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Policy & discussions

Ignore all rules

• Ignore all rules: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it."

  The List of policies interprets this as, "Any policy, guideline or other rule may be ignored if it hinders improving Wikipedia."

Be bold

• Be bold: "Be bold ... but ... not too bold."
• Be bold, revert, discuss (WP:BRD) gambit.

Challenging another's edit

• When challenging another user's edits, "Any editor has the right to challenge unsourced material by opening a discussion on the talk page or by tagging it. Material that should be removed without discussion includes contentious material about a living person, clear examples of original research, and anything that is ludicrous or damaging to the project."
  • To tag inline material in need of referencing, use:

    {{Citation needed|date=Month YYYY}}

• For behaviour issues, WP:ANI - but try WP:DR first.

Notability etc

• WP:GNG
• WP:ONUS
• WP:REMOVAL

Referencing a diff

To copy the URL for the diff, right-click on its (prev) button and select "Copy link location".

Alternatively, while you are viewing the diff, copy its URL from the address bar. This is the only way for a series of edits.

Animated images

To stop an animation, make it a thumbnail.

See MOS:ACCESS#Animations, videos and audio.

To be accessible, an animation (GIF – Graphics Interchange Format) should either:

• not exceed a duration of five seconds (which results in making it a purely decorative element), or
• be equipped with control functions (stop, pause, play).

In short, most animated GIFs should be converted to video (to learn how, see the tutorial converting animated GIFs to Theora OGG).

Move requests

Requesting a single page move

Click the "New Section" tab on the talk page and insert

 {{subst:RMtalk|Proposed new name|Reason for move.}}

Requesting multiple page moves

Up to 30 related moves may be requested at once, using a single template. On one of the talk pages of the affected articles, create a request and format it as below. A sample request for two page moves is shown here. For three page moves, add lines for current3 and new3, following this pattern. This template does not work properly with some titles - if you have trouble, eliminate the current1 line and start with new1.

==Requested move==
{{subst:move-multi
| current1 = Current title of page 1 with the talk page hosting this discussion
| new1 = New title for page 1
| current2 = Current title of page 2
| new2 = New title for page 2
| reason = Place here your rationale for the proposed page name change, ideally referring to applicable naming convention policies and guidelines, 
and providing evidence in support where appropriate. If your reasoning includes search engine results, please default to Google Books or Google 
News Archive before providing any web results. Do not sign this.
}}

RMCD bot automatically places a notice section on the talk page of the additional pages that are included in your request.

Closing the discussion

{{subst:RM top|'''result of the discussion'''.}}
discussion content
{{subst:RM bottom}}

Admin stuff

• Keep an eye on Pending changes in case it resurrects (and I keep my Reviewer status).
  • Wikipedia:Reviewing process for Pending changes.
  • {{User wikipedia/Reviewer}} – Userbox to show reviewer status
  • {{Reviewer topicon}} – Topicon to show reviewer status
• Requests for permissions
  • WP:RFP/R - Requests for rollback privilege.

Off-wiki resources

• http://stats.grok.se

References

Need to check out differences between {{reflist}} and <references />

Multiple references

To a document not in bibliography

To add multiple references to a single source, do:

<ref name=MyRefName>Referenced document or web page</ref>

then subsequently just do:

<ref name=MyRefName/>

To a document in the bibliography

1. For the doc citation use ref=harv
2. For the inline cite use {{sfn | last name(s) of author(s) | year | p=page number or pp=page range or loc=other location }} .

For more, see Template:sfn

Lack of references

Useful info

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources

Banners

• {{Refimprove|{{subst:DATE}}}} - see template:Refimprove/doc for full usage.
• {{no footnotes|date=Month YYYY}}

Inline citations

• {{citation needed|date=Month YYYY|reason=say why}}

Inline citations

Per WP:CITEDENSE:

• Wikipedia does not have a "one inline citation per sentence" or "one citation per paragraph" rule, even for featured articles.
• Some sections (e.g., dense technical subjects) may even require more than one inline citation per sentence. Other [sections] may not require any inline citations at all. (my bold)
• And re. the example it gives, Everything in that paragraph deals with the same, single subject from the same source and can therefore be supported by a single inline citation.

Misc formatting

Language locales

Use {{Use British English}}, or more generally Use [Language] English.

"Outdent" a discussion comment

When the indents get beyond a joke, to reduce indentation and add a little indicator line, do:

{{outdent|:::::...}}

where the number of colons gives the number of outdent steps.

Columns

Until CSS3 becomes more widespread, use:

<div class="columns-n">  <!-- n = number of columns, from 2 to 5 -->
<div class="column">     <!-- Column 1 -->
Column 1 content
</div>
<div class="column">     <!-- Column 2 -->
Column 2 content
</div>
...
<div class="column">     <!-- Column n -->
Column n content
</div>
</div>

Collapsible things

Tables, Nav frames and Nav boxes can all collapse:

Tables

See Help:Collapsing, Template:Navbar-collapsible

{| class="collapsible [collapsed]"
! colspan=n |[Heading] or {{Navbar-collapsible| [Heading] |{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}
|-
| Body of table here
|}

See also

• class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

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Nav frames

These are now deprecated. We should be using the mw-collapsible, mw-collapsed and mw-collapsible-content CSS classes instead.

See Wikipedia:NavFrame, Template:Navbar-navframe

<div class="NavFrame [collapsed]">
<div class="NavHead">[Heading] or {{Navbar-navframe|[Heading]|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}</div>
<div class="NavContent">
[content]
</div>
</div>

Expanded

This one should start out expanded:

Heading

content

Collapsed with navbar

And this one should start out collapsed:

Hopefully the v.d.e links will work when the code goes in a template.

Heading

content

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Nav boxes

See Template:Navbox/doc, Template:Navbar-header

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Prerequisites

• MediaWiki:Common.css - CSS styling
• MediaWiki:Common.js - javascript code
• Client browser is javascript enabled