User:Musical Linguist/user

This page is for my personal use, to give me quick links to pages I might want to get to quickly, notes about how to format, information about templates, etc.

Searching for likely vandalism
Possible vandals can be found by looking at the contribs of editors reverted by anti-vandalism bots:
 * Recent changes to articles from IP
 * Special:Contributions/Tawkerbot2
 * Special:Contributions/Tawkerbot4
 * Special:Contributions/AntiVandalBot
 * Special:Contributions/MartinBot

Request for edit summary
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this: The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature. When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

summary

Using templates with subst

 * Terri Schiavo
 * Terri Schiavo
 * 24 hours
 * Terri Schiavo

Useful links

 * Template:TestTemplates
 * Template substitution

Getting rid of arrow for links to external sites
Add to the beginning of the paragraph. This works in userboxes as well. See, for example the difference between:

Other
To sign for another user, add something like:. This will expand into — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tropix (talk • contribs) 10:51, September 03, 2005

To link to a category without adding that page to the category, put a colon in front of it, e.g. Category:Requests for unblock

To link to meta, wiktionary, or a wikipedia article in another language:


 * Range blocks becomes Range blocks
 * auxiliary verb becomes auxiliary verb
 * Benoit XVI becomes :Benoit XVI

Within a template, if piped links don't work, use |

instead of