Help:QuickStart

Above all else, I just want this to be a fun and useful experience for people. Mediawiki is really pretty easy to get the hang of. Here are some style and formatting tips:

Style

 * 1) All bands, individuals, albums, etc should be linked at least the first time they appear on a page.
 * 2) * Links are created by surrounding text in square brackets like these
 * 3) Album names should always appear in italics.
 * 4) * Linking album titles should look like this: ' 'Album Title' '
 * 5) Song titles should be surrounded by "quotation marks"
 * 6) Assign each page a category by putting something like these at the bottom:
 * 7) * or  or

Formatting
Formatting text and articles is really quite easy to learn and do. Here's a quick guide to how I've been formatting things:

{| class="wikitable" ! Item ! width=40% | How To ! width=40% | Result ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | General text formatting italic bold no markup
 * Italics
 * italic
 * italic
 * Bold
 * bold
 * bold
 * No wiki markup
 * &lt;nowiki>no markupno markup</nowiki&gt;
 * Section Header
 * Section Header

Level 4
Rustic Overtones The Lucid Speeb's Twitter
 * On-site links
 * Rustic Overtones
 * Rustic Overtones
 * On-site links w/ alternate text
 * The Lucid
 * The Lucid
 * Off-site links
 * Speeb's Twitter
 * Speeb's Twitter
 * Bullet Lists (used everywhere really)
 * Start each line
 * with an asterisk (*)
 * Add another asterisk
 * To add another level
 * That's about it.
 * To add another level
 * That's about it.
 * Start each line
 * with an asterisk (*)
 * Add another asterisk
 * To add another level
 * That's about it.
 * Numbered Lists
 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a number sign (#)
 * 3) Add another number sign
 * 4) to add another level
 * 5) And so on.
 * 1) Add another number sign
 * 2) to add another level
 * 3) And so on.
 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a number sign (#)
 * 3) Add another number sign
 * 4) to add another level
 * 5) And so on.
 * }
 * }