User:Twang/Editing

General Wikitext (markup) help here.

Anomalous dictations

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Template page

• Wikipedia:NOR, Wikipedia:NOTOR
• Wikipedia:Notability

Note to self: if ('notable' === one episode of the Simpsons) {codHelpUs==1}

• Wikipedia:Synthesis

Redirects, Hatnotes

Redirects are aliases to existing pages. Keeps people from coming up empty in a search, especially for hard-to-spell names, and for subjects that are adequately covered as sub-topics.

• Example:
  
  • #redirect [[Bering land bridge]]

Hatnotes are placed at the top of an article to help readers locate a different article they might be looking for.

• One example: the template
  
  • {{About|USE1||PAGE2}} will produce the text:

This page is about USE1. For other uses, see PAGE2.

• Another example: Differentiate one person/thing from another:
  • {{For|describe other topic|Second article}}} produces:

For describes other topic, see Second article.

See the Hatnote Help for more examples.

Piping links

Help article: Help:Link.
This is an example of a 'piped' link allowing use of a link-label different from an article title. (This one points to the article 'Help:Piped link'.)

* Piping allows creating '''links to other sections''' of the same article.
The general format is [[#Section name | link label]]. The '#' character links to the current article.
For example this link links to the section above this one (Redirect).
* Linking to image file pages *without* including the image itself CAN be accomplished by adding a colon before the URL: [:File:Mississippiriver-new-01.png|Mississippi River Basin map]]

The font-of-all-link-wisdom is here: Help:Link#Wikilinks

Referencing/Citing

For 'help' see:

• Wikipedia:Footnotes;
• Wikipedia:Citing_sources;
• simpler: see Help:Footnotes;
• simplest: see Aaaaaarrrrrrgh!!

Reference tool: refToolbar.js

Single reference

Steps:

1 Install cite inline: <ref>(whatever)</ref>

2 Create Notes/References section ( if not present). Below the section header, place: <references/>

Examples

ref with internal link:

• <ref>[http://url.goes.here Description of link] Further details not part of link</ref>

WP author link inside REF, with link to external summary & ISBN (auto-linked):

• <ref>[[Richard_Rhodes]] (1995). [http://mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/rr_darksun.html Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb]. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80400-X</ref>

DOI: Simple link to: {{doi|10.3133/pp65}}

Inside a template, add line: (e.g.)

| doi = 10.1146/annurev.earth.33.092203.122621

Multiple references

<ref name="name"> allows multiple uses of same footnote;

1 first use: <ref name="example">Citation text</ref>

2 subsequent use: <ref name="example"/> (note the '/')

Nb: Only use named reference when all details (including page number(s)) are identical.

3 in Notes/References section, place: <references/>.

For multiple page numbers from the same source, use indirect citing, eg. <ref>Jones, 1963, p.10</ref>.

(Requires manual placement of general reference in Note/References section. See: Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Shortened_footnotes)

For cases where VERY MANY pages of the same source are cited, the {{rp}} (short for "reference pages") 'extension' template is available as an alternative. Not recommended for frequent use, but cuts down on References section clutter.

E.g. First reference: <ref name="aardvark">... details of cited source ...</ref>{{rp|23}}

Second reference: <ref name="aardvark" />{{rp|56}}

Reference columns

{{Reflist|2}} and {{Reflist|3}} create 2- and 3-column reference lists

At present only Gecko browsers support reflist columns.

