User:Reagle/examples

This page exemplifies trickier Wikipedia syntax you might need to use. Feel free to edit source and copy it as needed.

= Permanent links and diffs =

Every time you save/publish a page, you create a new version in its history -- designated by the  number seen in the page's URL/addressbar.

In Wikipedia discussion, you often need to reference versions ("permalink") of a page and the differences ("diffs") between them using the. There's a few ways to do this. I like to use Special:Permalink and Special:Diff, you can also use an external link (placing a complete URL in single brackets, which shows the external icon "".) For example:


 * a version ("permalink") of a page: Special:Permalink/623998644 or.
 * the difference ("diff") between
 * two versions (i.e., ): Special:Diff/623998644/927024688 or.
 * a version and its previous: Special:Diff/623998644/prev or.
 * a version and the current version: Special:Diff/623998644/cur or.

And you can, of course, use a nicer name for any of these links.

= Citations =

As I describe elsewhere, I prefer the sfn template for citations. If you are using the VisualEditor or cite template, you'll have to do the following.

Citing with a page number
The brontosaurus is thin at the head. Then it becomes much thicker in the middle. Then thin again at the tail

Indirect citation
The Ultrasaurus has a long neck.

[In this case, we read in Elk (on page 5) claimed that Dilinger (1968) reported that the Ultrasaurus had a long neck.]