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Grand Theft Wiki Help

Not sure how to do something on Grand Theft Wiki? This section contains a series of pages designed to help you!

Whether you need help with editing syntax, want to know how to name a page, or want to understand what a feature is, there should be something here to help you out.

If you have a question that has not already been answered, please just Ask Us. Also see our FAQs and policy.

To get started with Grand Theft Wiki, see Help:Basics

Help Pages

Basic User Guides	How to Edit	How the Wiki Works
Basics FAQs Behaviour Licensing	Editing Create Images Templates Categories	Languages Recent Edits Talk Pages User Pages Redirects History
Content Help	Advanced Editing	Advanced & Admin Actions
Articles Minor Edits Stubs Titles Canon Style Guide Speculation	Message Boxes Infoboxes Interwiki Magic Words Parser Functions Todo List Profile Tools	Moving Pages Reverting bad edits Logs Cleanup / Vandalism Protection Deletion Staff / Promotion Groups / Rights

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+<center>Not sure how to do something on Grand Theft Wiki? This section contains a series of pages designed to help you!
-Not sure how to do something on Grand Theft Wiki? Need a bit of help with using images? Can't remember how to do tables? This is where you can get some '''Help'''.
+Whether you need help with editing syntax, want to know how to name a page, or want to understand what a feature is, there should be something here to help you out.
-If you have a question that has not already been answered, please just [[Talk:Help|Ask Us]].</noinclude>
+If you have a question that has not already been answered, please just [[Talk:Help|Ask Us]]. Also see our [[Grand Theft Wiki:FAQs|FAQs]] and [[Grand Theft Wiki:Policy|policy]].
-*'''[[Help:How To|How To]]''' - How to use Grand Theft Wiki, find your way and edit pages
-*'''[[Help:Editing|Editing]]''' - How to format text, images, tables and pages.
-*'''[[Help:Articles|Articles]]''' - How content articles should be written and presented.
-*'''[[Help:Page history|Page History]]''' - Help with page history.
-*'''[[Help:Revert|Revert]]''' - How to use reverting, and undoings.
-*'''[[Help:Categories|Categories]]''' - How categories work, and how to use them
-*'''[[Help:Templates|Templates]]''' - Different methods of including templates
-*'''[[Help:Images|Images]]''' - Different methods of showing images
-*'''[[Help:Infoboxes|Infoboxes]]''' - How to use infobox tables & templates on articles
-*'''[[Help:Message Boxes|Message Boxes]]''' - What Message Boxes are, and how to use them
-*'''[[Help:Interwiki|Interwiki]]''' - What an interwiki link is and how to use them
-*'''[[Help:Todo List|Todo List]]''' - How to use to-do lists on pages
-*'''[[Help:Userboxes|Userboxes]]''' - How to use Userboxes on your personal user page
-*'''[[Help:Magic Words|Magic Words]]''' - How to use keywords to output variables etc
-*'''[[Help:Parser Functions|Parser Functions]]''' - How to use functions such as #if, #expr, #time
-*'''[[Help:Moving Pages|Moving pages]]''' - How to move pages.
-*'''[[Help:Deleting Pages|Deleting pages]]''' - How to remove content, and delete pages.
-*'''[[Help:Redirects|Redirects]]''' - How to use redirects.
-*'''[[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]]''' - How to use watchlists.
-*'''[[Help:Talk pages|Talk pages]]''' - What talk pages are for, and how to use them.
-*'''[[Help:Recent changes|Recent changes]]''' - How to use recent changes.
-*'''[[Help:Special pages|Special pages]]''' - What special pages are and how to use them.
-For official guidelines on which methods to use, what should be included in the wiki, and what is/isn't allowed, please see our '''[[Grand Theft Wiki:List of Policies|Policies]]'''.
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