User:Peter Campbell/Useful stuff

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[edit] Templates & markup etc

  • WP:TUSER templates for user messages and warnings
  • {{subst:anon}} Welcome to Wikipedia - anon user (IP address)
  • {{subst:welcome2}} Welcome to Wikipedia - new user
  • ({{subst:test1}} {{subst:test2}} {{subst:test3}} {{subst:test4}}) Vandalism warnings
  • Wikipedia:Template messages
  • {{unreferencedsect}} Unreferenced section tag
  • {{fact}} Citation needed: Looks like: [citation needed]
  • {{Fact|date=February 2007}} Citation with date
  • {{who}}) Attribution needed. Looks like: [who?])
  • {{unsourced}} Puts a box in the article stating that sources are required.
  • Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/00.00.00.00|00.00.00.00]] ([[User_Talk:00.00.00.00|talk]]) to last version by Username
  • Wikipedia:Userboxes
  • Referencing Userboxes {{subst: user nameofbox}}
  • {{SectOR}} Original research or unverified claims warning box
  • {{WPBiography|living=yes|class=|importance=}} Biography template for article talk pages
  • <pre> </pre> Stops formatting of text too.
  • <!-- comment text --> To add comment text within and article
  • <br/> Force new line
  • {{SubArticle|Windows Vista}} Subarticle template - put on Talk page of article
  • {{see also|Results of the Victorian legislative election, 2006}} - put in article to show subarticle
  • {{main|Victorian legislative election, 2006}} Put at start of subarticle to designate parent
  • {{update}} Flag article for update needed
  • [[Image:Kitesurf jump aerial.jpg|thumb|right|370px|Jumping.]] Image tag with sizing and positioning
  • <big>Big text</big> Big text
  • [[:w:en:User:Peter Campbell]] Add this to other wikis to reference Wikipedia user account

Box with a border: text in here

  • {{db-userreq}} Requested for user subpage to be deleted by the user with whom it is associated.
  • Wikipedia:Gallery tag for photo galleries
  • Place the {{unsigned}} template on a talk page and requested pages when a user adds a comment and forgets to sign. (User:HagermanBot).
  • <nowiki>text</nowiki> tags to prevent wiki markup language between them being read

[edit] Indented list

  • ;Category name:indented text follows
Looks like
point 1
point 2

[edit] Gallery syntax for images

The basic syntax is:

<gallery>
Image:Wiki.png
Image:Wiki.png|Captioned
Image:Wiki.png
Image:Wiki.png|[[Help:Contents/Links|Links]] can be put in captions.
Image:Wiki.png
Image:Wiki.png|Full [[MediaWiki]]<br />[[syntax]] may now be used…
</gallery>

[edit] Shortcuts

[edit] Unsigned edit ID example

{{subst:unsigned|user name|date}}

user name 
name or IP of user who left comment
date 
datestamp from edit history (remember to label it UTC)

Looks like: —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.121.179.186 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] General items

[edit] Some tips from User:ScottDavis's page

Good ways of increasing your edit count include

[edit] Press References

{{authoronlinesource2006|section=Month
| author=author name
| title=article title
| org=source (e.g. newspaper or journal)
| url=http://www.url.com/1.html
| date=Monday DD, YYYY }}

And update Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2006

Shortcut:
WP:SOURCE

[edit] Quotation template

{{cquote|Quoted text looks like this|20px|20px|[[Bill Thompson]]| [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4534712.stm What is it with Wikipedia?]}}

“ Quoted text looks like this ”

—Bill Thompson, What is it with Wikipedia?

[edit] Links to other wikis

  • See [[:Wikipedia:User:Peter Campbell]] Link to Wikipedia user page (to put on user page of other wikis)

[edit] Simple table markup

{| 
|-
! header 1
! header 2
! header 3
|-
| row 1, cell 1
| row 1, cell 2
| row 1, cell 3
|-
| row 2, cell 1
| row 2, cell 2
| row 2, cell 3
|}