User:Peter Campbell/Useful stuff
Appearance
Templates & markup etc
[edit]- WP:TUSER templates for user messages and warnings
- {{subst:anon}} Welcome to Wikipedia - anon user (IP address)
- {{subst:welcome2}} Welcome to Wikipedia - new user
- ({{subst:test1}} {{subst:test2}} {{subst:test3}} {{subst:test4}}) Vandalism warnings
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- {{unreferencedsect}} Unreferenced section tag
- {{fact}} Citation needed: Looks like: [citation needed]
- {{Fact|date=February 2007}} Citation with date
- {{who}}) Attribution needed. Looks like: [who?])
- {{unsourced}} Puts a box in the article stating that sources are required.
- Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/00.00.00.00|00.00.00.00]] ([[User_Talk:00.00.00.00|talk]]) to last version by Username
- Wikipedia:Userboxes
- Referencing Userboxes {{subst: user nameofbox}}
- {{SectOR}} Original research or unverified claims warning box
- {{WPBiography|living=yes|class=|importance=}} Biography template for article talk pages
- <pre> </pre> Stops formatting of text too.
- <!-- comment text --> To add comment text within and article
- <br/> Force new line
- {{SubArticle|Windows Vista}} Subarticle template - put on Talk page of article
- {{see also|Results of the Victorian legislative election, 2006}} - put in article to show subarticle
- {{main|Victorian legislative election, 2006}} Put at start of subarticle to designate parent
- {{update}} Flag article for update needed
- [[Image:Kitesurf jump aerial.jpg|thumb|right|370px|Jumping.]] Image tag with sizing and positioning
- <big>Big text</big> Big text
- [[:w:en:User:Peter Campbell]] Add this to other wikis to reference Wikipedia user account
Box with a border: text in here
- {{db-userreq}} Requested for user subpage to be deleted by the user with whom it is associated.
- Wikipedia:Gallery tag for photo galleries
- Place the {{unsigned}} template on a talk page and requested pages when a user adds a comment and forgets to sign. (User:HagermanBot).
- <nowiki>text</nowiki> tags to prevent wiki markup language between them being read
Indented list
[edit]- ;Category name:indented text follows
- Looks like
- point 1
- point 2
Gallery syntax for images
[edit]The basic syntax is:
<gallery> Image:Wiki.png Image:Wiki.png|Captioned Image:Wiki.png Image:Wiki.png|[[Help:Contents/Links|Links]] can be put in captions. Image:Wiki.png Image:Wiki.png|Full [[MediaWiki]]<br />[[syntax]] may now be used… </gallery>
Handy images for warnings etc
[edit]Shortcuts
[edit]- WP:V Wikipedia:Verifiability
- WP:AIV Report vandalism page
- WP:EDIT Editing guidelines and Wiki markup
- WP:CITE Citation & reference information
- WP:AFD Articles for deletion
- Wp:npov Neutral point of view
- WP:Recentism Recentism syndrome (guideline)
- Wikipedia:The perfect article tenets
- WP:BIO Wikipedia:Notability (people) guideline
- WP:RS Wikipedia:Reliable sources
- WP:WEB Notable Web articles guidelines
- WP:Resolving disputes
- WP:COPYVIO Copyright violations policy
- WP:SPEEDY Criteria for speedy deletion
- WP:NOR No original research
- WP:STICK Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
- WP:EL External link guidelines
Unsigned edit ID example
[edit]{{subst:unsigned|user name|date}}
- user name
- name or IP of user who left comment
- date
- datestamp from edit history (remember to label it UTC)
Looks like: —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.121.179.186 (talk • contribs) .
General items
[edit]- User:Ambi/Useful Stuff Rebecca's "useful stuff"
- Editor reviews
- (#REDIRECT [[Wikipedia article to redirect to]]) Put this text on the page to be redirected
Some tips from User:ScottDavis's page
[edit]Good ways of increasing your edit count include
- Writing new articles for any red links (like this one) you find
- Fixing spelling, grammar and other common mistakes
- Fixing wiki syntax
- Disambiguating links to disambiguation pages
- Stub sorting
- Find a category you know something about, and improve all the articles in it
- Add categories to articles without any category
Press References
[edit]{{authoronlinesource2006|section=Month
| author=author name
| title=article title
| org=source (e.g. newspaper or journal)
| url=http://www.url.com/1.html
| date=Monday DD, YYYY }}
And update Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2006
Quotation template
[edit]{{cquote|Quoted text looks like this|20px|20px|[[Bill Thompson]]| [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4534712.stm What is it with Wikipedia?]}}
“ | Quoted text looks like this | ” |
— Bill Thompson, What is it with Wikipedia? |
Links to other wikis
[edit]- See [[:Wikipedia:User:Peter Campbell]] Link to Wikipedia user page (to put on user page of other wikis)
Simple table markup
[edit]{| |- ! header 1 ! header 2 ! header 3 |- | row 1, cell 1 | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 |- | row 2, cell 1 | row 2, cell 2 | row 2, cell 3 |}