Help talk:Editing

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This page sucks!

I dislike pages that only have the purpose of redirecting a user to another page. Obviously, big lists of links are excusable, but if there's only a couple of links, they might as well have gone on the page that linked to it.

So here's my proposal: Move everything on the Posting Conventions page to this page, clean that content up a bit, and give a link to the sandbox and the MediaWiki editing help near the top.

The stuff in the Posting Conventions isn't all useful either. Don't give lectures about specific markup features; say that as a Wiki, we use a different set of markup symbols and that you must use them. Then give another link to the MediaWiki editing help.

Another thing I'd like to see is a list of features available to the user. For instance, syntax highlighting, math, various templates, etc. I pretty sure most people don't know about these things.

That edit was me.

Yeah, forgot to login...

Anyway, I've started this page off. I updated the posting conventions a bit, and started a list of our special features, but I don't know much about the math stuff, and I didn't feel like writing about the templates right now. :P (It's 3AM, and I can't sleep.) Also, if there are more features that I missed, they should be added to the list. --Dial-Up 02:57, 11 October 2006 (EDT)

Very awesome start, Dial-Up. Thanks a ton! You're right, the page did suck :) --Ryan Clark 03:01, 11 October 2006 (EDT)

I forgot, we also have the posting conventions page, which now seems to overlap this somewhat. Do you think we should merge the two? --Ryan Clark 03:05, 11 October 2006 (EDT)

I actually copied the Posting Conventions page and changed it a bit. I found it annoying that there was a link to it rather than the content being immediately available. --Dial-Up 03:20, 11 October 2006 (EDT)