Categories edit

Copy-editing edit

  • {{Inuse}} -- "a major edit for a short while"
  • {{GOCEinuse}} -- more than one session
  • {{GOCEdone|Alarob}} -- on talk page when done

Citing sources edit

References edit

  • Footnotes
  • Footnote: <ref>FootnoteText</ref>
  • Multiple use: <ref name="name">FirstRef</ref>{{rp|10-11}}   <ref name="name"/ >{{rp|11-12}}
  • References section: <references /> or {{reflist}}

Citation templates edit

  • Don’t forget {{reflist|30em}}

{{Citation }} template edit

  • N.B. {{cite}} is deprecated. See {{Template:Citation}}
  • Variables are name/value pairs, where name is always l.c.: | name=value
  • Vars include first, last, authorlink (no brackets), coauthors, title, series, journal, volume, issue, date, location, etc.
  • Most text vars (but not authorlink) can be wlinks with square brackets
  • Link vars: url, doi, isbn, issn, jstor, etc.

Harvard references: {{sfn}} and {{Harv}} edit

Sfn (Short footnote) creates author-date footnotes linking to the references list.

  • {{sfn|Turner|1851|pp=10–11}} produces this note: 1. ^Turner 1851, pp. 10–11
    • Use either p= or pp=

Harv (Harvard reference) inserts parenthetical citations in the text. It supports multiple authors.

  • {{Harv|Adams|Brown|Collins|Davis|2001|pp=13-31}} produces (Adams et al. 2001, pp. 13-31)

Harvtxt is for direct reference to a work in the text.

  • {{Harvtxt|Turner|1851}} asserted that....
  • Turner (1851) asserted that....

Harvnb is for direct reference without brackets or parens.

  • {{Harvnb|Turner|1851}}, not to be confused with....
  • Turner 1851, not to be confused with....

Did you know? edit

DYK is only for articles that have been created within the last 5 days. Ideally, they should have been listed on "New Pages" during that time, but former redirects, stubs, or other short articles that have been greatly expanded are also encouraged (as a guideline, an expansion of five-fold or more is acceptable; the decision on whether an expanded article is appropriate for the template will depend on the updating administrator's judgment). For those workpages first developed in user space, the date the workpage is posted to article namespace may be counted as the first day towards the DYK 5 day rule. You may wish to consider adding {{workpage}} to the top of the workpage.

Pictures edit

  • Picture tutorial
  • Variables:
    • Image:(filename) [[Image:Picture.png|
    • |thumb creates framed, right-floating thumbnail
    • |(caption) always comes last; may be omitted
    • |NNNpx to specify width; optional
    • |right to float picture right within text
    • |left to float left
    • |none to suppress text wrapping and interrupt page flow
    • |frame draws frame around picture and caption (if present)
  • To stack pictures:

<div style="float:right;width:315px;"> [[1stimage]] [[2ndimage]] </div>

  • Div should be 20px wider than widest image.
  • Alternate left and right images:

[[Image:image.png|thumb|150px|right|Caption]] [[Image:Image2.svg|left|thumb|150px|Caption]]

Icons edit

  • Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
  • Comment & vote symbols:
  •   [[Image:Start-class-circle.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol comment.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol confirmed.svg|20px]]‎
  •   [[Image:Symbol declined.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol neutral vote.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol possible vote.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol unrelated.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Symbol wtf vote.svg|20px]]
  •   [[Image:Time2wait.svg|20px]]
  • Wikimedia icons:
  •   [[Image:Wiki letter w.svg|44px]]
  • Ambox icons
  • Nuvola icons:
  •   [[Image:Nuvola apps important.svg|25px]]
  •   [[Image:Nuvola apps krec.png|22px]]
  • And so on:
  •   {{User:Topaz/sym-check}}
  •   [[Image:School.svg|25px]]

