User:Rev-san/Wikipedia cheatsheet
Tables
[edit]- online MediaWiki table editor: tablesgenerator.com
Referencing, citation, archival
[edit]List-defined references (LDR), with optional notes
[edit]- At the article's top, use:
{{Use list-defined references|date=August 2022}}
- In the article's body, use:
Some sentence that needs references.{{r|SomeName 2000|p=10}}{{efn|name=a}} Another sentence that needs references.{{r|OtherName 2001|pp=11–12}}{{efn|name=b}}
- In the (optional) Notes section, use:
{{notelist|refs= {{efn|name=a|Some explanatory note.}} {{efn|name=b|Another explanatory note.}} }}
- In the References section, use:
{{reflist|refs= {{r|SomeName 2000|r=cite template}} {{r|OtherName 2001|r=cite template}} }}
Citation templates
[edit]- Without archive links:
{{cite web |last= |first= |date= |title= |trans-title= |url= |via= |website= |language= |publisher= |accessdate=}}
{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date= |department= |title= |trans-title= |page= |url= |via= |language= |magazine= |publisher= |access-date= |isbn= |issn=}}
{{cite episode |last= |first= |date= |series= |number= |title= |trans-title= |time= |url= |via= |language= |station= |network= |access-date=}}
- With archive links:
{{cite web |last= |first= |date= |title= |trans-title= |url= |via= |website= |language= |publisher= |accessdate= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=}}
{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date= |department= |title= |trans-title= |page= |url= |via= |language= |magazine= |publisher= |access-date= |isbn= |issn= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=}}
{{cite episode |last= |first= |date= |series= |number= |title= |trans-title= |time= |url= |via= |language= |station= |network= |access-date= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=}}
The url-status
parameter can be either live
, dead
, deviated
, usurped
or unfit
. access-date
refers to the original URL in the url
parameter.
- For Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) links, use the
if_
iframe flag in the URL to remove the navigational toolbar:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130806040521if_/http://faq.web.archive.org/page-without-wayback-code/
instead of
https://web.archive.org/web/20130806040521/http://faq.web.archive.org/page-without-wayback-code/
Archival sites
[edit]The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org
Archive.today (aka Archive.is): https://archive.today (redirects to the best available mirror)
Other useful templates
[edit]- To use the day-month-year format and force CS1 citation templates to use DMY:
{{Use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ls}}