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<b>History</b>: One that it seems a lot of people skip over. This button shows an edit log for the page. For each line, "cur" compares that edit to the current entry, "last" compares the edit to the entry before to display what was changed. Clicking on the date allows you to view the article as it looked when that edit was completed and then the name links to the user page of the editor. A small "m" signifies an edit marked as "minor" whilst if you are using the similarly arranged "Recent changes" page (link in the left menus), a capital "N" signifies a new article. | <b>History</b>: One that it seems a lot of people skip over. This button shows an edit log for the page. For each line, "cur" compares that edit to the current entry, "last" compares the edit to the entry before to display what was changed. Clicking on the date allows you to view the article as it looked when that edit was completed and then the name links to the user page of the editor. A small "m" signifies an edit marked as "minor" whilst if you are using the similarly arranged "Recent changes" page (link in the left menus), a capital "N" signifies a new article. | ||
<b>Move</b>: This button allows you to move the article to be filed under a different title. This is not usually advised unless you are certain the page should be moved, such as when you've created the page but made a typo in the title. | <b>Move</b>: This button allows you to move the article to be filed under a different title. This is not usually advised unless you are certain the page should be moved, such as when you've created the page but made a typo in the title. It is also used if the page title is ambiguous; e.g. a page titled "Ready Room" could be the ready room of any ship in the fleet, so it'd be moved to a different title to make the subject clearer. Using the move button is far preferred to copying and pasting the text across to a new title as a copy and paste move will lose the page history (see History above) whilst using the move button will move that along with the current content. | ||
<b>Watch</b>: In the top right, when you are logged in, there's a button titled "my watchlist". If you click on the watch button, or tick the "watch this page" option when editing a page, then the last edit of the entry will appear on your "my watchlist" page whenever you check it. This is generally used to track certain articles to see what others are doing to edit it and thus is used either to collaborate with others in rewriting articles or to more quickly spot vandalism on your most frequented pages so that you can revert by using the History button used above, selecting a previous entry, clicking edit to select the archived text and then saving that thus turning the page back to the previous version. | <b>Watch</b>: In the top right, when you are logged in, there's a button titled "my watchlist". If you click on the watch button, or tick the "watch this page" option when editing a page, then the last edit of the entry will appear on your "my watchlist" page whenever you check it. This is generally used to track certain articles to see what others are doing to edit it and thus is used either to collaborate with others in rewriting articles or to more quickly spot vandalism on your most frequented pages so that you can revert by using the History button used above, selecting a previous entry, clicking edit to select the archived text and then saving that thus turning the page back to the previous version. | ||