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	If you are starting a new page from scratch, please make use of our '''[[WikiPorno:Article templates\|templates]]''' which helps to organize the information on a page and give a consistent look. See [[WikiPorno:How to start a new page\|how to start a new page]] for more information.		If you are starting a new page from scratch, please make use of our '''[[WikiPorno:Article templates\|templates]]''' which helps to organize the information on a page and give a consistent look. See [[WikiPorno:How to start a new page\|how to start a new page]] for more information.

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	==Starting new pages==		==Starting new pages==
	If you are starting a new page from scratch, please make use of our '''[[WikiPorno:Article templates\|templates]]''' which helps to organize the information on a page and give a consistent look. See [[WikiPorno:How to start a new page]] for more information.		If you are starting a new page from scratch, please make use of our '''[[WikiPorno:Article templates\|templates]]''' which helps to organize the information on a page and give a consistent look. See [[WikiPorno:How to start a new page\|how to start a new page]] for more information.

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New page: '''You''' can edit any article on WikiPorno by clicking the '''edit''' link. You'll get a browser text-entry box with the current contents of the page formatte...

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'''[[WikiPorno:Plunge forward|You]]''' can edit any article on WikiPorno by clicking the '''edit''' link. You'll get a browser text-entry box with the current contents of the page formatted in [[WikiPorno:Wiki markup|Wiki markup]].

You can modify the page ''however you want'', but anything you add ''must'' be compatible with the WikiPorno [[WikiPorno:copyleft|copyleft]]. It helps the rest of us if you follow our [[WikiPorno:policies and guidelines|policies and guidelines]] and [[WikiPorno:manual of style|manual of style]], but don't let that stop you from [[WikiPorno:plunge forward|plunging forward]]. It's more important that you add ''something'' than that you do it ''perfectly''.

==Previewing & saving a page==

To see what your changes will look like, hit the '''Show preview''' button, which ''will not save the page''. Do a preview just before saving the page, to make sure your changes look right. When you're happy with the changes, hit the '''Save page''' button to save the page.

You can cancel your edits by clicking the '''Cancel''' link, and of course '''Editing help''' brings you here.

Beneath the article editing text box is a short field labelled '''Summary'''. This is for putting a short note about what you've done to an article, such as "added Ao Shai To hotel details" or "spelling 'miserible' -> 'miserable'" or "took out obsolete detour directions to Spanish Steps". It can be helpful for people who are looking at the [[WikiPorno:Recent changes help|Recent changes]] or [[WikiPorno:Page history help|Page history]] pages to quickly see what you did.

If you've edited a page but it doesn't seem to have changed you should probably look at [[Special:Recentchanges]], since it is likely that someone has done a rollback of your change, and may have given an informative reason.

==Using the check boxes==

If you are [[Special:userlogin|logged in]] to a [[WikiPorno:How to create a user account|user account]] there will be a '''This is a minor edit''' checkbox for marking your changes as "minor". The idea with this is that people reviewing page history or recent changes can filter out unimportant changes. It's up to you to determine what makes your changes "minor" -- usually, spelling corrections, grammar, or formatting changes are "minor", and changes to the real information on a page are not.

The '''Watch this article''' checkbox puts this article on your [[WikiPorno:Watchlist help|watchlist]]. Any changes to the article, or to the article's talk page, by you or anyone else will show up in your watchlist, so you can keep an eye on the article.

The default setting -- whether these checkboxes are checked or not by default -- can be set in your [[WikiPorno:User preferences help|user preferences]].

==Starting new pages==
If you are starting a new page from scratch, please make use of our '''[[WikiPorno:Article templates|templates]]''' which helps to organize the information on a page and give a consistent look. See [[WikiPorno:How to start a new page]] for more information.