User:Rev-san/Wikipedia cheatsheet

Tables

 * online MediaWiki table editor: tablesgenerator.com

List-defined references (LDR), with optional notes

 * At the article's top, use:

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 * In the article's body, use:

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 * In the (optional) Notes section, use:

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 * In the References section, use:

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Citation templates

 * Without archive links:

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 * With archive links:

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The  parameter can be either ,  ,  ,   or. refers to the original URL in the  parameter.


 * For Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) links, use the  iframe flag in the URL to remove the navigational toolbar:

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instead of

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Archival sites
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org

Archive.today (aka Archive.is): https://archive.today (redirects to the best available mirror)

Other useful templates

 * To use the day-month-year format and force CS1 citation templates to use DMY:

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