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Revision as of 12:01, 28 June 2009

This is a wiki all about the game show Countdown. You are welcome to read and edit it at your leisure.

Editing the wiki

To edit pages, click on the blue 'edit' link just above the page you wish to edit. This wiki uses the same notations as the English Language Wikipedia and if you're familiar with that you should have no problem using this wiki.

For users that are not familiar with Wikipedia, here are a list of tips.

To write a heading, use the equals sign (=) twice followed by the heading word, followed by another two equals signs. For sub-headings, use six equals signs, or eight, etc. For example ==Countdown== gives a heading of Countdown.

To create links to other articles, put the link word in square brackets such as [[Countdown]]. If you wish to display a word other than the link word, use a vertical bar, for example [[Countdown|game show]] which will show game show but will link to Countdown.

Red links are links towards article that don't exist yet, or never will do. For example Gatwick Airport has absolutely no relevance to Countdown, so nobody will create that article.

You can also use italics and bold, or even bold italics. These are done in the following fashion: ''italics'','''bold''' and '''''bold italics'''''.

External links are generated with single rather than double square brackets with a space separating the link and the phrase to be displayed in the article. For example [http://www.google.com google.com] gives google.com.

Templates

Templates are indicated by brackets ({{template}}). These can be difficult to use and use many different fields, so if in doubt it's best to copy the correct template from another article then change the fields manually.

Images

Images can be uploaded in two ways. Either by click on the upload file on the left on the screen (Special:Upload) or by inserting a red link for an image into an article, then clicking on the red link which will take you to the same upload page. Image links are inserted by making a link prefixed by image: for example [[Image:Gatwick Airport.jpg]] will create a red link which can be clicked on to upload an image of the airport. All images should be uploaded to be used in article or a personal page, completely unused images may be deleted.

Signatures

To sign your name on talk pages only, type four tildes -- ~~~~ which gives Example 09:41, 3 April 2009 (BST).

Notability of articles

This wiki is about the game show Countdown. It's primarily about the televised show and thus most of the articles are about episodes, players, Dictionary Corner guests and hosts of the show. However Countdown is becoming more popular as competitive game similar to Scrabble where competitions with cash prizes are organised. These tournaments and their players are also notable by our standards. Similarly, material related to online and real life tournaments are also notable - for examples of this see Goatdown, Hypercountdown and Anagram solver, for just a couple of examples. Don't be shy in creating new articles, these can easily be modified by existing members and in very rare cases they can be deleted, although usually this is reserved for obvious spam non-Countdown pages. Don't be worried if your article is modified, all articles are modified at some point to update them.

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