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When you write messages that appear on this website, you can usually spice them up using the simple markup language described below.
This allows you to embed links, make text bold, change color and size, link to user pages automatically etc.

There are also some special tags you can use on artist wiki pages.

Basic Markup

What you write	What you get
Normal text	Normal text
Bold text [b]like this[/b]	Bold text like this
Italic text [i]like this[/i]	Italic text like this
Underlined text [u]like this[/u]	Underlined text like this
Colored text [color=red]works[/color] [color=green]like[/color] [color=blue]this[/color]. [url=http://colorblender.com/]ColorBlender.com[/url] is useful for picking the [color=#467A61]color codes[/color].	Colored text works like this. ColorBlender.com is useful for picking the color codes.
[size=10]Different[/size] [size=14]size[/size] [size=18]text[/size] is also possible.	Different size text is also possible.
Website links: [url]http://www.last.fm/[/url]	Website links: http://www.last.fm/
Website links with link text: [url=http://www.last.fm/]Last.fm[/url]	Website links with link text: Last.fm
Images that exist on some webserver: [img]http://static.last.fm/depth/advertising/lastfm/mini_black_rev.gif[/img]	Images that exist on some webserver:

Linking to Last.fm Pages

Other markup

Special Artist Wiki Markup

You can use these special tags to annotate facts about artists on their wikis.
See an example here: RJ Test Artist 1.

RJ Test Artist is a hard rock band formed in [placeformed]London, UK[/placeformed] in [yearformed]2003[/yearformed]. The original lineup consisted of [bandmember from=2003][artist]Matthew Ogle[/artist][/bandmember], [bandmember from=2003][artist]European Man[/artist][/bandmember] and [bandmember from=2003 to=2005][artist]The Hoff[/artist][/bandmember].

The Hoff left after a disagreement in [yearsplit]2005[/yearsplit], and the band split up. They reformed in [yearreformed]2006[/yearreformed] with a new member, [bandmember from=2006][artist]The Singing Microwave[/artist][/bandmember].

Free tracks can be downloaded at their offical website, [officialsite][url]www.example.com[/url][/officialsite].

The following useful facts will be extracted and used to improve Last.fm:

• [placeformed]London, UK[/placeformed]
  Where the band was formed.
• [yearformed]2003[/yearformed]
  What year the band was formed.
• [yearsplit]2005[/yearsplit]
  What year the band split up (can appear multiple times).
• [yearreformed]2006[/yearreformed]
  What year the band reformed after a split (can appear multiple times).
• [bandmember from=2003][artist]Matthew Ogle[/artist][/bandmember]
[bandmember from=2003][artist]European man[/artist][/bandmember]
[bandmember from=2003 to=2005][artist]The Hoff[/artist][/bandmember]
[bandmember from=2006][artist]The Singing Microwave[/artist][/bandmember]
  Who the band members are, and which years they were active. (One bandmember can appear twice with different date ranges if they joined, left, then rejoined the band).
• [officialsite][url]www.example.com[/url][/officialsite]
  Address of official band website(s).