User:Markbassett/Sandbox/sandbox2

General formatting lessons, tips & demo

Welcome !
A welcome other than just WP:WELCOME can be posted to ip users who do more than one edit ... Saw this one from CupcakePerson13 and the next from NK1406

style guide site:uk capitalisation

Oxford style guide Gov.UK Imperial College London

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Happy editing! ―NK1406 talk•contribs 00:02, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Talkpage advice
er MOS:LISTGAP (which I linked for you in my edit summary), please don't use leading bullets in unbulleted sections.

snip
 * A lot of those talkpage comments require no response. As much as possible, always go armed with a load of references, especially from their approved venues....and keep things as short and sweet as possible to avoid acrimonious entanglements. In verbal conversations, few ever listen anyway, often talking past each other...but in online written discussions, this is even worse. At my job I have found that most people I chat with require me to repeat something twice if communicated verbally, and 4 times if done by email, and I even try to dumb things down for them so they get it. Wikipedia is worse even than that many times.--MONGO (talk) 19:14, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

snip good hints. Though I still suspect there may be cases of topic selectivity, where some folks just don't want to or are congitively unable to talk about some concerns. That seems just the nature of the world these days  Thanks again, the tips might help where it's not a strong block. Cheers Markbassett (talk) 19:27, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

TABS and LAYOUT
Wiki - doing quick links and tabs like a GUI. Template guide at WP:TABS. See example at WP:VPR too.

- The leftside quicklinks are from the wiki config, Main page / Community portal / Journal / etcetera list could be diff on private sites but mostly they are functionally useful and familiar so want 'recent changes' and 'help' and toolbox 'what links here', 'upload file', etc too ... maybe add more at bottom ???

- A rightside inclusion can be made with templates, e.g.

- Tabs may be done with links ... these actually go to different articles wiki/Enterprise_strategy, wiki/Strategy, wiki/partners - and a second top tab is - and a third tab is

--- -            Tab1        Tab2     Tab3 Left : left :     Intro text                      Vital links left :     Blah blah                       box / list left :     Blah Blah left : left :     See links #waybelow     and [othersite]  or article left : TOC area ish

{{Editable table|: ....            {{editor |John Doe ...

ALSO try (each in double braces ) TabsTop Tab1|TEAM|size=15.4 T Tab2|FAQs |size=15.4 Tab3|Nomore|size=15.4 TabsBottom

NESTED TABS
Alternatively one can fake going down a breadcrumb trail of articles or fwd/back links e.g. Top page > Subtopic >  Detail

The top tabs can have a second row below them i.e. tab 3 goes to article 3 which has the same row at top and a SECOND row of tabs below it...

linking to articles named as if sub pages, wiki/Partners/Staff, wiki/Partners/Talking points, etc does both rows ....   The Staff supporting is .... With office hours of 9 to 5 EST

Template tabs - See WP:TABS. For example, at top of wikipage put these lines within double braces, and result is three tabs with middle tab seeming active TabsTop Tab2|tablabel Tab1|[[someother|tablabeltoo TabsBotom

.... be good to have a cookbook entry for variations on this, enable and guide good navigation norms & typical in outside use too ... perhaps a row of tabs example, or two rows; or tabs that are pulldowns ?

EMBEDDED IMAGES
A banner can be done with series of images, such as 'Image:ABCD.jpg' in double bracket.

Caution - ''' be sure to record information about the image. ''' (or any upload)

e.g. see the hoohaw at Donald Trump The image and cropped version from whitehouse.gov reference here -- had different information, neither with anything they were based on and before that from scanned brochure airbrushed and colorized [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Donald_Trump/Archive_44#The_official_portrait_of_the_President-elect_is_out. info] . .... that said senate photo ... without WP:V basis for that either. colorized and airbrushed then coped

And since there was a longstanding 'how bout this photo!' feeling of wanting the official photo, the editors inputting this one _named_ it 'official' and made such a caategory ... when it wasn't from the trump transition sites was that wrong ? right ? who defines 'official' and how ? who checks / enforces ?

TABLES
Example two columns

Example three columns

Management &amp; Team
And example sortable 4-columns

Tricks
Brackets User:x pings that user lt sup gt bracket mailto:email word end /sup  e.g. [mailto:want4none@yahoo.com mail]

Use of intitle -- Link to search in Crusade (disambiguation) there is a link to list of or as this

Use of other wikilinks
 * User talk User talk:Markbassett
 * Special:Contributions Contribs

Book citation at Sod's Law - a URL archive.org will display the page A slightly different form of it is "the degree of failure is in direct proportion to the effort expended and to the need for success."