User:Katherine/WP-links

A directory of links to frequently-used Wikipedia project pages. I have created this directory to save me having to hunt through search pages and bookmarks.

Infoboxes
Note: The Indian Jurisdiction infobox is up for deletion. Do not use.
 * Schools
 * Infobox settlement - Standard infobox template for most types of settlements like cities, towns, villages, etc. To use it, copy the format located at Template:Infobox settlement and substitute the settlement's information in the parameters section as directed on the Infobox template page. See San Jose, California for an example.
 * Infobox Australian place - Australian variation of the standard infobox.

Template guide
Reference list of frequently-used templates, including a summary of their content.

Reference guide
Links to references which have proven useful in wikifying dead-end pages and other tidy-up tasks.

NSW state records

 * Indexes Online - index of records (need to go to reading room at Kingswood for these)

Places

 * US Geographic Names Information System - information about physical and cultural geographic features of all types in the United States, associated areas, and Antarctica, current and historical, but not including roads and highways.


 * US Hometown Locator - profiles, maps, data, and directions for US cities, towns, neighborhoods, subdivisions, physical, cultural and historical features.

Manual of style
Sections of the Wikipedia Manual of Style to which I frequently refer. Includes a brief summary of the page or section content, where useful. Most of these summaries are my own interpretation of the MOS, and should not be taken as a Wikipedia guideline or policy.

WP:HEAD
Section headings


 * Headings should not normally contain links (do as I say, not as I do?)


 * Capitalise the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest in lower case


 * Style markup:


 * == Primary heading ==


 * === Sub heading ===


 * ==== Sub sub heading ====


 * A blank line below the heading is optional; but do include one blank line above the heading, for readability in the edit window.


 * If the topic of a section is also covered in a dedicated article, show this by inserting directly under the section heading.

WP:MOSCAPS
Offices, positions, and job titles


 * Positions and titles are common nouns, and should only be capitalised when they form part of a person's name.


 * Usage examples: Prime Minister Gillard -  Louis XVI was King of France


 * La Gillardine is the prime minister of Australia -  A monarchy has a king or queen as its head of state

Religions, deities, and philosophies


 * Names of organised religions take a capital letter, whether used as a noun or adjective. Islam, Catholicism, Pentecostal


 * Unofficial movements and ideologies within religions do not take a cap. evangelical, fundamentalist

WP:MOSABBR
Acronyms in article titles Acronyms in article body Special considerations
 * Name the page for the acronym is that is the most usual and common name. NASA, radar
 * Use redirects and disambiguation pages where confusion exists.
 * Do not apply initial caps to common nouns even when forming an acronym. AutoCad is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool...'
 * Use the full name as the first reference, and give the acronym as an alternative. Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)
 * Generally avoid full stops in acronyms, but more importantly be consistent.

In normal text:

Unless an official name or registered trademark:
 * Texas, not TX. New South Wales, not NSW


 * Mount or Mountain, not Mt

WP:MOSDAB
Disambiguation pages

Top of the page

 * Definitions - cross-link to Wiktionary. – without parameters, defaults to using the current page's name. Check the links as Wiktionary titles are case-sensitive on the first letter, using proper caps for its entries.


 * When a page has "(disambiguation)" in its title – i.e., it is the disambiguation page for a term that has a WP:primary topic, link back to the primary topic:
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A school is an institution for learning.

School may also refer to:
 * School (discipline) or school of thought, a number of individuals with shared styles, approaches or aims
 * School (fish), a group of fish swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner
 * }
 * }


 * Intro line - The term being disambiguated should be in bold (not italics). It should begin a sentence fragment ending with a colon, introducing a bulleted list. Examples:


 * Interval may refer to:


 * John Smith is the name of:


 * ABC may stand for:


 * Arc or ARC may refer to:

Don't include minor variants. ( AU may refer to ) is better than ( AU or au or Au may refer to ).

Individual entries

 * Preface each entry with a bullet (an asterisk in wiki markup)
 * Start each entry with a capital letter (unless it begins with a link to an article marked with, like eBay)
 * Entries should nearly always be sentence fragments, with no final punctuation (commas, full stops, semicolons, etc.)
 * Each entry should have exactly one navigable link to guide readers to the most relevant article for that use term - do not wikilink any other words in the line

''Dark Star (song), by the Grateful Dead NOT Dark Star (song), by the Grateful Dead ''


 * Keep the description to a minimum, just enough to determine the subject
 * Usually the title is at the start of the line, and displayed in full (not piped unless formatting needed, such as for book and movie titles in italics)
 * Dab pages shouldn't have all red links, or only one blue link
 * Never include external links
 * No references - incorporate them into the article

People

 * Include birth and death year if known, and just enough descriptor to distinguish between people:


 * John Adams (composer) (born 1947), American composer who came to prominence with his opera Nixon in China
 * John Adams (physicist) (1920–1984), Director General of CERN and particle accelerator designer
 * John Adams (martyr) (died 1586), Catholic priest and martyr under Elizabeth I of England

Places

 * Just the name of the article may be enough (Jacksonville, Florida; Jacksonville, Alabama)
 * It may be appropriate to add the country after the link. Leave the country unlinked. (Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom; Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada

Redlinks
(See also MOS:DABRL)


 * Only retain redlinks if they are linked to by an article (check What links here)


 * If the only pages that use the red link are disambiguation pages, do one of the following:


 * Unlink the entry word but still keep a blue link in the description. Red links should not be the only link in a given entry; link also to an existing article, so that a reader (as opposed to a contributing editor) will have somewhere to navigate to for additional information. The linked article should contain some meaningful information about the term.


 * Start a new article for the red link, using the description on the disambiguation page.


 * Make a redirect to a page where the item is described (see Piping and redirects above).

Organisation

 * Primary subject at the top


 * Split long dab pages into sections


 * Use a See also section for likely misspellings, different forms, confused terms (Newtown, New Town)

End of the page
The usual template to use is, which produces a general disambiguation notice, and places the page in Category:Disambiguation pages. Parameters can be added to place the page additionally into other more specific disambiguation categories. For example, if a page includes multiple places and multiple people with the same surname (and possibly other items), use. A full list of available parameters and their corresponding categories can be found in the template documentation. See also:
 * WP:Disambiguation dos and don'ts
 * WP:Disambiguation pages with links