User:Katherine/WP-links

A directory of links to frequently-used Wikipedia project pages. I have created this directory to save me having to hunt through search pages and bookmarks.

Infoboxes

• Schools
• {{Infobox settlement}} - Standard infobox template for most types of settlements like cities, towns, villages, etc. To use it, copy the format located at Template:Infobox settlement and substitute the settlement's information in the parameters section as directed on the Infobox template page. See San Jose, California for an example.
• {{Infobox Australian place}} - Australian variation of the standard infobox.

Note: The Indian Jurisdiction infobox is up for deletion. Do not use.

Template guide

Reference list of frequently-used templates, including a summary of their content.

Templates

Template name	Usage	Reason	Message summary
Uw-badlistentry	{{subst:uw-badlistentry|Article|Additional text}} ~~~~	User adds redlink to list	Names & orgs added to lists should have an article. Only create one if notable.
Uw-articlesig	{{subst:uw-articlesig|Article}} ~~~~	Adding name or sig to article	Hello, thanks for contribs, please don't sign articles, edit history shows attribution
Uw-spam2	(Twinkle)	2nd warning, spam and other WP:ELNO	Please don't add, see WP:EL and WP:SPAM
Uw-error1	(Twinkle)	1st warn, deliberate factual errors	Your edit added incorrect info, must be WP:V and WP:RS, don't add without cite
Uw-talkinarticle	(Twinkle)	Single-issue notice, talk/commentary in article space	Thanks for contribs, noticed commentary, please use talk page, quick summary of talk guidelines.
Gutenberg	(external links)	Template to link to books at Project Gutenberg	Example: {{Gutenberg|no=2383|name=The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems}}
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Reference guide

Links to references which have proven useful in wikifying dead-end pages and other tidy-up tasks.

NSW state records

• Indexes Online - index of records (need to go to reading room at Kingswood for these)

Places

• US Geographic Names Information System - information about physical and cultural geographic features of all types in the United States, associated areas, and Antarctica, current and historical, but not including roads and highways.

• US Hometown Locator - profiles, maps, data, and directions for US cities, towns, neighborhoods, subdivisions, physical, cultural and historical features.

Manual of style

Sections of the Wikipedia Manual of Style to which I frequently refer. Includes a brief summary of the page or section content, where useful. Most of these summaries are my own interpretation of the MOS, and should not be taken as a Wikipedia guideline or policy.

WP:HEAD

Section headings

• Headings should not normally contain links (do as I say, not as I do?)

• Capitalise the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest in lower case

• Style markup:

== Primary heading ==

=== Sub heading ===

==== Sub sub heading ====

• A blank line below the heading is optional; but do include one blank line above the heading, for readability in the edit window.

• If the topic of a section is also covered in a dedicated article, show this by inserting {{main|Article name}} directly under the section heading.

WP:MOSCAPS

Offices, positions, and job titles

• Positions and titles are common nouns, and should only be capitalised when they form part of a person's name.

Usage examples: Prime Minister Gillard - Louis XVI was King of France

La Gillardine is the prime minister of Australia - A monarchy has a king or queen as its head of state

Religions, deities, and philosophies

• Names of organised religions take a capital letter, whether used as a noun or adjective. Islam, Catholicism, Pentecostal

• Unofficial movements and ideologies within religions do not take a cap. evangelical, fundamentalist

WP:MOSABBR

Acronyms in article titles

• Name the page for the acronym is that is the most usual and common name. NASA, radar
• Use redirects and disambiguation pages where confusion exists.

Acronyms in article body

• Do not apply initial caps to common nouns even when forming an acronym. AutoCad is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool...'
• Use the full name as the first reference, and give the acronym as an alternative. Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)
• Generally avoid full stops in acronyms, but more importantly be consistent.

Special considerations

In normal text:

• Texas, not TX. New South Wales, not NSW

Unless an official name or registered trademark:

• Mount or Mountain, not Mt

WP:MOSDAB

Disambiguation pages

Top of the page

• Definitions - cross-link to Wiktionary. {{wiktionary pipe|WORD|optional display name}} – without parameters, defaults to using the current page's name. Check the links as Wiktionary titles are case-sensitive on the first letter, using proper caps for its entries.

• When a page has "(disambiguation)" in its title – i.e., it is the disambiguation page for a term that has a WP:primary topic, link back to the primary topic:

A school is an institution for learning. School may also refer to: School (discipline) or school of thought, a number of individuals with shared styles, approaches or aims School (fish), a group of fish swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner . . .

• Intro line - The term being disambiguated should be in bold (not italics). It should begin a sentence fragment ending with a colon, introducing a bulleted list. Examples:

Interval may refer to:

John Smith is the name of:

ABC may stand for:

Arc or ARC may refer to:

Don't include minor variants. ( AU may refer to ) is better than ( AU or au or Au may refer to ).

Individual entries

• Preface each entry with a bullet (an asterisk in wiki markup)
• Start each entry with a capital letter (unless it begins with a link to an article marked with {{lowercase}}, like eBay)
• Entries should nearly always be sentence fragments, with no final punctuation (commas, full stops, semicolons, etc.)
• Each entry should have exactly one navigable link to guide readers to the most relevant article for that use term - do not wikilink any other words in the line

Dark Star (song), by the Grateful Dead NOT Dark Star (song), by the Grateful Dead

• Keep the description to a minimum, just enough to determine the subject
• Usually the title is at the start of the line, and displayed in full (not piped unless formatting needed, such as for book and movie titles in italics)
• Dab pages shouldn't have all red links, or only one blue link
• Never include external links
• No references - incorporate them into the article

People

• Include birth and death year if known, and just enough descriptor to distinguish between people:

• John Adams (composer) (born 1947), American composer who came to prominence with his opera Nixon in China
• John Adams (physicist) (1920–1984), Director General of CERN and particle accelerator designer
• John Adams (martyr) (died 1586), Catholic priest and martyr under Elizabeth I of England

Places

• Just the name of the article may be enough (Jacksonville, Florida; Jacksonville, Alabama)
• It may be appropriate to add the country after the link. Leave the country unlinked. (Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom; Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada

Redlinks

(See also MOS:DABRL)

• Only retain redlinks if they are linked to by an article (check What links here)

• If the only pages that use the red link are disambiguation pages, do one of the following:

• Unlink the entry word but still keep a blue link in the description. Red links should not be the only link in a given entry; link also to an existing article, so that a reader (as opposed to a contributing editor) will have somewhere to navigate to for additional information. The linked article should contain some meaningful information about the term.

• Start a new article for the red link, using the description on the disambiguation page.

• Make a redirect to a page where the item is described (see Piping and redirects above).

Organisation

• Primary subject at the top

• Split long dab pages into sections

• Use a See also section for likely misspellings, different forms, confused terms (Newtown, New Town)

End of the page

The usual template to use is {{[/wiki/Template:Disambig disambig]}}, which produces a general disambiguation notice, and places the page in Category:Disambiguation pages. Parameters can be added to place the page additionally into other more specific disambiguation categories. For example, if a page includes multiple places and multiple people with the same surname (and possibly other items), use {{[/wiki/Template:Disambig disambig]|geo|surname}}. A full list of available parameters and their corresponding categories can be found in the {{[/wiki/Template:Disambig disambig]}} template documentation. See also:

• WP:Disambiguation dos and don'ts
• WP:Disambiguation pages with links