User:Katherine/WP-links
A directory of links to frequently-used Wikipedia project pages. I have created this directory to save me having to hunt through search pages and bookmarks.
Infoboxes
[edit]- Schools
- {{Infobox settlement}} - Standard infobox template for most types of settlements like cities, towns, villages, etc. To use it, copy the format located at Template:Infobox settlement and substitute the settlement's information in the parameters section as directed on the Infobox template page. See San Jose, California for an example.
- {{Infobox Australian place}} - Australian variation of the standard infobox.
Note: The Indian Jurisdiction infobox is up for deletion. Do not use.
Template guide
[edit]Reference list of frequently-used templates, including a summary of their content.
| Template name | Usage | Reason | Message summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uw-badlistentry | {{subst:uw-badlistentry|Article|Additional text}} ~~~~ | User adds redlink to list | Names & orgs added to lists should have an article. Only create one if notable. |
| Uw-articlesig | {{subst:uw-articlesig|Article}} ~~~~ | Adding name or sig to article | Hello, thanks for contribs, please don't sign articles, edit history shows attribution |
| Uw-spam2 | (Twinkle) | 2nd warning, spam and other WP:ELNO | Please don't add, see WP:EL and WP:SPAM |
| Uw-error1 | (Twinkle) | 1st warn, deliberate factual errors | Your edit added incorrect info, must be WP:V and WP:RS, don't add without cite |
| Uw-talkinarticle | (Twinkle) | Single-issue notice, talk/commentary in article space | Thanks for contribs, noticed commentary, please use talk page, quick summary of talk guidelines. |
| Gutenberg | (external links) | Template to link to books at Project Gutenberg | Example: {{Gutenberg|no=2383|name=The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems}} |
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Reference guide
[edit]Links to references which have proven useful in wikifying dead-end pages and other tidy-up tasks.
NSW state records
[edit]- Indexes Online - index of records (need to go to reading room at Kingswood for these)
Places
[edit]- US Geographic Names Information System - information about physical and cultural geographic features of all types in the United States, associated areas, and Antarctica, current and historical, but not including roads and highways.
- US Hometown Locator - profiles, maps, data, and directions for US cities, towns, neighborhoods, subdivisions, physical, cultural and historical features.
Manual of style
[edit]Sections of the Wikipedia Manual of Style to which I frequently refer. Includes a brief summary of the page or section content, where useful. Most of these summaries are my own interpretation of the MOS, and should not be taken as a Wikipedia guideline or policy.
Section headings
- Headings should not normally contain links (do as I say, not as I do?)
- Capitalise the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest in lower case
- Style markup:
- == Primary heading ==
- === Sub heading ===
- ==== Sub sub heading ====
- A blank line below the heading is optional; but do include one blank line above the heading, for readability in the edit window.
- If the topic of a section is also covered in a dedicated article, show this by inserting {{main|Article name}} directly under the section heading.
Offices, positions, and job titles
- Positions and titles are common nouns, and should only be capitalised when they form part of a person's name.
- Usage examples: Prime Minister Gillard - Louis XVI was King of France
- La Gillardine is the prime minister of Australia - A monarchy has a king or queen as its head of state
Religions, deities, and philosophies
- Names of organised religions take a capital letter, whether used as a noun or adjective. Islam, Catholicism, Pentecostal
- Unofficial movements and ideologies within religions do not take a cap. evangelical, fundamentalist
Acronyms in article titles
- Name the page for the acronym is that is the most usual and common name. NASA, radar
- Use redirects and disambiguation pages where confusion exists.
Acronyms in article body
- Do not apply initial caps to common nouns even when forming an acronym. AutoCad is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool...'
- Use the full name as the first reference, and give the acronym as an alternative. Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)
- Generally avoid full stops in acronyms, but more importantly be consistent.
Special considerations
In normal text:
- Texas, not TX. New South Wales, not NSW
Unless an official name or registered trademark:
- Mount or Mountain, not Mt
Disambiguation pages
Top of the page
[edit]- Definitions - cross-link to Wiktionary. {{wiktionary pipe|WORD|optional display name}} – without parameters, defaults to using the current page's name. Check the links as Wiktionary titles are case-sensitive on the first letter, using proper caps for its entries.
- When a page has "(disambiguation)" in its title – i.e., it is the disambiguation page for a term that has a WP:primary topic, link back to the primary topic:
A school is an institution for learning.
School may also refer to:
- School (discipline) or school of thought, a number of individuals with shared styles, approaches or aims
- School (fish), a group of fish swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner
- . . .
- Intro line - The term being disambiguated should be in bold (not italics). It should begin a sentence fragment ending with a colon, introducing a bulleted list. Examples:
- Interval may refer to:
- John Smith is the name of:
- ABC may stand for:
- Arc or ARC may refer to:
Don't include minor variants. ( AU may refer to ) is better than ( AU or au or Au may refer to ).
Individual entries
[edit]- Preface each entry with a bullet (an asterisk in wiki markup)
- Start each entry with a capital letter (unless it begins with a link to an article marked with {{lowercase}}, like eBay)
- Entries should nearly always be sentence fragments, with no final punctuation (commas, full stops, semicolons, etc.)
- Each entry should have exactly one navigable link to guide readers to the most relevant article for that use term - do not wikilink any other words in the line
Dark Star (song), by the Grateful Dead NOT Dark Star (song), by the Grateful Dead
- Keep the description to a minimum, just enough to determine the subject
- Usually the title is at the start of the line, and displayed in full (not piped unless formatting needed, such as for book and movie titles in italics)
- Dab pages shouldn't have all red links, or only one blue link
- Never include external links
- No references - incorporate them into the article
People
[edit]- Include birth and death year if known, and just enough descriptor to distinguish between people:
- John Adams (composer) (born 1947), American composer who came to prominence with his opera Nixon in China
- John Adams (physicist) (1920–1984), Director General of CERN and particle accelerator designer
- John Adams (martyr) (died 1586), Catholic priest and martyr under Elizabeth I of England
Places
[edit]- Just the name of the article may be enough (Jacksonville, Florida; Jacksonville, Alabama)
- It may be appropriate to add the country after the link. Leave the country unlinked. (Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom; Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada
Redlinks
[edit](See also MOS:DABRL)
- Only retain redlinks if they are linked to by an article (check What links here)
- If the only pages that use the red link are disambiguation pages, do one of the following:
- Unlink the entry word but still keep a blue link in the description. Red links should not be the only link in a given entry; link also to an existing article, so that a reader (as opposed to a contributing editor) will have somewhere to navigate to for additional information. The linked article should contain some meaningful information about the term.
- Start a new article for the red link, using the description on the disambiguation page.
- Make a redirect to a page where the item is described (see Piping and redirects above).
Organisation
[edit]- Primary subject at the top
- Split long dab pages into sections
- Use a See also section for likely misspellings, different forms, confused terms (Newtown, New Town)
End of the page
[edit]The usual template to use is {{[/wiki/Template:Disambig disambig]}}, which produces a general disambiguation notice, and places the page in Category:Disambiguation pages. Parameters can be added to place the page additionally into other more specific disambiguation categories. For example, if a page includes multiple places and multiple people with the same surname (and possibly other items), use {{[/wiki/Template:Disambig disambig]|geo|surname}}. A full list of available parameters and their corresponding categories can be found in the {{[/wiki/Template:Disambig disambig]}} template documentation. See also: