Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources/Shortcut/doc

Usage

A shortcut template is similar to the {{anchor}} template, but it adds a visual box graphic on the rendered page with a pin emoji (📌), as well as providing an alternative name. Creating a redirect page is a requirement to fulfill the shortcut mechanism.

Usage

This template can only be used on Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources.

1. Insert the shortcut template.
2. Create a redirect page with the {{R from shortcut}} template suffixed to the redirect. Name the page after your shortcut name. Include the namespace name in both the shortcut name and the redirect page name. For example, substitute your own shortcut name as the title of the page, and substitute the proper namespace, then add the REDIRECT as the top-line on your redirect page, and the category to the third line of the redirect:

   #REDIRECT [[Namespace:Title of page with#Optional very long section name]]

{{R from shortcut}}

3. Verify operation. Note that shortcut templates should display in all capitals, but operate without all capitals.

Notes Shortcuts are used mainly on user pages and talk pages in reference to the Wikipedia, Help, and Portal namespaces. These templates inform about the shortcuts available to the page they are on. For example, WP:SHORT redirects to Wikipedia:Shortcut and therefore, Wikipedia:Shortcut renders a shortcut box listing WP:SHORT. It is a self-reference that is normally avoided in the main article namespace.

The point of these templates is not to list every single redirect to an entry on this page (that's what Special:WhatLinksHere is for). Instead, they should list the most common and easily remembered redirects.

This template inserts a linefeed before the box. It is intended to be used immediately following the Wikilink to the article for the source in the first column.

Parameters

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources/Shortcut takes the following parameters:

• 1... - the shortcut link (without brackets).

Example

Code	Result
{{/Shortcut|WP:FORBES}}	WP:FORBES 📌

Anchors

These templates automatically add an anchor for each shortcut name parameter. For example, if a shortcut box with the shortcut WP:SHORT is placed on the page Wikipedia:Shortcut, then the link Wikipedia:Shortcut#WP:SHORT will take you to the position in the page where that shortcut box is placed.

Examples: #WP:SHORT, and MOS:MATH#TONE

This makes it easier to create a shortcut for a section of a page, because you can refer to the anchor when creating the shortcut redirect itself. Like this:

#REDIRECT [[Pagename#WP:SHORT]] {{R from shortcut}}