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I seem to need to be careful with capitalization when referring to other articles using the [[ notation. This is annoying because in many cases the capitalization of the article I'm referring to is wrong. For instance, Appletalk is actually AppleTalk. Is there some way to...

1) fix the titles 2) make [[ non-case-sensitive

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You should fix the title. It's a bit of work though. Here's how: In the article you're writing, create a link to AppleTalk. Save the article. You'll see a question mark after AppleTalk, since the article doesn't exist yet. Click on the question mark, then edit the new AppleTalk article. In another window, edit the old Appletalk article, cut-and-paste all material from Appletalk to AppleTalk. Save AppleTalk, then replace Appletalk with the text "#REDIRECT [[AppleTalk]]" in the first line. This way, all old links pointing to Appletalk will now point to AppleTalk. If Appletalk had an associated Talk page (Talk:Appletalk), you should also cut and paste the material from there into Talk:AppleTalk. AxelBoldt, Thursday, May 30, 2002

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How do I redirect a link to another page - for instance, how to I get all links to CIA to point to Central Intelligence Agency? -- Robert Merkel

To redirect an article, make the entry #REDIRECT [[the name of the article you want the article you're editing to be redirected to]] --KQ

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I have seen people use footnotes of some sort (if I remember correctly, most were just hyperlinks to outside pages, like so 1). Are there rules about using footnotes? Are footnotes desirable?--branko

I haven't seen any rules about footnotes, but personally I don't like the style you use above to refer to outside websites. When I see [1], I immediately think "footnote" or "references" and go to the end of the article to look up reference number 1. But there is none. I think it would be better to have a decent references section at the end of the article, listing outside sites (with URL, title, author, so that they can be found even if the URL changes), articles and books. If those references are numbered, you could actually use the [1] notation to refer to the first item. --AxelBoldt

I agree. Is there a way, however, to link from a footnote to the reference it belongs to? In HTML you would use the name-attribute in an a-tag.--branko

I just spent 20 minutes changing the footnotes in an article to link directly rather than to a name-attribute: all I had was a link, with no author and article name. I agree that having those would be better; however I do not mind if the ^footnotes link directly, as long as the notes are still listed out at the end. My .02. And no, I don't think the name-attributes are working, though you might second the request. --Koyaanis Qatsi

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I can see that what people use for italics and bold letters are the HTML codes (<i> etc.) and not the quotation marks that are given in the table. In fact, the quotation marks (or apostrophe or whatever) don't seem to work. Should't this be fixed? I dare not do it myself because I'm not very familiar with this. Calypso

They are quotation marks: two give italics, three give bold, five give bold italics. It should work fine. Here's an example: italics, bold, bold italics. AxelBoldt

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How do I undo a circular redirect? Canada/cities is a redirect to Canadian cities, which is a redirect to Canada/cities. The content may be in a previous version Canadian cities, or may have been lost altogether. We can redo the content, if necessary, but not with the double redirect in place. (I can't get to Canadian cities to find its diffs/history.) Vicki Rosenzweig

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I would like to add a paragraph to a page, but mark it as being tentative, needing correction, needing editing, or incomplete. How to do this? David 10:26 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)

You could add a note to the effect of "(this paragraph needs some work)". Or you might be to leave it in the talk page until you think it belongs in the article itself. --Brion VIBBER

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