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{{__TOC__}} (though I am not sure if this is the only way of doing it!) gives:

Stuff to clarify^[clarify]

Stuff to cite^{[citation needed]}

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Use & amp ; before nbsp; to allow html elements to display - November 2011

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Welcome (from lovely Spanish one)

coloured font <font color="#608011"> text </font> = text

Wiki search terms to narrow searches

Search for "the world war I"

Oh, I thought you were using AWB for those types of searches
After some research it appears that the Wikipedia search engine uses Lucene, which led me to this page [2]
It seems as if this works quite well:
"the?world?war?I" NOT "World War" NOT "World" NOT "War"
If you put that in the standard wikipedia search box it gives Eastern Front (World War II) as the second result, and, lo and behold it has a "the World War I" in it !! Woohoo ! so, to do world war two would be
"the?world?war?II" NOT "World War" NOT "World" NOT "War"

Inline templates

{{Cite quote}}^{[This quote needs a citation]}: for "actual quotations" which need citations to make them proper
{{Page number}}^{[page needed]}: request a page number for an existing citation
{{List fact}}{{list fact}}: request a citation of a source which justifies inclusion of a given entry in a list
{{Clarify}}^{[clarification needed]}: request clarification of wording or interpretation
{{Reference necessary}}^{[citation needed]}: wrapper for a portion of a paragraph to highlight it as needing citation
{{Nonspecific}}^{[not specific enough to verify]}: flag a general, yet factual statement as needing to be made more specific before it can be verified
{{Examples}}^{[example needed]}: request examples for clarification
{{Cn-span}} Example text^{[citation needed]}: highlights the text that needs verifying

Incomplete citations

{{Page needed}}^{[page needed]}: in-line request for the page number or page numbers in a work such as journal for an existing citation.
{{Season needed}}^{[season and episode needed]}, similar to {{page needed}}: for missing TV season & episode number
{{Volume needed}}^{[volume & issue needed]}, similar to {{page needed}}: for missing journal, newspaper, comic, etc., volume and issue numbers)
{{Full}}^{[full citation needed]}: in-line request for full citation, for example when only (Author, YEAR) is given.

Verification

{{Dead link}}^{[dead link‍]}: request a fix for a dead external link within a paragraph or a reference citation.
{{Failed verification}}^{[failed verification]}: source was checked, and did not contain the cited material
{{Request quotation}}^{[need quotation to verify]}: request a direct quote from an inaccessible source, for verification purposes
{{Self-citation}}^{[self-published source?]}: flag a source that cites the author
{{Verify credibility}}^{[unreliable source?]}: flag a source as possibly being unreliable and/or unverifiable
{{Verify source}}^{[verification needed]}: request that someone verify the cited source backs up the material in the passage
{{Primary source claim}}^{[non-primary source needed]}: flags a statement as only being verified by a Primary source

Content

{{Dubious}}^{[dubious – discuss]}: flag something as suspected of being incorrect
{{Or}}^{[original research?]}: flag something as possibly containing original research
{{undue-inline}}^{[undue weight? – discuss]}: show that a statement does not ascribe appropriate weight to its sources, according to their prominence; use in preference to...
{{POV-statement}}^{[neutrality is disputed]}: dispute the neutrality of a passage
{{Weasel-inline}}^{[weasel words]}: Avoid weasel words
{{Peacock term}}^{[peacock prose]}: Avoid peacock terms too
{{Jargon-statement}}^[jargon]: ...and Jargon
{{Who}}^[who?]: for placement after descriptions of a group of persons
{{Whom}}^{[according to whom?]}: placement after mention of a vague third party claim that is not sourced
{{Quantify}}^[quantify]: flag a statement as being vague regarding the amount of something
{{When}}^[when?]: flags a particular time period as being vague or ambiguous
{{Time fact}}^{[chronology citation needed]}: request a source confirming or providing the chronology or timeline of a statement
{{Definition}}^{[when defined as?]}: flag a definition as being ambiguous/confusing

Timeliness

{{Update after}}^{[needs update]}: a template that only shows itself after a specified time, indicating an exceptional statement that will date quickly

Article message box templates

{{Unreferenced}}, article/section has no sources/references/citations given at all
{{Refimprove}}, article/section has weak or incomplete sources/references/citations
{{Cite check}}, article/section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations
Citation method and style
- {{Citation style}}
- {{No footnotes}}

Template constructions - testing

I have edited the sandbox but I am unclear as to whether or not I can test it or find out if it is correct (as I have no clue about how the functions work). Could you please take a look on the sandbox page and check it for me?

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 22:12, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

You can test it by just using {{page tabs/sandbox}} instead of {{page tabs}}. But the proposed code looks good, so I went ahead and did it. Anomie ⚔ 22:55, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

~~I was using my sandbox5 page, and the tl sandbox, but got into difficulties with making it work.~~

I have got as far as adding the extra curly brackets, User:Chaosdruid/sandbox5, but is there possibly a limitation to the amount of nested functions? I cannot seem to get it to register the last three when testing on the Special:ExpandTemplates page.

~~Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 22:12, 20 March 2012 (UTC)~~

OK, that is weird - It works! but not on the special test page, ah well, thanks for the help :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 23:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)