User:Meni Rosenfeld/Toolset
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[edit] ToDo
[edit] Really, Really Important things
- For content errors in an article, click on "edit this page" or "discussion" at that particular article.
- sign your posts on talk and discussion pages using four tildes.
- See Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress to report persistent vandalism.
- See Wikipedia:Help desk for questions about editing on Wikipedia.
- See Wikipedia:Reference desk for factual questions (about everything but Wikimedia) not yet answered by Wikipedia.
- See Wikipedia:Village pump for policy and technical information.
- See Wikipedia:General complaints for discussions on things that could be fixed or made better.
- See Wikipedia:Resolving disputes to resolve issues between/among users.
- See MediaWiki support page if you need help with your own Wiki.
- See Alternate Sites For When The Main Wikipedia Server Is Down You should bookmark the sites noted because once Wikipedia is down, you won't be able to access this page.
- IF YOU HAVE REALLY MESSED UP A PAGE, and accidentally saved it, simply click on the history tab (at the top) and then click on the date immediately preceding that of your change, then click on edit this page, then save the resulting page. This will revert the change.
- Do Not Attempt to Rename, Move, or Copy a Page Simply by Copying Its Contents; See Renaming, moving, copying a page.
[edit] Spelling/Grammar checking
'Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!
[edit] Information & Resources for Contributors & Editors
| This is clearly not an exhaustive list. It is an eclectic collection intended to include the main features of Wikimedia, especially those not likely to reveal themselves easily to the novice. However, most of the very advanced features are not referenced here. (Note for Gen X, Y, Z, etc.— Think of Wikipedia, and Wikimedia in general, as a giant adventure game, where there is always something new around the corner...) |
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[edit] More Style Stuff:
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[edit] Summary:
- Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard... But I would suggest using the "New Scientist" as a style example).
- ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
- If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
- Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
- Eschew argot, jargon, technicality and cant.
[edit] Formating:
- See Help:Editing
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Indenting by one space causes this box to form and suppresses certain codes.
[edit] Images
To insert an image into an article, edit the article and insert
[[Image:FILENAME.jpg| -- | -- | -- |Caption]]
For example, [[Image:Wiki Fairy.gif|thumb|right|160px|[[Wikipedia:WikiFairy|A Wiki fairy in the wild.]]]] Gives you the image on the right, where the caption is a wiki-link.
To have an image deleted, edit its description page and put
{{deletebecause|redundant to image FOO.jpg}} (but of course you would insert the name of the FOO.jpg image. Everything to the right of the | is comment. )
[edit] Redirects
- Help on Redirect
- Wikipedia Redirect (formatting)
#REDIRECT [[NAME OF REDIRECT TARGET]]
To go (back) to a redirect page itself (e.g., to change or delete the redirect), click http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X_page&redirect=no and change the page name (here X_page) in the address bar of your browser. Type it in canonical form, i.e., starting with a capital letter and using underscores for spaces.)
[edit] Box Formats
| Date | rank - name | main space edits |
edits last 30 days |
rank change |
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| Month 27, 200x | 000 UserName | 0000 | 000 | ↑ 000 |
[edit] Formatting ISBN
- simply typing ISBN 3-540-60521-5 produces the special reference display ISBN 3-540-60521-5
[edit] $$$ Barnstar:
Be generous in your Barnstar awards.
| Image:$$$ barnstar.png|Identify Barnstar | Congratulations!!! I hereby award a $$$ Barnstar to SomeEditor for Some Reason beyond the call of duty!
UserName ~date~ (UTC) |
[edit] Test Templates:
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The template {{TestTemplates}} is deprecated. Please use {{WP:UTM}} instead. |
These templates should always be used with the subst: keyword, as suggested on Wikipedia:Template substitution. They are shown without subst: here to reduce the space occupied by this large table. For example, type {{subst:test}}, not {{test}}, to warn common first-time vandals.
