User:Klortho/Editing notes

Here are some general notes about editing articles.

=Useful templates=


 * To delete any page in your own user space, add  to the top

Here's a collapsible guide to commonly used templates; the  template:

=Wiki markup syntax=

Escaping

 * Surround any text with

Links
See Help:Link.


 * The Banana Splits
 * My favorite show &mdash; piped link; link that has text different from the page you are linking to.
 * Season 1 &mdash; link to a section within an article
 * /subpage &mdash; link to a subpage of this page; should start with a "/".

Pipe trick
The pipe trick (see Help:Pipe_trick): If you enter a link that ends with a pipe character and nothing after it, then a label is automatically generated that leaves off the namespace and anything in parentheses. Examples:


 * is converted to Template, which is rendered as Template.
 * is converted to My life, which is rendered as  My life - although "Music:" is not a namespace (therefore the space after the colon is not automatically removed), the shortcut works anyway.
 * is converted to pipe which is rendered as pipe.

Linking to old versions / diffs
Use templates to do that:


 * →, parameter order is new id, old id
 * →, use 0 to diff against the latest version
 * →, use 0 to diff against the latest version

Interwiki links
See:


 * meta:Help:Interwiki_linking
 * Help:Link
 * Interwiki_map - Lists hundreds of prefixes for other wikis all over the interwebs.

Tips

 * Avoid excessive links. The lead of an article typically has more than the rest.  Only make the first occurrence of a word or phrase a link.

Citing Sources

 * Being bold is important on Wikipedia.

Multiple reference lists
Note that in order to do multiple reference lists on the same page, you have to make sure that each reference list is "closed", as described here. To do that, it should be sufficient to just code your reflist as.

When and how to cite
This is from Keilana:


 * All you need to do is cite at the end of the paragraph. Generally the rule of thumb is that you cite quotes and always have a cite at the end of a paragraph.  If you only have one source in a paragraph with no quotes, then the single citation is fine.  If you have multiple sources for a paragraph, try to cite them by sentence based on where they came from, but you don't need to have the same citation for two sentences in a row.

Images / figures
Modified from a comment by Keilana:

Here is a blank template that you can just fill in every time you want to put an image somewhere:. For example, the code produces the image to the right.

Cool miscellaneous templates
template name - tl - Lets you reference a template in order to talk about it (here it is self-referential)

Graphics / icons
Here's the list:
 * Done – ✅
 * Done-t, a non-graphical alternative to Done –
 * Not done – ❌
 * Not done-t, a non-graphical alternative to Not done – ❌
 * Not done and will not be done (or Notdone2) –
 * Stale-small - ❌
 * Partly done –
 * Half done –
 * Fixed –
 * Won't fix – ❌
 * Added –
 * Doing –
 * Isdoing –
 * Awaiting –
 * Not sure –
 * Checking –
 * Discussing –
 * Sent –
 * Uploaded –
 * Snow –
 * Question —
 * Idea –
 * Warnsign –
 * Thank you –
 * You're welcome –
 * Tick, produces the tick alone – ✅
 * Cross, produces the cross alone –
 * Qmark, produces the questionmark alone —
 * Bulb, produces the bulb alone –
 * Await, produces the clock alone –
 * Merge done, for completed mergers – ✅

Check marks:


 * Check mark
 * Tick =  ✅
 * Y, y, aye ✅
 * Ya, ya ✅
 * Check mark-n ✔️
 * Y& ✅
 * File:☑.svg [[File:Check_mark.svg]]

X marks


 * 23 ❌
 * Cross =
 * N, n, nay ❌
 * Na, na ❌
 * X mark-n ❌
 * N& ❌
 * File:☒.svg [[File:☒.svg]]

Other


 * n.b.
 * hmmm
 * bang