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Using Misplaced Pages
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- Tutorial
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- How to start a new page
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- How to use redirect pages
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
- How to add boilerplate text for readers
- How to use tables
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- How to rename (move) a page
- How to delete pages/images/categories
- How to link together Misplaced Pages articles in different languages
- How to link to sister projects
- How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
- How to edit with an external editor
- How to edit mathematical formulas using TeX
- How to produce graphics for pages
- How to protect/unprotect pages (sysops only)
- How to use templates (and the available templates)
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- Glossary of common Misplaced Pages terms
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- Topical index, a collection of links to pages that are useful to "doing things" in Misplaced Pages.
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