Templates edit

Advice edit

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{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=
{{FirstProjectBanner|nested=yes}}
{{SecondProjectBanner|nested=yes}}
{{ThirdProjectBanner|nested=yes}}
}}
Other flags: |blp=yes, |activepol=yes

Cleanup templates edit

   {{Multiple issues|
   {{POV|date=January 2009}}
   {{context|date=February 2009}}
   }}

Needs historical information edit

The HISTINFO template was deleted December 2017. In its place, use one of these:

  • {{Recentism | section | date=date}}
  • {{Expand section | 1=with more examples and source citations | with=more examples and source citations | for=reason | section=(number of the section after TOC, for editing link) | date=date | small=no | talksection=talksection}}
  • {{Missing information | section | description | talksection=talksection | date=date}}
  • Deprecated: {{Incomplete | section | reason=reason}}

Disambiguation edit

Naming: When there is no primary topic, a dab page should be called Topic, not Topic (disambiguation)

Linking: When deliberately linking to a dab page, always link to [[Topic (disambiguation]], whether or not the article actually includes (disambiguation) in its title.

This prevents the link from appearing as an error needing to be bot-fixed. It also lets attentive readers know that the link will take them to a disambiguation page. The policy is at WP:INTDABLINK.

Hatnotes edit

WP:DAB#Hatnotes

Dab pages edit

  • {{disambig}} at bottom of most pages
  • {{hndis|Name}} for bottom of a personal name dab page
  • {{Geodis}} at bottom of a geographical dab page

Inline templates edit

Maintenance templates edit

  • {{Increation}} for new article; {{Inuse}} for active editing; {{Underconstruction}} invites collaborators.
  • Maintenance templates

Prods edit

Shared IP header templates edit

  • {{SharedIP|organization}} for generic shared IP addresses.
    • {{ISP|ISPname}} for commercial ISPs.
    • {{MobileIP}} for mobile phone addresses.
    • {{SharedIPEDU|institution}} for schools.
    • {{SharedIPCERT|institution}} for schools known to use proxy servers.
    • {{SharedIPPublic|organization}} for public terminals (e.g., libraries).
    • {{SharedIP US military|organization}} for U.S. military installations.
  • {{DynamicIP|organization}} for prolix version.
  • Address will be added to the category Shared IP addresses.
  • Add variable |host=hostserver if you want.
  • Also see Category:User talk header templates

Stubs edit

  • Most useful: {{Alabama-stub}} {{alabama-geo-stub}} {{Alabama-road-stub}} {{Alabama-struct-stub}} {{Austria-stub}} {{austria-geo-stub}} {{GeorgiaUS-geo-stub}} {{hist-book-stub}} {{NorthAm-native-stub}} {{Switzerland-stub}} {{Switzerland-bio-stub}}
  • Stub types

Talk archives edit

{{archive box|
* [[/Archive 1|TITLE]]
}}

On the archive page:

  • {{atnhead}} at top of page
  • {{talkarchive}} at bottom

Talk page templates edit

{{talkheader}}
{{controversial}}
{{histinfo|IDEAS}}
{{Project Vienna}}
{{translated page
  |source language code
  |source page title
  |version=123456789
  |insertversion=987654321
  |section=name
}}
{{unsigned|name|timedate}}
{{unsignedIP|name|timedate}}

Top icons edit

Informative icons can be installed in the topbar of pages (top right).

Standard options:

  • sortkey = Allows ordering the icons according to the sortkey given.
  • width = Uses a different width for the images. Default is 20.
  • height = Uses a different height for the images. Default is 20.
  • usercat = Adds a category to be added in userspace.
  • maincat = Adds a category to be added in article mainspace.
  • subpage = For categorization on subpages (default = no).
  • nocat = Disables the automatically added category (default = no).

Translations edit

  • {{Translated|de|Title}}

User notices & warnings edit

Scripts edit

Stats edit

Miscellaneous edit

The basics edit

What Wikipedia is not edit

The Wikipedia community is not: edit