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  • 9/17/17: in [Rhys Hoskins], re pronunciation of Rhys, SEE [Dellin Betances] and [Help:IPA/English]
  • 9/14/17: ADD to [Phils awards]: Rookie of the Month
  • 9/10/17: ADD to Paul Owens Award section of [PHL awards]: https://thatballsouttahere.com/2017/09/07/phillies-eshelman-kingery-owens/
  • 9/6/17: ADD: [Atlanta Falcons Ring of Honor]
  • 7/8/17: at [Mexico City], add "Distrito Federal ceased on 1/2016" (in lead's final para) to (1) "History (20th c)" and (2) "Politics"
  • 6/14/17: at [Metroplis (religious jurisdiction)], add reverted edit re 2 metropolitan dioceses (Rome & Westminster), including Westminster Diocese website and Catholic-Hierarchy page re Diocese of Rome (and its suffragan sees)
  • 5/30/17: add to US Mil Archdiocese & US Army Chaplains - article (in OneNote/Religion) re last chaplain to die in WWI
  • 4/11/17: work on new article - User:Eagle4000/United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame
  • 5/23/17: create Association of Minor League Umpires
  • 5/1/17: add [Category:Disabled sports organisations]] to each org that is in a "disabled sport" category, but is not in a national subcategory (e.g., Amer disabled sports org's)
  • At College Athletics in the US, add College club sports in US
  • 3/30/17: At [Little League Baseball #MLB Players]], reformat into a footnote, add text re "incomplete list", add 4 columns
  • 3/31/17: At [Baseball America]], type "ref name=awards/>" in place of each deadline for various minor-league etc awards, incl fn's 40-45
  • 4/7/17: At [NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Opening Round]], revise lead, to reflect there are now 4 games instead of one.
  • 4/22/17: at [Touchdown Club of Columbus]], check redirects and add to "College COY awards in US"
  • 5/1/17: Rutgers seal is at [Rutgers Sch of Nursing]
  • 5/5/17: create redirects for USAF Med Corps and other Air Force and Army corps; and for heads of each med-related corps
  • 5/28/17: add to [Four Chaplains]]: footnote re Four Chaplains chapel (from [[Phila Naval Shipyard]

Help needed

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  • [[Help:Archiving a talk page
  • [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
  • [[Wikipedia:Rollback feature

message to user

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Hello, Eagle4000. You have new messages at Eagle4000's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

In general

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  • Gym: [Wesley Brown Field House]]; [Exercise equipment]], [Health club]], [locker rooms]], [locker (cabinet)|lockers]], [Physical fitness]],
  • [Scoreboard]], [Jumbotron]]
  • [Sports equipment]], [Sports medicine|sports-medicine]] facility, [Training#Physical training]], [Health club|weight room]], [weight training]]
  • Online voting: [Open access poll]]

Anchor a section name before editing

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  • [Template:Anchor]] (re anchoring a section name before changing it)
  • See [Minor League Baseball #History]

Archiving a talk page

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[[Help:Archiving a talk page

Article title display

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Asterisk

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To use an asterisk at end of an entry (for purposes of an end-of-section note, instead of a footnote), see: #End-of-section device (below).

Baseball years

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  • { (twice) + mlby|2001 + } [twice] gives "2001 Major League Baseball season"
  • { (twice) + by|2007 + } [twice] gives "2007 baseball year"
  • { (twice) + wsy|2007 + } [twice] gives "2007 World Series"

Bullet

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 ·

Categorization

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[[Wikipedia:Categorization #Content of category pages

See also on category page -- Error: 'name of second cat
Container cat

2 open braces + "container cat" + 2 close braces

Category tree

See below, at "Miscellaneous: Category tree (details), TOC, subcats note"

Category TOC

See below, at "Miscellaneous: Category tree (details), TOC, subcats note"

Subcats note

See below, at "Miscellaneous: Category tree (details), TOC, subcats note"

Order of listing

[Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization #In what order should categories be listed within the article?]]

Catholic Church articles

[[Index of Catholic Church articles]

Ceased

Use "folded" in info boxes

Citation forms

  • [Wikipedia:Citing sources]]
  • [Template:Cite journal]]
  • [Template:Cite web]]

Newspaper

[Template:Cite news]]

  • {citation' is not a valid category name (Template:Category see also).
  • "Red Foley Dies at 79; Scorer in 10 World Series". New York Times. The Associated Press. July 16, 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-19. He served for many years as an officer of the Baseball Writers' Association of America ...