| Category | Experimenting and vandalism | ||||||
| Level: | 0: New user, AGF | 1: Factual note | 2: Could be seen as vandalism | 3: Warning to stop | 4: Final warning | 5: Blocked | 6: Block & severe warning |
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| Generic Hover over the template syntax to see a summary of the contents. |
{{warn}} {{test-self}} |
{{test}} {{tests}} {{test0}} |
{{test2}} | {{vand3}} | {{test4}} | {{test5}} {{test5i}} |
{{test6}} {{vblock}} {{Vbc}} {{genblock}} {{vandalblock}} |
| Obvious vandalism Hover over the template syntax to see a summary of the contents. | {{vw}} | {{blatantvandal}} {{longterm4im}} {{test4im}} {{anon vandal}} |
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| Removing content Hover over the template syntax to see a summary of the contents. | {{test1a}} | {{test2del}} {{test2a}} |
{{Crwarn}} {{test3a}} |
{{Crfinal}} {{test4a}} |
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| Blanking pages Hover over the template syntax to see a summary of the contents. | {{blank}} | {{blank2}} | {{blank3}} | {{blank4}} | {{blank5}} | ||
| Page moves and naming conventions |
{{NC0}} | {{mp1}} | {{mp2}} | {{mp3}} | {{mp4}} | ||
| Anonymous vandals | {{sharedwelcome}} | {{sharedIP}} {{ipowner}} |
{{test3ip}} {{Anon vandal}} |
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| Image vandalism | {{image1}} | {{image2}} | {{image3}} {{imageow3}} |
{{image4}} | |||
| Use of multiple IPs | {{multipleIPs}} | {{MIPblock}} | |||||
| Vandalizing userpages | {{tpv0}} | {{tpv1}} | {{tpv2}} | {{tpv3}} | {{tpv4}} | {{tpv5}} | |
| Creating inappropriate pages | {{Test1article}} | {{Test2article}} | {{Test3article}} | {{Test4article}} | {{Test5article}} {{Article5i}} |
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| Category | Other problems with content | ||||||
| Level: | 0: Assuming good faith | 1: Factual note | 2: Possible rule violation | 3: Warning to stop | 4: Final warning | 5: Blocked | 6: Block & severe warning |
| Adding spam/advertising material | {{spam-warn}} {{spam-notice}} |
{{advert1}} {{resume}} |
{{advert2}} | {{advert3}} | {{advert4}} | {{advert5}} | |
| Adding spam links | {{spam0}} {{Welcomespam}} {{Spam (good faith)}} |
{{spam1}} {{spam note}} |
{{spam2}} {{spam2a}} |
{{spam3}} | {{spam4}} {{spam4im}} |
{{spam5}} {{spam5i}} |
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| Conflict of interest (Vanity)/user pages in article space |
{{ConflictOfInterest}} | {{userfy warning}} {{Trumpet}} |
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| Adding non-notable material | {{nn-test}} | {{nn-warn}} {{nn-notice}} {{empty-warn}} |
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| Not adhering to NPOV Hover over the template syntax to see a summary of the contents. (Up to level 2.) |
{{welcomenpov}} {{NPOV0a}} {{talkinarticle]]}} |
{{NPOV0}} | {{comment2}} | {{comment3}} | {{comment4}} | {{comment5}} | |
| Introducing material without proper citations |
{{needsource}} {{User-OR}} |
{{needsource2}} | {{speculationwarning}} {{sw}} |
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| Adding unreferenced negative information to biographies of living persons | {{blp0}} | {{blp1}} | {{blp2}} | {{blp3}} | |||
| Introducing factual errors |
{{verror}} | {{verror2}} | {{verror3}} | {{verror4}} | |||
| Adding copyrighted text | {{nothanks}} {{nothanks-add}} {{nothanks-drm}} {{nothanks-sd}} |
{{cv}} {{cv-r}} {{Usrcvtext}} |
{{cv4}} | ||||
| Posting off-topic messages |
{{talkinarticle}} | {{mess1}} | {{mess2}} {{mess2-n}} |
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| Using improper humor | {{behave}} {{joke}} |
{{Silly}} | {{funnybut}} | {{seriously}} | |||
| Category | Other editing issues | ||||||
| Level: | 0: Assuming good faith | 1: Factual note | 2: Possible rule violation | 3: Warning to stop | 4: Final warning | 5: Blocked | 6: Block & severe warning |
| Violating three-revert rule |
{{3RR4}} | {{3RR}} | {{3RR5}} {{3RR5-multi}} |
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| Removing/censoring explicit material |
