User:Canadian Wiki Librarian/sandbox/practice

Welcome to a practice page! After each task, Publish changes... so you don't loose your work.

Task 1: Copy and pasting this page into your sandbox
Click "Edit source" and copy and paste the contents of this page into your own sandbox. (Tip:  +  to select all)


 * To make a new sandbox page under your account, simply "create a new file" by writing /something after /sandbox in the URL (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Utl_jung/sandbox/mango )

Then, publish the page. This will give you a copy of this page which you can now freely edit.

Task 2: Fix a typo
Edit the typo in the following sentence: "Fixing tpyos is a simple but useful way to contribute to Wikipedia."

Task 3: Formatting

Make the above, bolded text reading "Task 3: Formatting" into a Heading and make sure it isn't bolded. (Bonus marks for removing any extra paragraph spaces above "Task 3: A bit of formatting" so that there is no extra space above the new heading.) [Note that Task 3 should now appear automatically in the table of contents section near the top of the page.]

Make this line of text a Sub-heading 1 Turn this line into regular paragraph text instead of this weird box thing-y

Adding internal link
Link Da 5 Bloods to the Wikipedia article for the movie. (Bonus marks for italicizing the link since movie titles are italicized, even when linked).

Adding external link
Link Spike Lee on IMBD to the external page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000490/

Editing link
The following link for Tracy Moore is meant to link the the Canadian journalist's article on Wikipedia, but right now it goes to a disambiguation page for that name. Edit the link so it goes straight to the correct page.

"To link or not to link, that is the question"
For the paragraph below, there are too many links—it is overlinked! Remove the ones that you think shouldn't be there.

This is an example paragraph to help people get a better sense of what should and should not be linked. It is not an exact science, but there is a style manual for linking on Wikipedia that can help Wikipedia editors. The style manual for linking on Wikipedia recommends adding red links for pages that don't yet exist.

Task 5: Using elements from other pages
Below this paragraph, copy over the table showing the "Awards and nominations" from Delroy Lindo. This is a bit of a complex table, so if you wanted to do the same table for another actor, it would be easier to duplicate and edit versus create from scratch. (Tip: when something doesn't work copy and pasting in Visual editing, using the Source editing should do the trick...)

Task 6: Add a citation
Add a manual citation to the paraphrased sentence below which was taken from the following article: https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20131219/281827166586179

Rambhaben Jethalal was born in India and moved to South Africa in 1913 as a teenage bride.

Task 7: Infobox
In the space below, replicate the infobox on the article for Nathaniel Dett, without copy and pasting it ;) Remember: an infobox is a template! To add a template, press "Insert" > "Template".