User:SBJohnny/Sandbox4

=Naming New Pages=

(quick and simple version)

To start a new page on wikibooks, you can do one of three things.
 * First, you can add a link to the page from another wikibooks page, and when you follow that link (which will be red, and hence referred to by wikipeople as a "redlink"), and simply start editing. (See below first though!)
 * Second, you can just add the page name after the "/wiki/" which comes before any wikibooks page name, click "edit this page", and start writing. (See below first though!)

On most other wikimedia projects, you might also do it by searching for a page, and if it doesn't exist, click "edit this page". However, that doesn't work well on wikibooks, unless you're starting a brand new book.

Wikibooks differs from other wikimedia projects in that it relies heavily on subpages. A subpage on wikibooks is either a chapter or page within a book. It's important to keep this in mind when making new pages here.

Here's an example:

Say you're writing a book on Widgets. The main page of the book will just be "Widgets", which is linked to using Widgets, with the URL http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Widgets.

The main page would usually just have some introductory material and a table of contents (though sometimes it might be a book cover), and you want to add a page on manufacturing widgets. There are two ways not to do this:
 * 1) Don't start a page (or make a link to a page) called Manufacturing . This will link to a book called "Manufacturing", which might be a whole book on manufacturing, or just a redlink. You can't just use "Manufacturing" as the linked page, since someone else might come along later and try to do the same thing in a book about Gizmos, and Gizmo manufacturing might not be the same thing as Widget manufacturing.
 * 2) Don't start a page (or make a link to a page) called Manufacturing Widgets . While this doesn't cause as many problems as the first case, it does go against the naming policy.

So instead, make the new page as a subpage. If you want to create a page using a redlink, it's quite easy to do (though it can get complicated in books with sub-subpages... if you need help with that, it's best to ask on the Staff Lounge for help from more experienced users).
 * 1) To link to a subpage from the main page, use /SUBPAGENAME/, or, in our example, either /Manufacturing/ or /Manufacturing Widgets/.
 * 2) To link to a subpage from another subpage, use ../SUBPAGENAME/, or, in our example, either ../Manufacturing/ or ../Manufacturing Widgets/.
 * 3) To create a subpage using the URL method, Just add /Subpagename to the end of the book's main page URL ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Widgets /Manufacturing).