{{Not censored}} | {{Not censored 2}} | |||||
| Introducing stylistic problems | {{Mos0}} {{italicize}} {{SpellCheck}} {{lang0}} |
{{Grammar1}} | {{Mos2}} {{dates2}} {{lang2}} |
{{Mos3}} {{dates3}} {{lang3}} |
{{lang4}} | {{lang5}} | |
| Royalty stylistic problems | {{rn2}} {{styles2}} |
{{rn3}} {{styles3}} |
{{rn4}} {{styles4}} |
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| Edit summaries Hover over the template syntax to see a summary of the contents. |
{{minor}} {{preview}} {{summary}} |
{{Edit summary personal}} {{editsummary}} {{summary2}} {{wrongsummary1}} |
{{wrongsummary2}} | {{Edit summary personal 3}} {{wrongsummary3}} |
{{Edit summary personal 4}} | ||
| Other editing-related warnings |
{{tilde}} {{Google bug}} {{cutpastemove}} {{Moving pages}} {{seelink}} {{notyours}} {{badcat}} {{pagemove}} {{c&pmove}} |
{{removewarn}} {{Notenglish0}} |
{{mcn2}} {{attack}} |
{{TestTalk}} {{TestTalk-edit}} |
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| Category | Behaviour messages | ||||||
| Level: | 0: Assuming good faith | 1: Factual note | 2: Possible rule violation | 3: Warning to stop | 4: Final warning | 5: Blocked | 6: Block & severe warning |
| Personal attacks | {{npa2}} | {{npa3}} | {{npa4}} {{npa4im}} |
{{npa5}} | {{npa6}} | ||
| Defamation of other users |
{{ladnav}} | {{defwarn}} | {{defban}} | ||||
| Assuming bad faith | {{agf1}} | {{agf3}} | |||||
| Posting other users' personal information |
{{pinfo4}} | {{pinfo5}} | |||||
| Threatening legal action against other users |
{{threat2}} | {{threat4}} | {{threatban}} | ||||
| Inappropriate username | {{Username-Warn}} | {{usernameblock}} | |||||
| Other | {{canvass}} | {{sockblockdodge}} | |||||
| Category | Process-related and clerical messages | ||||||
| Level: | 0: Informative | 1: Factual note | 2: Possible rule violation | 3: Warning to stop | 4: Final warning | 5: Blocked | 6: Block & severe warning |
| Removing {{afd}} templates | {{drmafd}} | {{drmafd2}} | {{drmafd3}} | {{drmafd4}} | {{drmafd5}} | ||
| Removing speedy deletion templates |
{{drmspeedy}} | {{drmspeedy2}} | {{drmspeedy3}} | {{drmspeedy4}} | {{drmspeedy5}} | ||
| Removing maintenance notices |
{{drmmt}} | {{drmmt3}} | |||||
| Recreating deleted articles |
{{repost-warn}} | {{recreated}} | |||||
| 'Block clerical' tags | {{vandalism watch}} {{blocknumbers}} {{Request accepted}} {{request denied}} |
{{repeat vandal}} | {{arbcom}} {{block}} {{blocked user}} {{sockblock}} {{indefblockeduser}} {{Miniblocked}} |
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| Category | Miscellaneous | ||||||
| Level: | 0: Assuming good faith | 1: Factual note | 2: Possible rule violation | 3: Warning to stop | 4: Final warning | 5: Blocked | 6: Block & severe warning |
| Image, fair use and tagging (see also image vandalism) |
{{badfairuse}} {{image copyright}} {{image source}} {{name your images}} {{nothanks}} {{nothanks-sd}} |
{{Image no source last warning}} {{insertimage4}} |
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| Sandbox | {{Off-sandbox}} | {{Sandbox-head}} | |||||
| voting related | {{newvoter}} {{newvoterip}} |
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| IP bots | {{NoIPbots}} | {{IPbotblock}} | |||||
Miscellaneous Please do not add a template here unless it does not match any other category above. |
{{subst}} {{Sofixit}} |
{{Nothere}} | |||||
To coordinate numbers, the previous blanking 2, 3, and 4 templates have been moved because they were out of sync with the numbering usage with other templates. The old templates, though not listed, can still be used as they redirect to the new name and number.
The numbering system being used across the templates is simple:
- 0. Good faith edit
- 1. General note
- 2. Could be seen as vandalism
- 3. Warning to stop
- 4. Final warning
- 5. Blocked
- 6. Blocked plus severe warning
If you are creating new templates, please follow the numbers above, even if you are not creating templates using all the numbers. That way, by using the right number, users will be able to know automatically what category of message the template refers to.
