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These questions and answers have been culled from some of the talk pages of the various editing-related Help: pages. If you see a useful answer there or anywhere else, please add it here.

==Editing==

===Q: How do I sign the content I edit?===

Three consecutive tildes (<ttkbd><nowiki>~~~</nowiki></ttkbd>) will insert a link to your user page. Four (<ttkbd><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></ttkbd>) will insert that link and the save time and date. Five (<ttkbd><nowiki>~~~~~</nowiki></ttkbd>) insert just the time and date.

===Q: Can I link to a specific section header if there are multiple section headers of the same name? If so, how?===

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#Use the table of contents.

#:If a table of contents appears on the page, click on the header that you wish to link to. The page will jump to that header. Now, look at the [[en:Uniform Resource Locator|URL]]. At the end, it will show the ID of the header in question. An example of a URL that has just been linked to a header named "Foo" that has already appeared twice (and so is the third instance):

#::<ttkbd><nowiki>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Example_article#Foo_3</nowiki></ttkbd>

#:The header link at the end of the URL shows that to link to this header, you would use <nowiki>[[#Foo 3]]</nowiki>.

#Look at the source.

#:While looking at the source, first find the section you're looking for, and then look at its ID tags. It will show the number in that tag. An example for a header named "Foo" that has already appeared once (and so is the second instance):

#::<ttkbd><nowiki><p><a name="Foo_2" id="Foo_2"></a></p></nowiki></ttkbd>

#::<ttkbd><nowiki><h3>Foo</h3></nowiki></ttkbd>

#:The ID and name tags (the ones that say "a name=" and "id=") show that this header can be linked to with <nowiki>[[#Foo 2]]</nowiki>.

===Q: How do I upload and make available PDF files?===

==Miscellaneous==

===Q: How do I get a page deleted?===

See [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy]]. The simplest case is where an editor has created a sub-page of their user page and wishes it to be deleted. Put the code <code><nowiki>{{db-user}}</nowiki></code> at the top of the page, and save; an [[WP:administrator|administrator]] will then delete the page for you.

For example, if I'm done fooling around with some sandbox pages created as sub-pages of my Wikimedia user page, how do I get them deleted? The Help mentions "contacting an administrator", but if there is a '''list of admins''' somewhere, I was unable to find it. The wikipedia "VfD" approach does not seem to be implemented on Wikimedia, so I'm at a loss.

A: [[Meta:Deletion_policy]]

A: The list of admins is here: [[Meta:Administrators#List of administrators]]

===Q: How do I archive my User PageTalk page?===

Various possibilities are laid out at [[Help:Archiving a talk page]]. A convenient method, automatic once it has been set up, is to let a [[WP:bot|bot]] do the work. Copy the markup displayed at [[User:lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo#Example 2 - incremental archives]] to the top of your user talk page, replacing the word "example" with your actual user name.

A: Four possibilities are:

#move talk page to page like User:a/b (history is now in this archive)

#move page contents to such a page (history is still in the regular talk page)

#just delete content (it is still in the history, but one can less easily search in that text) -- [[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 14:32, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

#Use a link to an earlier version of the page in its history. It does not require creating "sub pages" for archives. You can see an example at [[en:wikibooks:Talk:Wikijunior_Solar_System/Solar_System|wikibooks:Talk:Wikijunior_Solar_System/Solar_System]].

#*Click on the history tab

#**Click on the first version listed there

#**Copy the URL from the address bar. Let's say it is <tt><nowiki>http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?User_talk:a&oldid=12345</nowiki></tt>

#*Edit your talk page.

#**Delete all the stuff you want to remove from the current version of your talk page.

#**Link to the archive version as <tt><nowiki>[http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?User_talk:a&oldid=12345 Sept 2005 archive]</nowiki></tt>

#**Save the new version of your page.

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