User:Trafford09/Assorted tips

Tips
There is a set of about 90 Wikipedia:Special:xyz pages - e.g. Wikipedia:Special:MostLinked. See:
 * Help:Special page for a neat list, with descriptions,
 * Special:SpecialPages for the list you get when you click anytime on 'Tools > Special pages' on the left-hand side of any WP page (without descriptions), or
 * a full search list here.

Templates
Here's a colour. Here's another.

Adding   to an article's talk page produces:


 * See Template:Image requested for documentation re using the above & allied media-requesting templates.
 * However, it seems best to use extra parameters, as in this suggested improvement.

Get emoticons like by using various images at Emoticons (or smiley for short). And, you can make them bigger: However, others may be better, e.g. this 'blushing' one:. And there are many more useful [emot]icons here. Archive my Talk page                      ✅ (Use template:Done to produce this Done + tick). Also, icons like this - Note: - are described here.

Warning msgs. , and again in a colourful table.

Wiktionary links. See also , as in the WP article brickbat,

and over 1,000 others also in Category:Redirects to Wiktionary.

Some more:
 * oxlyrics.com gives:


 * 123.24.78.24 gives:

AnyUserName gives:

Template:Archiveme adds friendly msg. to talk pages with >10 sections.

Can we rid WP of ? See User:Trafford09/AWB-WL. (Note use of template:search link.)

Template:flatlist ... enables you to put a

in

between

parts

of a list

like this & many other examples above!

Template:Colour enables you to make text green, purple! or indeed any colour.
 * See Web_colors for the whole range of colours.
 * (Don't use, as it does so on a new, indented line.)

See the disambiguation page Ubuntu, where both the following templates are used. Both templates have further parameters:
 * Lookfrom searches for page titles which start with given words, and
 * Intitle searches for pages which contain given words anywhere in their title.

Template:dynamic list produces this:

Sometimes people cite references even in Talk pages, which causes problems unless one uses say template:reflist-talk; see Talk:Go (game) for an example of its usage.

Today, there are Administrators - see Help:Magic_words for more.

See these (as used in AIUI):
 * AIUI
 * Wikidata redirect

To warn not to include WP:Red links, see Template:Editnotices/Page/List of Argentines. See also WP:TIPS, and then in this order:
 * Template:Editnotices/Page/Martínez_(surname)
 * WP:EDNO
 * WP:TPED
 * Template_editor et cetera.

Suggestededit-add 1.0 explains why some edit summaries have this (un?)helpful summary, and ...

... mw:Suggested edits sheds further light on that, and ...

... User_talk:Enterprisey shows when I queried a (ro)Bot expert regarding this, and ...

... User:Qwerfjkl kindly gave more info.. I guess that (talk page stalker) is well up on things wm: and (ro)Bots.

General
See Banning policy e.g. for how Community Bans work.

If your user name is still in red, then please read this. Also, see Why create an account?.

To see a user's voting on RfAs:. For this & other tools, see User:Vipinhari - thx.

This shows an editor's contribution count per month (incl. wp:ES-usage).

Here's a neater, more professional-looking User page than mine.

Here are ways of searching Wikipedia articles for set text.

Dubious links: do you want colours to highlight these for you? Then see here.

For quotes etc. on coloured background, see this.

To see what DAB work needs doing on a project, see this tool.

Here's a list of 'Alt+' codes for Windows keyboards.

Tools/Optimum tool set.

This neatly compares the hits on multiple WP articles.

Why we keep getting "Done, but with errors on page.".

HELPMEBOT explains IRC commands (e.g. !helpme).

Google can translate. Check if an IP is shared by performing a WHOIS and Reverse DNS lookup query on the IP.

The above is to determine if the IP belongs to a school or a proxy server.

Manual of Style: (dates and numbers) Year-numbering systems.

Wikiquette alerts e.g. to discuss editors' perceived faults (maybe prior to arbitration).

Also see Editor assistance and Deny recognition.

Today's patrol-count for a sister-project 'wikiHow'.

What do Wikipedians look like? There are regular meetings in several continents.

One can search a user's Edit Summaries like that.

See how 2 users have interacted, using 'IntersectContribs' from tools.

External links to a given external URL can be made like this.

You can show a user's rights as in that blue example.

Use However, this alternative category tree method arguably gives more info. (C = no. of Categories, P = no. of Pages [articles]), albeit in a separate tab.

Using     around text - e.g.    - saves that text being interpreted by Wikipedia.

On any page's revision history ( like https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Papers_(information_leaks)&action=history ), there is a line, near the top, like this: "External tools:
 * From any revision history page

Find addition/removal (Alternate) Find edits by user (Alternate) Page statistics Pageviews Fix dead links".

If you click on Pageviews, you can get into https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Trafford09  which is interesting.

Random non-WP snippets
[http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=luhg&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-awhat? This] and this explain "Love United, Hate Glazer" LUHG.

For those with views on shooting & blood 'sport's: "No court proceedings for beating crows to death" See this if you normally like cats, and this if you like polar bears.

Here's a Tony Hart memorial. One can use and , to preserve spaces, say in a table, like this example: 12086217	Fisher	Jason	UK	Bmhm	8k	1196	9	0 16486019	Eccles	Joe	UK	Bmhm	9k	1244	7	3678 18250023	Chen	Barton	UK	Bmhm	1d	2109	1	891 10874820	Cao	Xinjin	UK	Bmhm	4d	2394	1	0

The BBC says "Around half of Mumbai's population live in slums.".