User:Chaosdruid/templates

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Wiki search terms to narrow searches
Search for "the world war I"
 * Oh, I thought you were using AWB for those types of searches
 * After some research it appears that the Wikipedia search engine uses Lucene, which led me to this page [2]
 * It seems as if this works quite well:
 * "the?world?war?I" NOT "World War" NOT "World" NOT "War"
 * If you put that in the standard wikipedia search box it gives Eastern Front (World War II) as the second result, and, lo and behold it has a "the World War I" in it !! Woohoo ! so, to do world war two would be
 * "the?world?war?II" NOT "World War" NOT "World" NOT "War"

Inline templates

 * Cite quote: for "actual quotations" which need citations to make them proper
 * Page number: request a page number for an existing citation
 * List fact: request a citation of a source which justifies inclusion of a given entry in a list
 * Clarify: request clarification of wording or interpretation
 * Reference necessary: wrapper for a portion of a paragraph to highlight it as needing citation
 * Nonspecific: flag a general, yet factual statement as needing to be made more specific before it can be verified
 * Examples: request examples for clarification
 * Cn-span : highlights the text that needs verifying

Incomplete citations

 * Page needed: in-line request for the page number or page numbers in a work such as journal for an existing citation.
 * Season needed, similar to page needed: for missing TV season & episode number
 * Volume needed, similar to page needed: for missing journal, newspaper, comic, etc., volume and issue numbers)
 * Full: in-line request for full citation, for example when only (Author, YEAR) is given.

Verification

 * Dead link: request a fix for a dead external link within a paragraph or a reference citation.
 * Failed verification: source was checked, and did not contain the cited material
 * Request quotation: request a direct quote from an inaccessible source, for verification purposes
 * Self-citation: flag a source that cites the author
 * Verify credibility: flag a source as possibly being unreliable and/or unverifiable
 * Verify source: request that someone verify the cited source backs up the material in the passage
 * Primary source claim: flags a statement as only being verified by a Primary source

Content

 * Dubious: flag something as suspected of being incorrect
 * Or: flag something as possibly containing original research
 * undue-inline: show that a statement does not ascribe appropriate weight to its sources, according to their prominence; use in preference to...
 * POV-statement: dispute the neutrality of a passage
 * Weasel-inline: Avoid weasel words
 * Peacock term: Avoid peacock terms too
 * Jargon-statement: ...and Jargon
 * Who: for placement after descriptions of a group of persons
 * Whom: placement after mention of a vague third party claim that is not sourced
 * Quantify: flag a statement as being vague regarding the amount of something
 * When: flags a particular time period as being vague or ambiguous
 * Time fact: request a source confirming or providing the chronology or timeline of a statement
 * Definition: flag a definition as being ambiguous/confusing

Timeliness

 * Update after: a template that only shows itself after a specified time, indicating an exceptional statement that will date quickly

Article message box templates

 * Unreferenced, article/section has no sources/references/citations given at all
 * Refimprove, article/section has weak or incomplete sources/references/citations
 * Cite check, article/section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations
 * Citation method and style
 * Citation style
 * No footnotes

Template constructions - testing

 * I have edited the sandbox but I am unclear as to whether or not I can test it or find out if it is correct (as I have no clue about how the functions work). Could you please take a look on the sandbox page and check it for me?
 * Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 22:12, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * You can test it by just using page tabs/sandbox instead of page tabs. But the proposed code looks good, so I went ahead and did it. Anomie⚔ 22:55, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I was using my sandbox5 page, and the tl sandbox, but got into difficulties with making it work.
 * I have got as far as adding the extra curly brackets, User:Chaosdruid/sandbox5, but is there possibly a limitation to the amount of nested functions? I cannot seem to get it to register the last three when testing on the Special:ExpandTemplates page.
 * Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 22:12, 20 March 2012 (UTC)


 * OK, that is weird - It works! but not on the special test page, ah well, thanks for the help :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 23:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)