Help:How to (wiki)

This page is a help or manual page for the ISFDB database. It describes standards or methods for entering or maintaining data in the ISFDB database, or otherwise working with the database. Other help pages may be found via the category below. To discuss what should go on this page, use the talk page. If, after exploring the Help system, you still have a question, please visit the Help desk and let us know. We probably know the answer, but we need your help to know what we left out of the help pages. If you are new to editing the ISFDB, please see Help:Getting Started. For more on this and other header templates, see Header templates.

Explanations of how to do some common tasks within the ISFDB Wiki. For performing tasks within ISFDB database, go here.

Basic user tools and information

• Contents and purposes of the ISFDB Wiki
• Logging in
• Preferences
• Talk pages
• User contributions
• Wikitext (examples)

Basic editing

• Categories - What they are and how to use them.
• Conventions and Customs of the ISFDB Wiki
• Editing
  • Edit conflicts
  • Edit previews
  • Edit summaries - What they are and how to use them.
    • Edit summary legend
  • Editing FAQ
  • Minor edits
  • Piped links
• Linking
• Linking templates
• Lists
  • Numbered lists
• Section headers
• Starting a new page

Advanced editing

• Archiving
• Deleting pages and images
• Diffs - What they are and how to use them.
• Dummy edits
• Namespaces - What they are and how to use them.
• Page history
• Recent changes
• Redirects
• Related changes
• Renaming/Moving a page
• Reverting edits
• Splitting/Moving a wiki discussion
• Substitution
• Templates (List)
  • Header templates
  • Template documentation

Finding things on the wiki

• Searching
• What links here

Moderators

• Protecting pages
• System messages