Help:Tabs - Sunshine Review

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Contribute tab

Every article on Sunshine Review has a Contribute tab at the top of the page which lets you edit that page. It's Sunshine Review's most basic feature and it allows you to make corrections and add facts to articles. If you add information to a page, please provide references, because unreferenced facts may need to be removed.

To try it out, visit the sandbox and click the Contribute tab. This will open an editing window containing the text for that page. Add something fun like "Hello world!" and then click Save page to see your work!

"Show preview"

It's a good habit to use the Show preview button before saving the page. Try making an edit in the sandbox and click Show preview instead of Save page. This allows you to see, before it's saved, how the page will look after your edit. We all make mistakes; this feature lets you catch them. Using Show Preview before saving also lets you try format changes and other edits without cluttering up the page history. Don't forget to save your edits after previewing!

History tab

The "History" tab tells the history of the article, which means you can see every edit ever made to it. In order to do this, first click on the "History" tab. Next select two edits and click on "Compare". It will show the old version in yellow and the new edits in red text and highlighted in green.

Move tab

There "Move" tab has also proven to be very helpful. Sometimes people realize they have made spelling errors or subjects evolve to a point where articles need a new title. Instead of creating a new page and manually fixing all the existing links, Mediawiki created the "Move" tab. Click on this tab and you'll be able to move any pages, and its associated links, to a new title by filling out a simple form. In order to work well with the community it is always best to check out the guidelines for titling a page.

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