User:Teblick

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I began editing and writing for Wikipedia in January 2014. As the titles below indicate, my primary interest is in Old-time radio. I am helping to expand Wikipedia's coverage of that genre in order to make more information about that era of entertainment available to the general public. I also spend much of my Wikipedia time on enhancing existing articles about radio, film, and television personalities of the past, particularly finding citations for under-cited articles.

My collection of links to Online Resources for Old-Time Radio Research is available for anyone who would like to use it.

I have created the following articles.

Articles about People[edit]

Southern Gospel music singers[edit]

Old-time radio people[edit]

Others[edit]

Articles about Radio Programs[edit]

Comedy[edit]

Drama[edit]

Music/variety[edit]

Mystery/detective[edit]

Soap opera[edit]

Western[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

Other[edit]

Articles about television programs[edit]

Lists of WP pages by topic[edit]

User:Teblick/Lists

Wikipedia's own resources on using WP[edit]

User:Teblick/Wikipedia Resources

Frequently used categories[edit]

User:Teblick/Categories

Index to Manual of Style[edit]

User:Teblick/Index to Manual of Style (work in progress)

Aids in patrolling new pages[edit]

User:Teblick/Links for New Page Patrol comments

Opportunities to improve WP[edit]

Tips of the Day[edit]

Displaying one page within another = Transclusion

Including the contents of a template page on a different page (by surrounding the page name with double braces, i.e. "{{}}" and leaving out the "Template:" prefix) is called transclusion.

This allows the other page to be automatically updated whenever the template page is updated.

Besides templates, pages in the following namespaces can be transcluded:

  • Category:
  • Help:
  • Portal:
  • User:
  • Wikipedia:

The only difference between transcluding these and templates is that you must include the prefix (followed by a colon) with the page's name inside the double braces.

Images also can be transcluded, but this is done using double square brackets instead of braces.

Here are some examples of transclusion:

{{Pic of the day}} · {{Help:Contents}} · [[Image:Wikipedia-logo.png]]

Read more:
Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}


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Using templates

Templates are a type of page that contain boilerplate text that is intended to be displayed on more than one page in Wikipedia.

This Tip of the day box is an example of a template (there are several versions actually), and besides being displayed here it is displayed on many userpages as well.

Template names start with the prefix "Template:" followed by the page name. The main version of the template you are reading right now is called "Template:totd".

To display a template on a page, go to the target page, click "edit", and add the template's name (with or without the prefix) surrounded by double curly brackets to the page's source text. (The text you see in the edit box when you click edit this page is called "source text", because it is a lot like programming code, which is called "source code").

Including a template on a page in this way is called "transclusion". Here's an example:

To include the Template:Philosophy topics, type this at the end of the philosophy article you wish to place it on::

{{Philosophy topics}}
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To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd-tomorrow}}
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