User:Look2See1/useful stuff

USEFUL STUFF - SUBPAGE

TEMPLATES

{{tb|helpme}}~~~~

{{tb}} helpme template

{{tb|Look2See1}} :: for blue box on another's talk page alerting to new message on mine.

to "leave a note here and 'tb' me"

change to tn -or- tlp :: for both above after used.
{{vandal|-''username''}}
- Information (big I in blue circle)

WIKI POLICY LINKS

WP:AGF - Assume Good Faith
WP:BOLD - bold editing
WP:BRD - BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
WP:CIVIL - civility
Wikipedia:Don't be inconsiderate
WP:TIND - there is no deadline
WP:CONSENSUS - consensus
WP:ANI - admin pg
Wikipedia:No personal attacks
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which one may have been involved.

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HELP LINKS

Chzz: -you have any trouble with it, give me a shout. Cheers, Chzz ► 01:19, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Bwilkins: -User talk:Bwilkins talk→ BWilkins ←track

Use a {{helpme}} - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put {{helpme}}, and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~~~~ at the end; OR

For more help, you can either;

Leave a message on my own talk page; OR
Use a {{helpme}} - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put {{helpme}}, and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~~~~ at the end; OR
Talk to us live, with this or this.

The last of those is particularly useful - please try it; pop in now and say hello. Chzz ► 19:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

LIVE-TALK LINKS

let me know...leave a note here and 'tb' me again, or, use the live talk - which is good for stuff like this! Chzz ► 01:37, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Please see' User:Chzz/help/sig. It is easy to mess up, so please test any new sig by making a test page, e.g. User:Look2See1/sigtest. If you need help with it...you know where to find us. Also feel free to use the live-help facility. Cheers, Chzz ► 20:31, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Talk to us live, with this or this. Chzz ► 19:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Alternatively, you can ask your question at the new contributors help desk, the help desk, or join the #wikipedia-en-help IRC help channel to get real-time assistance. Click here for instant access. .Darkwind (talk) 03:05, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

FUN LINKS

REFERENCES LINKS

Ref help stuff Chzz ► 05:09, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Simple & clear templates--Look2See1 t a l k → 18:25, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

How references work
Simple references [edit] These require two parts; a) Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == References == {{reflist}} (an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections) To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Look2See1/reftest and try it out. Named references [edit] Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/> Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result. Citation templates [edit] You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation \| last = Smith \| first = John \| title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century \| publication-date = 2001 \| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] \| page = 125 \| isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref> Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result. For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

SUBFOLDERS: use notes

To create a new subfolder, the easiest way is, make a link to it somewhere (such as here) - put it in brackets, so e.g. [[User:Look2See1/foo]] - if I write that here, without the nowiki, it'll be a redlink - User:Look2See1/foo. If you click that and make it, it will then show up in that 'flashy drop-down' thingy above.

Re. keeping some stuff that you don't want archiving - not so easy, with the automatic thing; if you really wanted, I suppose you could copy it back again and remove the timestamps - otherwise, you could just keep a link to that section of your archive, or put the 'useful stuff' into a user subpage, e.g. User:Look2See1/useful stuff. You can have as many user subpages as you like...and indeed you can view all of them with a flashy bit of code that you might want to add to the top of this page, or your user page, or something;

Re. their comments on your talk page, yes, you could remove them - however, I would recommend, instead, you simply reply something like "This is a content issue, so please discuss it on [[talk:WHATEVER-ARTICLE]] instead. In addition to that, feel free to archive any old discussions from your talk page. If you'd like help in setting up automatic archiving, give me a shout; once your talk page is set up to have archives, you can easily just chop stuff that you have dealt with from your talk, and put it into the archive page(s), to 'clear the decks' without worrying that people might accuse you of removing things.

ARCHIVE: use notes

You can, of course, 'manually' archive things too, by simply cutting them from this page and posting them to the current archive. you have any trouble with it, give me a shout. Cheers, Chzz ► 01:19, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Now added; you'll see the block of code now at the top of this page. I set it to 30 days, which you can change - note the parameter |algo = old(30d) - feel free to change that, but be careful changing anything else 'coz it is quite picky.

It should kick in within 24 hours, you don't need to do anything else - and in fact, it's best to wait a day and let it 'do its thing'.

Worth noting, it will not archive very short threads, or anything that does not have a timestamp in it.

You can, of course, 'manually' archive things too, by simply cutting them from this page and posting them to the current archive. you have any trouble with it, give me a shout. Cheers, Chzz ► 01:19, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

(Chzz's help above used instead) -First, you must decide between User:ClueBot III and User:MiszaBot III. (The only major difference that I know of is that ClueBot runs continuously, while MiszaBot runs once a day.) Once you decide on one of the 'bots, you should go to its userpage, where both list directions on how to set up and configure archiving. Good luck. Xenon54 / talk / 20:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

TN/TLP: use notes

tn/tlp Use Guidelines
Re. "What do the tl and tlp acronyms mean"

There are several templates to allow you to 'cancel out' a template. If you put e.g. {{helpme}} here on this page, it will be 'live', and will alert helpers. When they process the request, they will change it to {{tn|helpme}} or {{tlp|helpme}} etc, to 'cancel it' - instead of then showing the large box "I am looking for help" etc, it will show like e.g. {{helpme}}.

I believe that 'tn' stands for 'template null'; 'tl' stands for 'template link' because it gives a link to the templates page of documentation.

'Tlp' is 'template link with parameters';

If somebody writes "{{helpme|How do I sign my name?}}" and, after helping them, it is changed to "{{tn|helpme|How do I sign my name?}}" it will only display as {{helpme}}|How do I sign my name? - the 'parameter' they used (viz. their question) will not display.

If, however, it is changed to "{{tlp|helpme|How do I sign my name?}}" it will display the 'parameter', ie {{helpme|How do I sign my name?}}.

I hope this clarifies. Chzz ► 19:09, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

COLOR SIG: use notes

Re. sig, date/time should automatically be added, once you use it within your 'signature' in preferences.

UNSOURCED TEMPLATE: use notes

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