User:HFDThomas/sandbox

2016.11.10

Sandbox Entry #1

Basic text looks like this. Bold is achieved by inserting three of these ['] before and after the text to be made bold. Italic is achieved by inserting two of these ['] before and after the text to be made italic.

Wikilinks - links to other Wikipedia articles - are inserted by adding two opening square brackets to the beginning of the text and two closing square brackets at the end. In other words, if I want to link to the article about unicorns, I put the brackets before and behind the word, as follows: unicorns. And behold, the link appears.

If, on the other hand, I want to create a link to a page whose name is different from the link text, that formatting works like this: Double opening square brackets, name of actual article, pipe [|], word or phrase that will carry the link, and then double closing square brackets. For example, I might want to direct people to the unicorns page, but I might want to refer to unicorns as those critters that look like a horse and a narwhal had a baby.

Ooh, this is fun. Obviously, sometimes, it will be necessary to create a section with a heading. Surround heading text with two equals signs on each side. To add bullets, put an asterisk in front of the list item text. To add a numbered list, use a # instead of an asterisk.

Unicorns
Unicorns are those critters that look like a horse and a narwhal had a baby.


 * Unicorns like apples.
 * Unicorns sometimes kill people if those people cut down their trees.
 * Unicorns are pretty.

Reasons to Love Unicorns
 * 1) Unicorns are graceful.
 * 2) Unicorns are majestic.
 * 3) Unicorns use special conditioner to keep their manes and tails soft.

Talk Pages
If I'm on a talk page and I want to leave a signature with my user name and date / time stamp, I conclude my message with four tildes.

23:11, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

...evidently, since I placed that signature on my own user sandbox page, it only shows time and date, not my username. Makes sense. NOTE that it may be helpful to add a double dash before the four tildes: --HFDThomas (talk) 23:14, 10 November 2016 (UTC) ...OH. I see. The double dash is necessary to attribute the quote to me. One thing I don't know yet is how to fix the fact that my user page does not yet exist.

Reply to other peoples' comments on a talk page by writing below them in a same section. Subsequent replies should always have one more colon before them than the previous reply, like this:


 * First Reply
 * Second Reply
 * Reply from a Llama
 * Etc.

Wikimedia Commons
In order to add images to a Wikipedia article, those images first have to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is only for images that meet the following criteria:


 * 1) It's an original image I made myself. Or...
 * 2) It's an image by someone else that has been explicitly released under a Wikipedia-compatible license. Or...
 * 3) It's in the Public Domain.

That reference up there was my first stab at playing with references, and the fact is that I don't know how to put references in their own section yet. I'm figuring I'll get there sometime within this series of videos. We'll see.

Regardless: upload files by going to commons.wikipedia.org, and logging in using existing Wikipedia credentials. There's more stuff in the tutorial video about this; I'm not going to mess with it right now, because it's time to clock out. This is fun!

2016.11.16: Sandbox Entry #2
Oooh, cool, time to make a Notes section! To tell Wikipedia where the footnotes go, the word 'reflist' gets put between two sets of curly brackets (see below.)

Gorgeous. So that worked. Hooray! Okay. So there's the citing info I used before where you cite sources using opening and closing ref tags, like this:

King Arthur's father was Uther Pendragon, and his mother was Queen Igraine. .

But you can also use the cite tool, up top. Leave the cursor wherever you need to put the citation, click on the Cite button, and off you go.

King Arthur's father was Uther Pendragon, and his mother was duchess Igraine of Cornwall, who married Uther shortly after Arthur was conceived.

Okay, cool: Infobox Time.

So that's pretty cool. Making infoboxes. One thing to note is that typing Template:Infobox into the Wikipedia search box produces a number of options, including "Person," "Hospital," "Settlement," etc., and each entry leads to a template page that will include code that can be copied and used.

2016.11.17: Sandbox Entry #3
I need to practice all the things, including:


 * Lists made of bullets, and
 * Lists made of things other than bullets, such as...


 * 1) Lists made of numbers.
 * 2) Also unicorns...
 * 3) Which are also known as Those critters that look like a horse and a narwhal had a baby.

I also mustn't forget that I can do this...
 * and this
 * and this
 * and this
 * ...and this.

And it's very important that I cite things, because if you don't cite things, your edit will be deleted or modified. We cite our sources on Wikipedia, children. Seriously. So for example, if I want to talk about something antediluvian, I can do that, and link to the definition in case someone doesn't know what the word means.

Okay, but can I do this?

Yes. Yes I can.

--HFDThomas (talk) 21:30, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Other stuff I Can Do.

2017.02.02: Sandbox Entry #4
Getting some practice; getting back into the loop. So. Bold. Italic.

Bulleted Lists
 * Here's a thing in a bulleted list.
 * Here's a WikiLink in a bulleted list: Unicorn.
 * Or it could be done this way: Narwhal + Horsey = Magical

Numbered Lists
 * 1) Your mom.
 * 2) Your mom in tube socks.
 * 3) Your mom in tube socks with unicorns.

Citing jazz.

In his personal blog, Dr. Andy Schmachter explains that he once saw ''your mom in tube socks with unicorns.

Citation Trial Run




THIS is the one that actually WORKS per Roger's instructions to change the one above.

As a footnote:

Just the plain citation:

This time, Roger gave me an edited version with how he wants it to show up. Here's me trying to make their template conform to that: