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User:Goodtiming8871/Cheatsheet

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This section below could be automatically updated as per the user:Mortee's efforts on Wikipedia.

  • Guide for the new article : [[1]]
  • Additional guide
  • Because rollback only takes a single click, without asking for confirmation, even experienced users may sometimes accidentally click rollback when attempting to click somewhere else. If this occurs, simply revert your edit manually, with an edit summary like "Self-revert accidental use of rollback"


See also: Help:Cheatsheet and Wikipedia:Tip of the day

Referencing edit 

{{Reflist|refs=
* <ref name="refname1">content1</ref>
* <ref name="refname2">content2</ref>
}}
  • {{r|reference name}} → <ref name="reference name" />
  • {{sfn}} – for referencing different pages within one work through an article
  • |ref=harv – within a {{cite book}} or similar, to make {{sfn}} work
  • {{rp|188}} → : 188  – for in-line page numbers next to references
  • {{cite encyclopedia}} – for citing papers/chapters within an edited collection
  • {{cita news}} – to make Spanish or Italian news refs work without having to translate parameters. {{literatur}} for German. There are a few others.
  • {{citar web}} – ditto for Portuguese web references. {{lien web}} for French web references. There are a few others.
  • {{reflist-talk}} – for reference sections within a talk page
  • {{refbegin|indent=y}} and {{refend}} – format lists of works below references

Links edit

Random markup edit

See also: User:Sam Sailor/Boilerplates/Templates and Category:Wikipedia formatting and function templates
  • {{tildes}} → ~~~~
  • {{od|::::::::}} → 
  • {{od|8}} → 
  • {{tq|quoted text}} → quoted text
  • {{redacted}} → (Redacted)
  • {{redacted|identifying information}} → (Redacted) (this changes the hover-over text)
  • {{para|attribute}} → |attribute=
  • {{para|attribute|value}} → |attribute=value
  • {{hlist|one|two|three}} → 
    • one
    • two
    • three
  • {{pb}} – to put a visual paragraph break in a list or similar without confusing screen readers
  • {{ec}} → (edit conflict)
  • {{tps}} → (talk page stalker)
  • {{tps|g}} → (talk page gnome)
  • {{Non-admin comment}} → (Non-administrator comment)
  • {{lag|article}} → Article (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs|google)
  • {{=}} → = (as an escape character)
  • {{!}} → | (as an escape character)
  • {{not a typo}}
  • {{sic}} →  [sic]
  • {{lit}} → lit. = {{literal translation}}
  • Columns: {{div col}} and {{div col end}} for easy columns; {{col-begin}}, {{col-break}} and {{col-end}} for manual control
  • {{unsigned}} but always subst: {{subst:unsigned|Mortee|12:00, 31 December 2049 (UTC)}} → — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mortee (talk • contribs) 12:00, 31 December 2049 (UTC)
  • {{convert|3|ft|m}} → 3 feet (0.91 m)
    • |abbr=on → 3 ft (0.91 m)
    • |adj=on → 3-foot (0.91 m)
    • {{convert|3|ft|2+3/8|in|m}} → 3 feet 2+3⁄8 inches (0.975 m)
  • {{frac|2|3}} → 2⁄3
  • {{frac|1|2|3}} → 1+2⁄3
  • {{sfrac|2|3}} → 2/3
  • {{sfrac|1|2|3}} → 1+2/3
  • <!-- comments in the Wiki markup, not visible to readers -->
  • For lists in infoboxes etc, without visible bullet points:
{{Plainlist|
* Item
* Item
}}
  • To collapse WikiProject templates together:
{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=
  {{WikiProject History|class=|importance=}}
  {{WikiProject Scotland|class=|importance=}}
}}
<center>
  <gallery mode=packed>
    File:some image.jpg|description|alt=description for the blind
    File:another image.jpg|description|alt=description for the blind
  </gallery>
</center>
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Tools edit

User stats edit

Quicklinks edit

See also: User:Mortee/To Do § Sources of work, WP:Glossary, and Help:Special page

Policy, guidelines and canon essays edit

See also: Wikipedia:Principles, Policy in the key of C, and WP:Wikipedia abbreviations

Templates edit

Maintenance templates edit

For all these, add the current date with |date=May 2024. For many, you can and should explain why you're adding it using |reason=.

Inline edit

See also: Template:inline cleanup tags

Maintenance templates edit

User-space templates edit

Main page: Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
See also: User warnings category, Single-level notices, and Multi-level notices

(Easiest to use Twinkle for most of these)

Welcome edit

Warning edit

Notification edit

Misc edit

  • {{db-u1}} – request deletion of a page of your own
  • {{uw-selfrevert|pagename|additional text}} ~~~~ – to thank a user for reverting their own mistake

Images and symbols edit

See also: Category:Single-image insertion templates, Category:Image with comment templates, and Template:Done/See also

Icons edit

Main page: Template:Icon
  • {{icon|AA}} →  
  • {{icon|DYK1}} →   Q
  • {{icon|DYK2}} →  

Templates edit

With the exception of {{later}}, all of the templates below with bold wording attached allow a customised message as the second parameter. For some reason, {{warnsign}} and {{partly done}} capitalise the first letter of your message. The others don't. You can't set specify text, though; it will become an apostrophe (except for {{idea}}, which always adds a colon after whatever text you write).

Smileys edit

Main page: Template:Smiley

Families edit

Direct invocation edit

Image Markup
  [[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]]
  [[File:Information_orange.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]]
  |[[File:Ambox warning pn.svg|25px|alt=Warning icon]]
  [[File:Stop_hand_nuvola.svg|25px|alt=Stop hand]]

Misc edit

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