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* [[Mw:Help:Contents|MediaWiki help contents]]
* Wikipedia's [[W:Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing|Editing tutorial]]
 
Best practices for formatting articles generally follow the same rules as [[W:Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Wikipedia's Manual of style]]. This covers the rules for bolding key words in article intros, using sentence case for article titles and headings, using written-out titles instead of abbreviations, which order to put article sections, etc. We may make our own amendments to this if necessary, though.
 
The rest of this page is for help with Electowiki-specific features (or lack thereof).
 
== Automatic citations ==
Wikipedia has the ability to automatically generate a citation from a unique identifier. WeWhile donwe'tve have[[Mw:Citoid|enabled thatthis functionality]], it doesn't work for all sources (yet?), so youryou optionsmay arehave to use one of these other options:
 
# Enter your URL or unique identifier into [https://tools.wmflabs.org/citer/citer.fcgi Citer] and it will generate wiki markup for a citation that you can copy and paste into the article.