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To improve, update, or correct an article, sign in and click on the article's <FONT style="border: 1px #0F0F00 solid; background: #FFFFEF;">'''edit'''</FONT> tab at the top of the page.  You can click on the <FONT style="border: 1px #0F0F00 solid; background: #FFFFEF;">'''Show preview'''</FONT> button to test your revision and press <FONT style="border: 1px #0F0F00 solid; background: #FFFFEF;">'''Save page'''</FONT> button when you are finished with it.
To improve, update, or correct an article, sign in and click on the article's <FONT style="border: 1px #0F0F00 solid; background: #FFFFEF;">'''edit'''</FONT> tab at the top of the page.  You can click on the <FONT style="border: 1px #0F0F00 solid; background: #FFFFEF;">'''Show preview'''</FONT> button to test your revision and press <FONT style="border: 1px #0F0F00 solid; background: #FFFFEF;">'''Save page'''</FONT> button when you are finished with it.


To create a new article, simply add the name of the page that you would like to create to your browser's address bar.  If the title contains two or more words, add an underscore instead of a space.  For example, to create an article on former national chair and executive director [[Steve Dasbach]]:
To create a new article, simply add the name of the page that you would like to create to your browser's address bar.  If the title contains two or more words, add an underscore instead of a space.  For example, if an article for current national chair '''Bill Redpath''' did not already exist, you could create it by typing:


Type:
    ht<B></B>tp://www.lpedia.org/index.php/Bill_Redpath


    http://www.lpedia.org/index.php/Steve_Dasbach
You would then see a page telling you that the article did not exist (unless it already exists, as is the case).  Simply click on the <FONT style="border: 1px #0F0F00 solid; background: #FFFFEF;">'''edit'''</FONT> tab to create and save your entry as described above.
 
You will then see a page telling you that the article does not exist (unless it already exists).  Simply click on the <FONT style="border: 1px #0F0F00 solid; background: #FFFFEF;">'''edit'''</FONT> tab to create and save your entry as described above.


If your editing skills aren't as good as you wish they were, note that you can improve the article later, and so can any other editor.
If your editing skills aren't as good as you wish they were, note that you can improve the article later, and so can any other editor.

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