User:Steelpillow/Wiki tips

Policy & discussions

 * Ignore all rules
 * Ignore all rules: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it."
 * The List of policies interprets this as, "Any policy, guideline or other rule may be ignored if it hinders improving Wikipedia."


 * Be bold
 * Be bold: "Be bold ... but ... not too bold."
 * Be bold, revert, discuss (WP:BRD) gambit.


 * Challenging another's edit
 * When challenging another user's edits, "Any editor has the right to challenge unsourced material by opening a discussion on the talk page or by tagging it. Material that should be removed without discussion includes contentious material about a living person, clear examples of original research, and anything that is ludicrous or damaging to the project."
 * To tag inline material in need of referencing, use:
 * For behaviour issues, WP:ANI - but try WP:DR first.
 * For behaviour issues, WP:ANI - but try WP:DR first.


 * Notability etc:
 * WP:GNG
 * WP:ONUS
 * WP:REMOVAL

To copy the URL for the diff, right-click on its (prev) button and select "Copy link location".
 * Referencing a diff

Alternatively, while you are viewing the diff, copy its URL from the address bar. This is the only way for a series of edits.


 * Animated images

To stop an animation, make it a thumbnail.

See MOS:ACCESS.

To be accessible, an animation (GIF – Graphics Interchange Format) should either:
 * not exceed a duration of five seconds (which results in making it a purely decorative element), or
 * be equipped with control functions (stop, pause, play). 

In short, most animated GIFs should be converted to video (to learn how, see the tutorial converting animated GIFs to Theora OGG).

Move requests

 * Requesting a single page move

Click the "New Section" tab on the talk page and insert

Proposed new name


 * Requesting multiple page moves

Up to 30 related moves may be requested at once, using a single template. On one of the talk pages of the affected articles, create a request and format it as below. A sample request for two page moves is shown here. For three page moves, add lines for current3 and new3, following this pattern. This template does not work properly with some titles - if you have trouble, eliminate the current1 line and start with new1.

Requested move
RMCD bot automatically places a notice section on the talk page of the additional pages that are included in your request.

result of the discussion. discussion content
 * Closing the discussion

Admin stuff

 * Keep an eye on Pending changes in case it resurrects (and I keep my Reviewer status).
 * Reviewing process for Pending changes.
 * – Userbox to show reviewer status
 * – Topicon to show reviewer status
 * Requests for permissions
 * WP:RFP/R - Requests for rollback privilege.

Off-wiki resources

 * http://stats.grok.se

Multiple references
To add multiple references to a single source, do:
 * To a document not in bibliography

then subsequently just do:

For more, see Template:sfn
 * To a document in the bibliography
 * 1) For the doc citation use ref=harv
 * 2) For the inline cite use.

Lack of references

 * Useful info
 * Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources


 * Banners
 * - see template:Refimprove/doc for full usage.


 * Inline citations

Inline citations
Per WP:CITEDENSE:
 * Wikipedia does not have a "one inline citation per sentence" or "one citation per paragraph" rule, even for featured articles.
 * Some sections (e.g., dense technical subjects) may even require more than one inline citation per sentence. Other [sections] may not require any inline citations at all. (my bold)
 * And re. the example it gives, Everything in that paragraph deals with the same, single subject from the same source and can therefore be supported by a single inline citation.

Misc formatting

 * Language locales:
 * Use Use British English, or more generally Use [Language] English.

When the indents get beyond a joke, to reduce indentation and add a little indicator line, do:
 * "Outdent" a discussion comment:

where the number of colons gives the number of outdent steps.

Until CSS3 becomes more widespread, use: Column 1 content Column 2 content ... Column n content
 * Columns

Collapsible things
Tables, Nav frames and Nav boxes can all collapse:

Tables
See Help:Collapsing, Template:Navbar-collapsible


 * See also
 * class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"

Nav frames

 * These are now deprecated. We should be using the,   and   CSS classes instead.

See NavFrame, Template:Navbar-navframe  [Heading] or [content]

This one should start out expanded:
 * Expanded

Heading content

And this one should start out collapsed:
 * Collapsed with navbar

Hopefully the v.d.e links will work when the code goes in a template.

content

Nav boxes
See Template:Navbox/doc, Template:Navbar-header

Prerequisites

 * MediaWiki:Common.css - CSS styling
 * MediaWiki:Common.js - javascript code
 * Client browser is javascript enabled