Help:Editing
To edit a page, click "Edit" near the top of the page. When you are finished, click "Show Preview" to preview your changes. If you are satisfied, enter a summary of your changes in the "Summary:" box and click "Save Page".
If your edit was a minor correction, such as a grammar, spelling, or minor formatting change, you may tick the "This is a minor edit" box. Minor edits can be excluded on the Recent changes page, making it easier for other editors to review major changes. Ticking the "Watch this page" box adds the page to your Watchlist, which allows you to track changes to particular pages.
Formatting
Text Formatting
To format text, you can use either html or Wiki markup. Wiki markup is generally preferable because it makes pages easier to read when editing. Some basic formatting:
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| Italicize | ''Hiro'' | Hiro |
| Bold | '''Hiro''' | Hiro |
| Bold & Italicize | '''''Hiro''''' | Hiro |
Most other formatting, such as underlines, strikethrus, superscripts, subscripts, etc. should use HTML. For more help on using HTML in wikitext, see Wikipedia Help:HTML in Wikitext.
Section Headings
Section headings divide the page into sections. They provide links to edit a particular section, automatically produce a table of contents when necessary, and make the page easier to read. To add a section heading, surround the heading text with two equals signs on either side. For each level of subsection heading, add an additional equals sign to either side. For example, the heading of this section, a second-level section, was produced by typing ===Section Headings===.
Miscellaneous Formatting
You can add a horizontal line by entering four dashes. You can add lists by using a pound sign (for numbered lists) or an asterisk (for bulleted lists).
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* Hiro |
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# Hiro |
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For more help with formatting, see Wikipedia Help:Editing.
Tables
You can add tables using either HTML or Wiki markup. Begin the table with {|. Begin each row with |-. Begin each heading cell with ! and each normal cell with |. Close the table with |}. You can apply formatting to tables, rows, and cells just as you would with HTML. For cells, be sure to separate the content of the cell from the formatting with an additional pipe.
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For more help with tables, see Wikipedia Help:Table.
Links
A good article should include plenty of links to allow navigation between articles and to provide supplemental information. There are two main kinds of links: internal links, which are links to other pages on Heroes Wiki, and external links, which are links to other sites on the Web.
Internal Links
To add an internal link, simply put the name of the article to which you wish to link in double brackets:
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| [[Hiro]] | Hiro |
When linking to an article, the capitalization of the first letter is ignored. [[powers]] will link to "Powers". Other capitalization must match the article exactly. For example, [[Mr. bennet]] does not link to "Mr. Bennet".
Blended Links
Link text will automatically blend with text that is consecutively either after it. This means that redirects are not needed for plurals, some alternate conjugations, and such. To add a blended link, simply place double brackets around the portion of the term which is an article title.
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| [[The tape]]s | The tapes |
Piping a Link
You can alter the link text that is displayed from the name of the linked article by piping alternate text within the brackets. Type the correct name of the article first, then a pipe (|) character, then the text you wish to display.
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| [[Hiro|Ando's friend]] | Ando's friend |
Be careful when piping that the text remains descriptive of the link to avoid making link navigation confusing for the reader. As a general rule, the piped text should always describe the subject of the article in the context in which it is used. For example, saying "Niki sees [[Jessica|her alter ego]] in the mirror" in a context where Niki (or the viewer) does not know her alter ego is named Jessica is appropriate. Saying "Hiro is a [[Star Trek|big geek]]" is not appropriate because the piped text, "big geek", does not describe the article "Star Trek". It would be clearer for the reader to say "Hiro is a big geek, and a huge fan of Star Trek". That way, they have a better idea of where the link will take them.
Linking across Namespaces
You can link to articles in other namespaces just as you would normal articles. Simply include the namespace, a colon, and the article title. You can automatically remove the namespace from the displayed link by adding a pipe but no pipe text. You can also pipe and blend as normal.
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| [[Episode:Genesis]] | Episode:Genesis |
| [[Episode:Genesis|]] | Genesis |
| [[Episode:Genesis|the first episode]] | the first episode |
| a [[Episode:Genesis|]]like cliffhanger | a Genesislike cliffhanger |
If the namespace is one that would normally have special reflexes (like images or categories, you can convert it to a link by preceeding the namespace with a colon:
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| [[Image:Algorithm_sm.jpg]] | 
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| [[:Image:Algorithm_sm.jpg]] | Image:Algorithm_sm.jpg |
| [[:Category:Evolved Humans|]] | Evolved Humans |
Linking to a Section
You can link to a specific section heading in an article. Section headings create HTML anchors, and can be linked to just like in HTML: add a pound sign to the end of the article name, and then add the name of the section.
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| [[Powers#Phasing]] | Powers#Phasing |
| [[Powers#Phasing|D.L.'s powers]] | D.L.'s powers |
External Links
Adding an external link is similar to adding an internal link, with two important difference. First, the link is surrounded by single, not double, braces. Second, the url is separated from the link text by a space, not a pipe. If no link text is entered, the link will be numbered. The numbers assigned to unlabeled external links will increment automatically throughout the page.
You can also add a link as raw text and it will appear as it is
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| [http://www.9thwonders.com | [1] |
| [http://www.9thwonders.com 9th Wonders | 9th Wonders |
| http://www.9thwonders.com | http://www.9thwonders.com |
You can also use the <ref> tag to create an external link as a part of a list of references. All links placed between <ref> tags will appear as footnotes, and the links will be grouped together and displayed wherever the <references /> tag is placed in the article. For more help with footnotes, see Wikipedia Help:Footnotes.