XDA-Developers:Editing guide

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Contents 1 Style and formatting 2 Editing 3 Advanced editing 4 Personal customization 5 Mediawiki

This page is a style and formatting guideline on XDA-Developers. It has general acceptance among editors and is considered a standard to which articles should adhere. However, it is not set in stone and should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception. Shortcut: XDA:Edit

Style and formatting

Welcome to the XDA-Developers editing guide! You may use this guide as a reference to the MediaWiki syntax.

The guides for editing the various page types on this wiki are located on the right hand side of this page. Please use them to ensure pages are kept consistent and professional looking. If you think that the guides need updating, feel free to add to them. If you are planning major changes, it would be wise to discuss the changes first on their talk pages.

Editing

• Editing pages
• Starting a new page
• Formatting
• Links
• User pages
• Talk pages
• Signatures

Advanced editing

• Images
• Tables
• Categories
• Subpages
• Managing files
• Moving (renaming) a page
• Redirects
• Deleting a page
• Protected pages
• Templates
• Variables
• External searches

Personal customization

• Preferences

Mediawiki

Complete manual for the MediaWiki syntax available here.