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Even if you don't want to write articles for this Wiki, sign up anyway and post questions or new information in the '''discussion''' area for each article. If you come across a term you don't know, go the [[terminology]] page and put a comment on the discussion page asking for it to be added.
Even if you don't want to write articles for this Wiki, sign up anyway and post questions or new information in the '''discussion''' area for each article. If you come across a term you don't know, go the [[terminology]] page and put a comment on the discussion page asking for it to be added.


If you are just getting started, there is a Getting Started section on the [[Main Page]] with [[Flashlight Basics]].
If you are just getting started with flashlights, there is a Getting Started section on the [[Main Page]] with [[Flashlight Basics]].


[[Flashlight Manufacturers]] has a list of flashlight manufacturers with many of their current and past flashlight offerings described. This is a great resource if you are shopping for a light (especially used lights) and want to know what is out there and what the difference is between a [[Fenix]] LD20 and a L2D.
[[Flashlight Manufacturers]] has a list of flashlight manufacturers with many of their current and past flashlight offerings described. This is a great resource if you are shopping for a light (especially used lights) and want to know what is out there and, for example, what the difference is between a [[Fenix]] LD20 and a L2D.


The [[LED]] page can get you up to speed on high power flashlight LED's with pages for the major LED manufacturers, so you can find out what the difference is between a [[Cree]] XP-G and a [[Seoul Semiconductor]] P7. And you will learn that a Q5, R2, and R5 aren't types of LED's.
The [[LED]] page can get you up to speed on high power flashlight LED's with pages for the major LED manufacturers, so you can find out what the difference is between a [[Cree]] XP-G and a [[Seoul Semiconductor]] P7. And you will learn that a Q5, R2, and R5 aren't types of LED's.
Links to items within the Wiki are [[Eneloop|green]] ([[Main Page|brown]] if you've visited the page before). Links to other sites are the traditional blue (purple if you've visited before) and have a little icon indicating it is an offsite link, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page this]. [[Red links]] are links to pages that don't exist yet.


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