 1 = </tt>

 == Level 2 == </tt>

 === Level 3 === </tt>

 ==== Level 4 ==== </tt>

 ===== Level 5 ===== </tt>

 ====== Level 6 ====== </tt>

= Level 1 =

Level 6
: First paragraph.</tt>
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Indented lines and paragraphs
 * Indented lines and paragraphs
 * Indented lines and paragraphs

:: Second paragraph.</tt>

::: Third paragraph. </tt>


 * First paragraph.
 * Second paragraph.
 * Third paragraph.
 * Third paragraph.

* one</tt>
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list

* two</tt>

** two point one</tt>

<tt>* three</tt> <tt># one</tt>
 * one
 * two
 * two point one
 * three
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Numbered list
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list

<tt># two</tt>

<tt>## two point one</tt>

<tt># three</tt>
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) two point one
 * 4) three
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Image
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Image
 * Image
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Thumbnail image
 * Thumbnail image
 * Thumbnail image
 * }

Moving a page
You can rename a page by moving it to another more appropriate name. The "Move" link at the top of the page allows you to move it. You must be logged in to be able to see the "Move" link. You cannot move a page to a name that already exists.

After successfully moving a page, the old name will contain a redirect to the new name, allowing all the old links to continue to work properly. It is not necessary to purposely change all existing links to the old name to the new name, unless the old name was misleading.

Before saving changes
Once you've edited in your changes, before actually saving them, make use of the "Show preview" button to preview how your changes would look like after you saved. Avoid saving too often or saving just to see what it looks like. Each page save will generate an entry in recent changes. Repeated trivial and unnecessary saves tend to clutter up that list and inconvenience users who make use of that list to watch for vandals or misinformed edits.