User:PointyOintment/shortcuts

This page lists other pages that I find helpful to refer to in my editing. You might find them helpful too.

Wiki editing references

 * Cheatsheet – Not that useful for me; I'm usually looking up how to do more advanced stuff.
 * Wikitext – The one I usually want. How to do just about everything.
 * List
 * Table
 * Template – Reference for creation, editing, and usage of templates.
 * Help navbox
 * Manual of Style navbox

Templates

 * WikiProject Templates
 * Template messages (navbox of)
 * For articles & article talk pages
 * General – disambiguation, redirection, section main article hatnotes, footnotes & references, time-related, title technical, special character notices, expansion requests
 * Explanatory footnotes (not mentioned in that list)
 * Citations (category of) – templates for citing various kinds of media
 * Cleanup (navbox of inline ones) – organized by topic: multi-issue combined boxes, copied & pasted content, general cleanup & rewrite, subject-specified cleanup, copyediting, writing style, structure, scope, unwanted content, bad text formatting, lacking context, excessive/lacking info or detail, topic deviation, lacking citation specifications, expert attention, time-related (different selection than General has), confusion, bad summary of corresponding main article in detail article, notability, neutrality, verifiability, categorization, images/media cleanup & requests, list cleanup, technical cleanup
 * Also has a bit of guidance on using cleanup tags at the top, and a breakdown of the cleanup backlog at the bottom
 * Deletion – article & talk page notices
 * Disputes – organized by intended placement: top of article or section, top of article, top of section, inline, talk page
 * Formatting – text columns, multiple images in one frame, hide/show content, keyboard keys, flat list
 * Compact tables of contents
 * Hatnotes
 * Links – special ways of linking to specific things, both internal and external
 * internal (category of): to main articles, formatted on disambiguation pages, about German personal titles, country flag & name
 * external (category of): pieces of media, geography, databases about media, Bible verses, other wikis & databases, etc.
 * Lists – status, issues, navigation
 * Maintenance – major edits in progress, new articles, protection status, copyright, certain specific article issues, categorization
 * Merging – suggested merging, merged, merged instead of deleted, suggested splitting
 * Moving – requested moves, category rename proposals, title cleanup, suggested split, suggested move to userspace
 * Splitting
 * Sister projects – links to related content on other WMF wikis
 * Sources – multi-issue combined boxes, copied & pasted content, verifiability & sources for BLPs, issues with verifiability & sources, source search suggestions, notices of legitimate incorporation of third-party content, citations of specific sources
 * Standard boxes – calendars, diagram builders, unit converters, time converters, periodic table
 * Stub types
 * Talk: (guideline about)
 * WikiProject banners
 * Template:Done/See also – reply templates in the style of ✅
 * Translation – suggestions, requests, cleanup
 * Technical, non-article namespaces, inter-wiki linking
 * Deletion – discussion, file notices, suggestions to deleting admin
 * Formatting – divbox, userbox container, keyboard keys, flat list
 * Compact tables of contents for categories
 * Links – to templates, with tools
 * Moving – requested moves (incl. technical), category rename proposals, can be/will be/was copied to another wiki, file shadows Commons
 * Redirect (navbox of) – redirect reasons, talk page of, printworthiness, rcats, multi-rcat shell, category of, deprecated template redirect, category redirect, soft redirect
 * Sister projects – suggested/completed move/copy of content to other WMF wikis
 * By namespace:
 * Category:
 * File:
 * Template:
 * User:
 * Welcomes (table of, category of)
 * Warnings (category of, WikiProject)
 * User talk:
 * Wikipedia:
 * Infoboxes (list of, category of, WikiProject)
 * Navigation templates (navboxes & sidebars)
 * Most-transcluded templates; unused templates

Articles to be created

 * WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic Articles
 * Most-wanted articles – by number of redlinks
 * Requested articles index

Other

 * Words most commonly used as article title disambiguators – as of May 2009