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Description	You type	You get
Italic text	`''italic''`	italic

Bold text	`'''bold'''`	bold

Bold and italic text	`'''''bold and italic'''''`	bold and italic

Internal link (within Tolkien Gateway)	`[[Bilbo Baggins]]` `[[Bilbo Baggins\|Bilbo]]`	Bilbo Baggins Bilbo

External link (to other websites)	`[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000453/ IMDb]` `[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Holm]` `[[Wikipedia:Ian Holm\|Wikipedia]]`	IMDb [1] Wikipedia

Referencing	`Simple: Fact<ref>Source</ref>` `Source used more than once:<ref name="tralala">Source 2</ref> Reusing such a note: <ref name="tralala"/>` (at the end of the article, type {{references}}	Simple: Fact^[1] Source used more than once:^[2] Reusing such a note: ^[2] ↑ Source ↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Source 2

Section headers	`== Level 1 ==` `=== Level 2 ===` `==== Level 3 ====`	Level 1 Level 2 Level 3

Adding bullets	`* One` `* Two` `** Two point one` `* Three`	One Two Two point one Three

Numbered list Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.	`# One` `# Two` `## Two point one` `# Three`	One Two Two point one Three

Thumbnail image See also Help: Images.	`[[File:J.R.R. Tolkien - G for Gandalf.png\|thumb\|Gandalf's signature, the rune "G".]]`	Gandalf's signature, the rune "G".

Poem extension	`<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;"> The text Of the Poem Goes here </poem>`	The text Of the Poem Goes here

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