Beginner's Guide/Formatting

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Your material won't be worth a thing if it's not parsed or organized in a way that doesn't cause people to faint, erupt into seizures, or make their eyes fall out, and run far, far away.

A couple of things to keep in mind:

• Parsing is important. You need to add only ONE line between each separate paragraphs to create a break, like so:

I am a long passage of clever prose.

I am a witty line to garner a laugh before another passage of witty prose.

I am another long passage of witty prose.

Making it appear like this:

I am a long passage of clever prose.
I am a witty line to garner a laugh before another passage of witty prose.
I am another long passage of witty prose.

• Make It Look Nice. Subdivisions using "=" are useful in separating different sections. Make use of them appropriately. When using a tertiary subdivision "===Title===", it often helps to use a bullet ("*Text Here") or an indent (":Text Here") in the following line. Unless intentional, large spans of empty space are distracting and do nothing to help your article.

• Link to it, link from it. Links are like the veins and arteries of a wiki. If you don't have enough links to and from your article, it dies from lack of oxygen. If your article has too many links, it dies from youcan'tbeallveinsitis. Be sensible. This also means you have to read a lot of Uncyclopedia to see what other pages you can link to. You don't have to read all of it - generally the best practice is to just skim and follow links. If you find a hole where an article should be, edit some of the pages you have read, and link words in those pages to the article you are writing. Make sure to link words in your article to other pages. However, you only need a link or two per paragraph. Don't overdo it.

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