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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:11, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Bolding a link

On your subpage (User:Crcarey/be bold) you said you didn't know how to make a link bold. Here's how (all of this will work with italics ('') as well):

Internal links

Bolding the whole link

You do it by putting the bold code (''') before the link [[example]].
It should look like this: '''[[example]]''', and that will generate the following; example.

Bolding parts of the link

In order to bold certain parts of a link, you do this: [[example|'''exa'''mple]]
That will generate this: example. As you can see, it only bolded the "exa" bit of the link.

External links

First you need to get the link, for this I'll just use http://www.example.com .
Put the link in by doing [http://www.example.com]. To make it bold, do the same as above; put ''' around the link so it looks like '''[http://www.example.com]'''
That will generate this: [1]

Naming the link

Naming an external link is done by doing the following: [http://www.example.com example].
That will generate: example

Bolding part of the link

This is done the same was as an internal link, by putting the bold code (''') where you want it bolded.
Like this: [http://www.example.com '''exa'''mple].
That will generate: example

Conclusion

I hope this helped you, if you need any more help please ping me by putting {{ping|Anarchyte}} at the front of your response, under this message. If you wish to get help from others, use the {{help me}} template in a new section. Anarchyte 06:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

@Anarchyte: Thank you! I am new here and this was super helpful! I am not sure what the etiquette is for responding to a post like this but I really appreciate the assistance!Crcarey (talk) 04:23, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Crcarey! I'm Vivian, and I'm (waitlisted for) Order & Violence (which is also why I think I can't join the course?). Either way, this is me introducing myself to you as part of the first homework assignment. See you tomorrow! -Vivianliu94 (talk) 04:43, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Sandbox

Please move Impact of Western European colonialism and colonisation/sandbox to your own sandbox. -- TOW  23:54, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

@Tow: Hi, thanks for the feedback. I was trying to create a separate sand box page as described on About the Sandbox. It says, "If you want more sandboxes then make a page in your userspace and designate it as your sandbox. Unlike your primary sandbox, Wikipedia does not automatically keep a way to link to these, so be sure to bookmark it or otherwise have links on your userpage which go to your other sandboxes." Please let me know if I've done this incorrectly, and I am happy to change it. Thanks! Crcarey (talk) 00:34, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

I think you might have wanted to create something like User:Crcarey/sandbox/Impact of Western European colonialism and colonisation. Let me know if you need further help. -- TOW  00:41, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Tow: That is exactly what I wanted to do. I've created a new Sandbox page and requested the deletion of the other page. Thank you for your help! Crcarey (talk) 00:52, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Perfect. -- TOW  01:01, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

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