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:''This page is created as a humorous complement to [[Wikipedia:Avoid using wikilinks]].

{{Clickable button 2|{{#ifeq: {{PAGENAME}}|Avoid using preview button/preview|WP:Avoid using preview button/previewAlt|WP:Avoid using preview button/preview}}|Show preview}}<br />
{{gray|<small>The preview button. Don’t click!</small>}}

'''Preview button''' (shown on the left) is sometimes used to preview edits before saving them. This is wrong, evil and politically incorrect for several reasons:

# If your computer crashes, all your work will be lost.
# [[Wikipedia:Editcountitis|You won't have as many edits]], and therefore, you are less likely to become an administrator of Wikipedia.
# Servers cannot handle the load of generating pages that do not even exist yet.
# If your typo causes a link to go red, that will cause people to realise that they should probably create a redirect to the real page. Since if you have misspelled it, somebody else might do so too.
# All that time spent will result in you getting an edit conflict, causing work lost and further headache.

==Alternatives==
* Parse all the text in your head, if you would like to see how it would look.
* Publish the page (marking the edit minor). If the outcome is undesirable, edit again. If you like it, edit again, making a small change and apologising for marking a major edit as minor.
* Make a private sandbox.

==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Avoid using wikilinks]]

{{Wikipedia essays|humour}}

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