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Quick Help
Recommend reading:
- First, review the official MediaWiki MediaWiki Help Contents for Editors.
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- Play around in Help:Sandbox. This article is meant to be used for testing.
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Getting Started
- Getting Started
- Editing an Existing Article
- Deleting an Article
- Using WikiLinks
- Using Wiki Markup
- Commonly used templates
- Creating a Page (Procedures)
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- Quickly Create - A Battle Armor Article
- Quickly Create - A BattleMech Article
- Quickly Create - A Character Article
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- Quickly Create - A Dynastic House Article
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- Quickly Create - An Infantry Unit article
- Quickly Create - An Infantry Weapon Article (work in progress)
- Quickly Create - A JumpShip Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Military Command
- Quickly Create - An Organization Article
- Quickly Create - A Planet or System Article
- Quickly Create - A ProtoMech Article
- Quickly Create - A Real Person Article
- Quickly Create - A Small Craft Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Space Station Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Sports Team Article
- Quickly Create - A Static Structure Article
- Quickly Create - A Support Vehicle Article
- Quickly Create - An Individual Spacecraft Article (WarShip, JumpShip, DropShip, or Small Craft)
- Quickly Create - A WarShip Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Weapon Article
- Creating a Sub-Page
- Request Admin Help
- How to Cite References
- How to use Magic Words
What To Contribute
Whatever you want! Contribute anything that comes to mind.
However, if you want some guidance, there are BTW's Task Center and Wanted page list.
Help Pages
Help articles
- Help:About help pages
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- Help:Citations quick reference
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- Help:Cleanup Templates
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How Tos
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Information Pages
- Information:About the sandbox
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- Information:April Fools
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- Information:Drafts
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- Information:Essay
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- BattleTechWiki:Five pillars
- Information:Help namespace
- BattleTechWiki:History/Article Count History
- Information:Image dos and don'ts
- Information:Images
- Information:List dos and don'ts
- BattleTechWiki:Logos
- Information:Lua
- BattleTechWiki:Masthead
- Information:MediaWiki namespace
- Information:Misuse of the sandbox
- Information:Namespaces
- Information:Orphan
- Information:Product Type Classification Tree
- Information:Questions
- Information:Quoting your own essay
- Information:References dos and don'ts
- BattleTechWiki:Requests for comment
- Information:Rules for Fools
- Information:Shortcut
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- Information:Show preview
- Information:Spam
- Information:Splitting
- Information:Succession Box
- Information:Succession Box/Cheatsheet
- Information:Succession Box/Templates
- Information:Table dos and don'ts
- Information:Tagging pages for problems
- BattleTechWiki:Template index/Cleanup
- Information:The perfect article
- Information:The value of essays on BattleTechWiki
- Information:To-do list
- Information:What is an article?
- Information:WikiProjects
- Information:Your first article
Procedures
- Help:CreateASFClassArticle
- Help:CreateBattleArmorArticle
- Help:CreateCharacterArticle
- Help:CreateCombatVehicleArticle
- Help:CreateCommandArticle
- Help:CreateConvFighterArticle
- Help:CreateCorporationArticle
- Help:CreateDropShipClassArticle
- Help:CreateDynasticHouseArticle
- Help:CreateExoskeletonArticle
- Help:CreateFactionArticle
- Help:CreateIndMechArticle
- Help:CreateIndividualSpacecraftArticle
- Help:CreateInfantryWeaponArticle
- Help:CreateJumpShipClassArticle
- Help:CreateMechArticle
- Help:CreateOrganizationArticle
- Help:CreateProtoMechArticle
- Help:CreateSmallCraftClassArticle
- Help:CreateSolarisStableArticle
- Help:CreateSpaceStationClassArticle
- Help:CreateSportsTeamArticle
- Help:CreateStateArticle
- Help:CreateSupportVehicleArticle
- Help:CreateSystemArticle
- Help:CreateWarShipClassArticle
- Help:CreateWeaponArticle
- Help:Create Infantry Unit
External Resources
Official MediaWiki Help
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- Editing Guide
- Wikitext Reference and Examples
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