Using {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}} lets the browser choose the number of columns

See: Template:Reflist

Grouped references

For each cite/note to include in a group, use <ref group="groupname"> or {{Reflist|group="groupname"}}

Then, for example, at foot use:
== Grouped references section title ==
<references group="groupname" />
More detail here

Explanatory footnotes

To move some details in text into a separate footnotes section.
(For reference see: Help:Footnotes#Footnotes:_predefined_groups )
Replace the text with a EFN marker:
{{efn|Text to be shown in footnote. }}

Create a footnotes section (if needed) with:

== Notes ==
{{notelist}} 

Ways to whine about citations

• {{Fact}} or {{cn}} produce the ubiquitous [Citations needed] warning.
• {{Citations missing}} for articles that cite some sources, but insufficiently.
  (Alternately, {{Refimprove|date=}}
• {{Unreferenced}} for articles that cite NO sources.
• {{No footnotes|date=Month Year}} for articles with references but NO inline cites.
• {{more references}} for articles that need MORE inline cites.

{{More footnotes}}

More ways here: Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles)

Also see: Wikipedia:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT, Wikipedia:Verifiability,
and in particular the satisfyingly near-duplicate list of cleanup messages at Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup#Verifiability_and_sources.

To request verification that a reference supports the text, tag it with . Someone may stumble upon it one day.

Dead or restricted links and similar horrors

Wayback links: example

Note additional archive fields in this citation example.

{{citation |url=http://www.wikipedia.org/ |title=Wikipedia Main Page |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020930123525/http://www.wikipedia.org/ |archivedate=2002-09-30 |accessdate=2005-07-06 }}

Outside citations there is a {{Wayback}} template. See: Help:Using the Wayback Machine

Not-dead but restricted links

Visit Template:Dead_link#See_also
for other options.

EG: {{Closed access}} and {{Open access}}, {{Dead YouTube link}}, {{Registration required}} aka {{regreq}}, {{Subscription or libraries}}, for when a subscription or library access may be required, {{Subscription required}} aka {{subreq}}

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates
Use:{{coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=title}}

For decimal coordinates, such as 44.112°N 86.913°W, use one of
{{coord|44.112|N|87.913|W|display=title}}
{{coord|44.112|-87.913|display=title}}

(display=title param puts coords near the top ... else they're inline)

To add an alternate map name/label (replaces article title; especially useful if title creates a problem ... with Google Maps for example): use the optional name parameter; e.g.

{{coord|44|-87|display=title|name=your label}}

Dead links

Markup

• [http://example.org/ Link title] {{dead link}}

• {{cite web |url=http://example.org |title=title |accessdate=2000-01-01 }} {{dead link |date=November 2008 }}

• <ref>{{cite web |url=http://example.org |title=title |accessdate=2000-01-01 }}</ref>{{dead link |date=November 2008 }}

Dept. of Resurrection

• Very often, Wayback Machine is the weapon of choice. While Wiki was once lithic, today there's help for that: Help:Using the Wayback Machine.

Resurrections, revivifications: do appropriate ritual burnings, obeisances, genuflections and gesticulations here.

• Jason Scott

Other catacombs of dubious repute: InternetArchaeology.org, reocities.

Odds &ends

>>> Special Templates <<<

• {{main|title of ''Main Article'' goes here}}

>>>

Something is confusing / needs clarification

To ask for clarification for a particular phrase or sentence, simply type {{clarify}} or {{what}}

To ask for clarification for a particular section, simply type {{Confusing|section}} at the top of the section

For more, see: Wikipedia:Please_clarify

Article has multiple issues see Template:Article_issues

Miscellaneous

• Straight line across a page: 4 dashes

---

• Italics - Enclose in 2 single-quotes
• Bold - Enclose in 3 single-quotes

• wiki literal = <nowiki>text</nowiki>
• Commenting-out some text: use HTML commenting: <!-- text -->

• Births category example: [[Category: 1910 births|Surname, First Middle]]

• A leading semicolon makes a line a subhead

• Put a colon in front of a Category link to make it into a page link.
  E.g. [[:Category:Railway_stations_in_India]] creates Category:Railway_stations_in_India.
  In some cases a category can be a useful "see also". The page the link is on does not appear on the Category page.

Columns

start {{col-begin}};

head each column {{col-n}}(where n=total#cols ... not the column #)

end with {{col-end}}