User:Netjeff/Cheatsheet about editing

This is my cheatsheet about editing Wikipedia pages.

Citations/refs in general
For footnotes using inline citation/ref use  , with optional. Then towards end of page use template RefList once.

See Help:Footnotes for general guidance & recommendations.

The most freeform is "naked" use of

Use a template inside of  to give more structure and automatic formatting.

One of the most generic is template Citation. This is known as "Citation Style 1" aka "CS1".

There are "children" of .

All the "children" can use all of the params of general.
 * "General use" citations, including Cite web and
 * "Specific source" citations, including Cite IETF
 * Templates that "wrap other CS1 templates", including
 * Cite tweet that wraps Cite web
 * OpenStreetMap maps that wraps Cite map

Citation to short story "Moriarty by Modem" in the anthology Sherlock Holmes in Orbit
Using Cite book with, then. If there was an url for the overall anthology, I would have added a. FYI, I added/updated this citation on Analytical engine.

Citations to printed material with page numbers
This is a citation to an entire paper, where the citation does not include any page numbers.

This is a citation to same paper, where the citation itself contains ref to pages 7 and 8.

This is reusing the citation containing pages 7 and 8

This is a citation to same paper, but page 14 inside the citation.

When a single article has multiple refs to same source differing in only page numbers, see templates sfn, harvp, and related, and then combined with a manually created "Bibliography" section, sometime section is named "Works cited", often combined with refbegin and. These templates automatically links into the manually created "Bibliography" section. For example pages that use these, see Starship Troopers and Happy Birthday to You.

Template Rp provides visual-only pages markup, with a cite is to the entire paper.

Inline links to RFC
Use template IETF RFC like this:

Use special syntax  like this, 3261


 * This is known as "Interwiki linking" with complete list at Interwiki_map
 * You can customize the link as usual with  like this, RFC 3261
 * You can deep link with  like this, rfc-3261 §21.4.18

Citations to RFC
Use template Ref RFC for an all-in-one  plus cite
 * See docs for variations on section name, pages, etc
 * See docs for variations on section name, pages, etc

Use template Cite IETF within a
 * shallow


 * deep


 * deep w/sectionname


 * shallow with section.   This uses Rp for visual-only section number, combined with cite ietf to the entire RFC.


 * deep with appendix name

For fine-grained control use generic template Cite web like this.

Note that template Citation is the basis of both Cite web and Cite IETF. So you can also use all params from Citation.

When a single article has multiple refs to same rfc differing in only section/page numbers, see discussion about templates sfn and harvp above.

and related verifiability templates
See Citation needed for guidelines on when to (not) use the Citation needed template

See Template:Inline cleanup tags for an exhaustive list of related templates

When citation is present but questionable,


 * Specify : Used to tag statements that seem to be sourced but lack sufficient specificity as to what exactly is being drawn from the source. This situation most often arises when sources are over-summarized to an excessive level, without sufficient care for whether the result has a clear enough meaning to be properly verifiable.


 * Verify source : Used to request that someone verify that the cited source supports the material in the passage, only after you have made a good faith attempt to verify the information yourself, and you still have good reason to question whether the source is correct

Dollar amounts
US$: The movie cost US$82,604,699 in 1979.

US$ w/inflation: The movie cost US$82,604,699 1979.

Inflation: The movie cost $82,604,699 in 1979.

Format price with Inflation: The movie cost $ in 1979 ($ in ).

Numeric values
val: Formatting, layout (no wrap, etc), sortability, and unit wikilinking.
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10^: Focuses on formatting just the part. Note e is an alias.

scinote:

See Category:Mathematical_function_templates for things like
 * round

Deep linking to sections
Use one of these:
 * → Pioneer anomaly
 * → "Description" on Pioneer anomaly

Section $Π$
The above section heading includes use of template math

Section μ
The above section heading does not include templates

Misc
(with nolink=yes) (without nolink=yes)

This is a ref to a note (not a ref to cite). The note appears later (not in references section)


 * The odds are only 1-in-231

Meta templates
(and related) refer to templates without running the template

produces: