User:PointyOintment/shortcuts
This page lists other pages that I find helpful to refer to in my editing. You might find them helpful too.
Wiki editing references[edit]
- Cheatsheet – Not that useful for me; I'm usually looking up how to do more advanced stuff.
- Wikitext – The one I usually want. How to do just about everything.
- Template – Reference for creation, editing, and usage of templates.
- Help navbox
- Manual of Style navbox
Templates[edit]
- WikiProject Templates
- Template messages (navbox of)
- For articles & article talk pages
- General – disambiguation, redirection, section main article hatnotes, footnotes & references, time-related, title technical, special character notices, expansion requests
- Explanatory footnotes (not mentioned in that list)
- Citations (category of) – templates for citing various kinds of media
- Cleanup (navbox of inline ones) – organized by topic: multi-issue combined boxes, copied & pasted content, general cleanup & rewrite, subject-specified cleanup, copyediting, writing style, structure, scope, unwanted content, bad text formatting, lacking context, excessive/lacking info or detail, topic deviation, lacking citation specifications, expert attention, time-related (different selection than General has), confusion, bad summary of corresponding main article in detail article, notability, neutrality, verifiability, categorization, images/media cleanup & requests, list cleanup, technical cleanup
- Also has a bit of guidance on using cleanup tags at the top, and a breakdown of the cleanup backlog at the bottom
- Deletion – article & talk page notices
- Disputes – organized by intended placement: top of article or section, top of article, top of section, inline, talk page
- Formatting – text columns, multiple images in one frame, hide/show content, keyboard keys, flat list
- Hatnotes
- Links – special ways of linking to specific things, both internal and external
- internal (category of): to main articles, formatted on disambiguation pages, about German personal titles, country flag & name
- external (category of): pieces of media, geography, databases about media, Bible verses, other wikis & databases, etc.
- Lists – status, issues, navigation
- Maintenance – major edits in progress, new articles, protection status, copyright, certain specific article issues, categorization
- Merging – suggested merging, merged, merged instead of deleted, suggested splitting
- Moving – requested moves, category rename proposals, title cleanup, suggested split, suggested move to userspace
- Sister projects – links to related content on other WMF wikis
- Sources – multi-issue combined boxes, copied & pasted content, verifiability & sources for BLPs, issues with verifiability & sources, source search suggestions, notices of legitimate incorporation of third-party content, citations of specific sources
- Standard boxes – calendars, diagram builders, unit converters, time converters, periodic table
- Stub types
- Talk: (guideline about)
- WikiProject banners
- Template:Done/See also – reply templates in the style of
Done
- Translation – suggestions, requests, cleanup
- General – disambiguation, redirection, section main article hatnotes, footnotes & references, time-related, title technical, special character notices, expansion requests
- Technical, non-article namespaces, inter-wiki linking
- Deletion – discussion, file notices, suggestions to deleting admin
- Formatting – divbox, userbox container, keyboard keys, flat list
- Compact tables of contents for categories
- Links – to templates, with tools
- Moving – requested moves (incl. technical), category rename proposals, can be/will be/was copied to another wiki, file shadows Commons
- Redirect (navbox of) – redirect reasons, talk page of, printworthiness, rcats, multi-rcat shell, category of, deprecated template redirect, category redirect, soft redirect
- Sister projects – suggested/completed move/copy of content to other WMF wikis
- By namespace:
- Category:
- File:
- Template:
- User:
- Welcomes (table of, category of)
- Warnings (category of, WikiProject)
- User talk:
- Wikipedia:
- For articles & article talk pages
- Infoboxes (list of, category of, WikiProject)
- Navigation templates (navboxes & sidebars)
- Most-transcluded templates; unused templates
Project pages[edit]
Articles to be created[edit]
- WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic Articles
- Most-wanted articles – by number of redlinks
- Requested articles index
Other[edit]
- Words most commonly used as article title disambiguators – as of May 2009