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General Help Characters Editing Layout Naming conventions Sources Style
Special Topics Caching Collapsible tables Consensus checks Disambiguation Images Int'l characters Interviews Quotes Portals Signatures Spoilers Tables of contents Templates Theories
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Help Pages

General Help

• Editing -- provides information on formatting and good editing practices
• Layout -- provides information on standard ordering and labeling of article sections and other page elements, and provides blank article layout templates for new articles
• Style -- provides information on creating consistent and high-quality articles
• Sources -- explains the difference between canon, official, credible, and other sources for information

Special Topics

• Collapsible Tables -- explains how to create tables which can be collapsed or sorted by a reader
• Disambiguation -- explains how and when to add disambiguation pages
• Images -- explains how to upload images, how to credit the source of your images, how to create image galleries, and standard size for images for use in consistent elements
• International characters -- provides links for enabling support for East Asian and Indic characters
• Interviews -- explains the process for conducting an interview to be published on Heroes Wiki
• Memorable quotes -- explains how and when to add memorable quotations from episodes and graphic novels to articles
• Signatures -- explains how and when to sign comments, and how to customize your signature
• Spoilers -- explains how and when to create and edit articles in the Spoilers category
• Tables of Contents -- explains how, when, and where Tables of Contents appear, and how they can be modified
• Templates -- provides information on using and creating templates
• Theories -- explains how to use the Theories articles and how to add new theories

If you want to try out or practice wiki markup or other formatting, please use the Sandbox, not an actual article.

How Do I...

• ...add a new article?
• ...format text?
• ...add a table?
• ...link to other articles?
• ...add a new episode?
• ...add categories to articles?
• ...upload and add images to articles?
• ...write using language consistent with other articles?
• ...use a template?
• ...use an article as if it were a template?
• ...copy the contents of one article into another?
• ...create a new template?
• ...print information when a template is used only if certain conditions are met?
• ...request a screen capture?
• ...distinguish easily confused terms from one another?
• ...add a new theory to an existing Theories section?
• ...add a new section to the Theories page?
• ...add an article for unaired or speculative information?
• ...create a collapsible table?
• ...conduct an interview?

External Resources

• WikiText (very useful for learning how to format entries here)
• Magic Words & Variables
• Parser Functions Help (conditionals for templates and articles)
• String Functions Help (functions to manipulate and test strings in templates and articles)
• Dynamic Page List Help (function to automate list updating in templates and articles)
• HTML in Wikitext (lists all available HTML tags)
• Universal Character Set codes (character representation in &#<code>; format)
• Wiki Tables
• Footnotes
• W3 Standards for XHTML

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