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Clicking on the ad will take you to a relevant page; to view the image description page, click the "file info" link. To include the ad box on your userpage or talk page, simply edit your page and add {{Wikipedia ads}} in the appropriate place. This will produce something like the following:
On Wikipedia, you're not allowed to edit articles about yourself (or your best friend, or your boss, or the skunk who lives under your porch). Wikipedia's long-held conflict of interest policy limits an article's contributors to anonymous strangers and unrelated randos for the sake of objectivity. But this can be frustrating to subjects of ...
A note about editing on mobile devices: Most Wikipedians prefer to edit from a computer, as the editing interface works better there. You can edit from a mobile device and tablet, though. See this page for more information. Wikipedia is formatted using its own language called wiki markup, also called wikitext. It's pretty easy to learn the basics.
To see how the page looks with your changes, press the "Show preview" button. To see the differences between the page with your edits and the previous version of the page, press the "Show changes" button. If you're satisfied with what you see, be bold and press the "Save page" button. Your changes will immediately be visible to all Wikipedia ...
Edit the image page, adding the following template at the top of the edit box: {{rename|newname.ext|reason}}, where newname.ext is the new name you want for the image, and reason explains why you want it renamed. Add an edit summary, being sure to mention "rename" and a summary of your reason for the rename.
To view and edit a page using wiki markup, click Edit or Edit source at the top of any page. This will allow you to type text that you want to add, using wiki markup to format the text and to add other elements like images and tables that are explained later in this tutorial.
This is intended for the rare cases when the Wikipedia software that reduces images to thumbnails does a poor job, and you want to provide your own thumbnail. In the following example, the double-rectangle links to File:Anime stub 2.svg but the image displayed is File:Anime stub.png: Putting the puzzle together
Click on the image to bring up its page in Commons. Click "Use this file" next to the Wikipedia symbol, located above the image. Copy the top option, which will look like [[File:Baby Louie oviraptorid.jpg|thumb|Baby Louie oviraptorid]]. Click on the Edit tab of the draft page. Add an edit summary such as "Added image" and click Publish changes.