Humane Earth:Editing guide

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Adding to Humane Earth is easy. Just click "edit this page" at the top of most pages. Then type. When you are done, click "Save page".

This guide shows how to do basic formatting (such as bold and italics) and links. To learn more about adding to Humane Earth, read How can I help?

Easy editing

What you type How it looks
To make words italic, put 2 apostrophes ''before and after''. To make words italic, put 2 apostrophes before and after.
To make words bold, put 3 apostrophes '''before and after'''. To make words bold, put 3 apostrophes before and after.
==Put 2 equal signs around a section heading==

Put 2 equal signs around a section heading

===Put 3 equal signs around a sub-heading===

Put 3 equal signs around a sub-heading

# Start lines with
## one or more number signs
## to make numbered lists.
  1. Start lines with
    1. one or more number signs
    2. to make numbered lists.
* Start lines with
** one or more asterisks
** to make bulleted lists.
  • Start lines with
    • one or more asterisks
    • to make bulleted lists.
To make a link, put 2 brackets [[before and after]]. To make a link, put 2 brackets before and after.

Other links

Linking to other websites

Because of the large amount of spam on this site and the few users helping to undo vandalism, I have decided, for the present, to block users from adding any links to other websites.

I am sorry and hope to change this setting in the future.

More kinds of links

You also can read about redirecting links and linking to categories and subpages.

Advanced formatting

To learn about other formatting, read the advanced editing guide.

Practice

You can practice editing in the sandbox. (To open in a new window, Windows users right click, Mac users press "ctrl" and click.)

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