User:Eric

Article sourcing
Citing_sources

Cite web – with common parameters:
 * if no author:

Cite book – with common parameters:
 * in a foreign language:

Linking to individual titles on Google Books – somewhat helpful article in Google's chaotic help mess for linking to Google Books titles and pages
 * this can work for linking to a specific page: If the url contains &printsec, replace that and everything that follows with &pg=PA.

Notelist for adding in-line notes – should (must?) add separate reflist for these in Notes section, e.g.:

NoteTag generates these (at bottom of section):

reflist for listing references

Unreferenced for articles without any reference sources cited (see related templates on that same page)

Refimprovesect for article sections needing more sourcing

Fact – –  to call for sourcing for a specific statement

Reflist-talk – place at end of talkpage section to keep any reference footnotes in a box in that section
 * good to precede it with this comment:
 * for talkpage footnotes: notelist-talk –

Advice, warning:
Vandalism warning templates citing page name: Vandalism

Listing of template messages: Template_messages/User_talk_namespace (includes multiple templates for disruptive editors)

External link spam: Template_messages/User_talk_namespace/Multi-level_templates

Edit summary templates, etc:
~ – Summary2:

(Template:Uw-subtle2) produces this:

Please explain your contributions using an edit summary. Changing information on Wikipedia (such as numbers and dates) without explanation may be confused with vandalism. Thank you.

optional parameters: article article

Template:Edit_summary produces a much larger message

Article promotes use of more accurate summaries

Well-stated talkpage post by Ammodramus promoting use of edit summaries: User_talk:WhatsUpWorld (diff)

Another good one I'd like to make a template for: User_talk:Hantsheroes

Formatting, layout
Table guidance: Help:Table – Note: "minimalist" table (no borders) omits

ubl (unbulleted list) –  yields: apples

oranges

pears

blist (bulleted list) –  yields:

xt – various templates for generating example text – See also section has some good info and html tags

tq (talk quote inline) – for use in talkpage discussions (preferred over xt)

kbd – your text here – same effect on text as : uses  (keyboard input), plus applies some styling to it (a faint grey background borrowed from the related ) and slight CSS letter-spacing to suggest individually entered characters); For comparison, here is some text using the tag instead of the template

od – outdent generates this:

...to create visual liaison from deeply indented talk posts back to left margin.

blockquote – various quotation formats

, short for talk quote inline, produces Quoted text

misc useful templates
convert Conversion templates and parameters

diff for creating links to pages that show the differences between two versions of a wiki page

clear ( = - ) Helps in controlling flow of text

Discussion, notification:
– handy, basic template for mentioning/notifying a user

Template:Tiny_ping alerts user(s) to a message via Wikipedia's notification system



Template:Please see – Talk: #

notification triggers – mentions, etc

Template:Talkback has several templates for calling the attention of other editors

– Facilitates keeping user-to-user discussions on one talk page

unsigned talk posts: time, day month year (UTC)

Discussion move:
Templates for discussion moves (instructions at Moved discussion to and Moved discussion from), produce the following: and

Miscellaneous reference
Access to restricted databases, journals, studies via Wikipedia Library (some you have, some you apply for)– https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/
 * JSTOR

WP:SPI – to open or re-open a sockpuppet investigation: How to open an investigation (show) > enter puppetmaster's name

Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism – Admin vandalism notification page

Comment syntax:

Manual_of_Style/Titles

MOS:CURRENT – shortcut to guidance regarding temporally problematic material (Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers)

How_to_edit_a_page

Cheatsheet

Quick_guide

Help:Edit_summary

Edit summary abbreviations

Help:Show_preview - Promotes minimizing number of saves per edit session.

Help:HTML_in_wikitext

WP:GLOSSARY

Sister_projects

Grolltech's useful cheatsheet of templates: User:Grolltech/Cheetsheet

Screenshots of Wikipedia

Example of url for contribution listing restricted by date: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Monster+boy1&namespace=14&tagfilter=&newOnly=1&start=2018-11-22&end=2019-02-25

Tools

 * Σ's edit summary search – search a user's edit summaries (and section headings)
 * Σ's Editor Interaction Analyser – fab
 * Interaction timeline
 * user contribution search – search a page's history and return edits made by a given user (note Help & Tips at bottom)
 * intersecting contributions – contributions of given users on same articles in a given Wikiproject (note Namespace option)
 * Article blamer – find author of given text string in given article
 * copy-paste detection tool

Image stuff
commons:Commons:upload

Picture_tutorial

Extended image syntax →see also caption help from Redrose64: Wikipedia_talk:Extended_image_syntax (March 2012)

– template for boxes with multiple images

Help:Gallery_tag – gallery guide

Picture_tutorial

How_to_fix_bunched-up_edit_links caused by stacked images

User:Drilnoth/lefteditlinks.js/doc Drilnoth's gadget for moving section edit links over next to heading

Language stuff
Help:Interlanguage links – linking to equivalent article in another language


 * Wikidata


 * Example of an interwikimedia link (link to an article on another Wikipedia):
 * long distance footpath article on the French Wikipedia (code for linked word article: )


 * adapted from Help:Interlanguage_links:
 * Use the template, which does the same thing as above, but hides the German link if the English redlink turns blue.
 * produces Henri Vincenot (as of Jan 2024 en.wp does not have an article with this title)
 * produces Hanning Schröder (en.wp has an article with this name)
 * – when the title in the target language is different from the English text being linked, for example:
 * produces: Hooglede town hall
 * To display text different from the article title (maybe only pertinent when there is more than one non-English link??), use the parameter  produces Ascension de la roche de Solutré

Template:Translated_page tags an article as having material translated from a wiki in another language

User_talk:Dismas/archive20 – discussion about problem of low-fluency editing on en.wp

Contributing_to_articles_outside_your_native_language – I find this a bit too encouraging to non-fluent editors

Speakers_of_other_languages – I find this far too encouraging to non-fluent editors

Competence_is_required – section of essay on competence required for editing

Template:Cleanup-translation

Category:Wikipedia_translation_templates

Translation/%2A/Lang/fr

Translation/%2A/Lang/de

Customization
Skin

User:Eric/myskin.css

User:Eric/modern.js

User:Eric/common.js

User_talk:Ilmari_Karonen/archive14 - Discussion on how to customize Edittools using User: /myskin.js

Wikinsanity
"Discussions" and other silliness that demonstrate the tragicomic aspects of having an encyclopedia that anyone can edit:

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_France/Archive_2

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_France/Archive_1

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants/Archive14

Articles_for_deletion/Death_threat

Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_August_1

WikiProject Numbers – Wikipedia has articles about individual integers! Hundreds of them!

Headlight flashing – This is actually an article in our encyclopedia.

Boston accent – No, this is not a joke, but it makes Wikipedia look like one.

Ferret-legging - according to Snopes "allegedly a 'sport' ... reported in an article ... published by Donald Katz in 1987 ... riddled with factual errors ... The Wikipedia article ... has no direct sources except for Katz's article. It has been nominated for deletion twice; both times, the votes were split fifty/fifty and the article was kept. Did Katz write a poor article on an actual sport, or did he make it up?"

Hair_washing_without_commercial_shampoo – Amazing.

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