Mental Health Law Online:About

Most pages can be edited. To edit a page click on "edit this page" (at the top of the screen), make your changes, then click "save page".

You have already read enough to begin editing the site! But further details are below.

Practice

You can practise by editing this page: Test page.

Conventions

Legislation with a yellow background cannot be edited. This is to ensure reliability.

Red links are to pages which don't exist yet. Help the site by creating them.

The software won't allow the following characters in page titles: & ? [ ] (So case citations need round brackets.)

Discussion pages

Each article page has an associated discussion page (see the links at the top left). If you have comments or suggestions for a article, but don't want to go so far as to edit the article, then click on "discussion" and edit that instead. E.g. see the Legislation page and its Talk:Legislation page. On the discussion page, you can add your name by typing ~~~~.

Or you could use the suggestion box page.

Adding links

To make a link to an internet site:

• just type the address including the initial 'http://', e.g. type http://www.bailii.org to display http://www.bailii.org.

• or enter the address in square brackets, e.g. [http://www.mhrt.org.uk Tribunal website] to display Tribunal website

To make a link to a page on this site, use double square brackets around its name: type [[MHA 1983]] into the page to display MHA 1983.

Creating pages

Add a link to the page you intend to create (see previous sentence) and click "save" - the link will be red. Click on it to write the page.

Formatting

Surround text with two ' marks to make it italic: type ''word'' to display word.

Sourround text with three ' marks to make it bold: type '''word''' to display word.

Begin a line with a colon to indent it.

Surround a line with two = marks to make a main heading: e.g. == Formatting ==

Surround a line with three = marks to make a sub-heading.

Further information

Wikipedia - Editing "cheatsheet"