Accessdate formula

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[Wikipedia:Citing sources/example style #Webpages (plain, permalinked, and archived)]]

See also: {{Cite web}}

Specific web pages (or sets of pages) are cited using a format similar to books. Here is a simple example of a reference to the definition of "open source" that was created on the date 2007-01-26:

  • {cite web
 | last = Perens
 | first = Bruce
 | title = The Open Source Definition (Annotated)
 | publisher = [[Open Source Initiative]
 | date = 2006-07-24
 | url = http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
 | accessdate = 2007-01-26 }}

Citation needed

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To search for a citation
go to www.newspapers.com
For one sentence

[citation needed] [citation needed]

For entire article

{Template:Refimprove}}

To highlight un-referenced sentence(s)

un-referenced material[citation needed]

Clear

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insert vertical line & close brace, i.e., |}

Columns

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  • To divide table into columns, see [Northern Collegiate Hockey Association#Champions]
    • At top, use 2 braces + div col + }} ; at bottom, use 2 braces + div col end + }}
  • 2 col's: see [San Francisco Bay Area #Higher education]]
  • Next to an image. See: [Philadelphia Phillies #Hall of Famers]]
  • Using "width" (e.g., 33%). First: 2 open braces + "col-begin" + 2 close braces. On next line (and at each break): 2 open braces + "col-break" + vertical line + "width=33%" + 2 close braces. At end: 2 open braces + "col-end" + 2 close braces. SEE [Academy of Television Arts & Sciences #Hall of Fame]]
  • Using "colbegin" and "colend". first: 2 open braces + "colbegin" + vert line + number of columns + 2 close braces
  • Using "div col". First: 2 open braces + "div col" + vertical line + number of columns + 2 close braces, and finally: 2 open braces + "div col end" + 2 close braces. See [Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA#See also]].
  • Using "multicol". First: 2 open braces + "multicol" + 2 close braces, then (once or twice): 2 open braces + "multicol-break" + 2 close braces, and finally: 2 open braces + "multicol-end" + 2 close braces
  • Using "MultiCol". First: 2 open braces + "MultiCol" + 2 close braces, then (once or twice): 2 open braces + "ColBreak" + 2 close braces, and finally: 2 open braces + "EndMultiCol" + 2 close braces
  • See: [Society for American Baseball Research #Past convention sites and featured speakers|SABR]] re code for aligning col's, so as to leave minimal space between them
  • References (2 columns): 2 open braces + reflist + vert line + 30em + 2 close braces

Compound adj's

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See [Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens]]

Conversion (dollars)

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US$20 (equivalent to $33.88 in 2023)

See also the formula used at Pontiac Silverdome, in infobox, re construction cost

Conversion templates (metric)

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[Template:Convert]]

Cross-ref's

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  • {{Details}} – this generates For more details on this topic, see
  • {{Further}} – this generates Further information:
  • {{Related}} – this generates Related terms:
  • {{See also}} – this generates See also

Dash

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  • — (em dash) [type: "&" + "mdash" + ";"]
  • – (en dash)
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[dead link]

Deceased (symbol)

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† = deceased

Default sort

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[2 open braces] + "DEFAULTSORT", colon, surname, comma, space, first name + [2 close braces]:

Dictionary

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Wiktionary link: sophomore

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Re bot, see [[User talk:DPL bot #bug in bot]

Discussion page

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If thread is too far to the right side of page, use "{" twice + "od" + "}" twice, to create a line that brings thread from right to left:

Displaying a formula

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[[Help:Displaying a formula]

Empty section

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End-of-section device

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Asterisk

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To use an asterisk at end of an entry (for purposes of an end-of-section note, instead of a footnote), see: [Minnesota Twins award winners and league leaders #Batting]].

Use "*" as an end-of-section device

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Put the note in parentheses, to protect the "*">

  • E.g., [Knights of Columbus#Assembly Function Order of Precedence]]:
  • District Master*

(*At a Fourth Degree function, the District Master and State Officers, Former Masters and District Deputies exchange positions.)

  • OR: put "<", "br", and ">" before the asterisk

Expand list

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Flag icon

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India United States [Cleveland]], [USA]]

Footnote (dates)

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  • May use "yyyy-mm-dd" format
    • [[MOS:DATEFORMAT] (from [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers])
    • Section link|WP:Citing sources|Citation style

Footnote (under "Notes")

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For explanatory footnotes (under "Notes"), see:

  • [2017 Las Vegas shooting]]
    • Note “a”: Two "open braces" + efn|name=Chaos&franticSearch|For (1) a graphic of the Route 91 Harvest Festival site (including the direction in which people fled, the bleachers under which people took cover, and an eight-foot fence over which people climbed), and (2) a diagram of the floor plan of the gunman’s hotel suite and adjacent room (with connecting door), go to: "Chaos at a Concert and a Frantic Search at Mandalay Bay". The New York Times. October 2, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2017. and scroll down to the fourth image (entitled “What happened at the concert venue", for the graphic of the Festival site) and then to the eighth image (for the diagram of the hotel suite's floor plan). }}
    • Subsequent cites to this note: Two "open braces" + efn|name=Chaos&franticSearch + two "close braces".
  • template at [Sinking of the RMS Titanic]] (in 1st para., at "ship's time")
  • template at [Monument Park (Yankee Stadium)]]

Footnote (in general)

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  • [Wikipedia:Footnotes]]
  • [Wikipedia:Manual of Style (footnotes)#Newline after closing ref tag|Insert a new line after "closing ref tag"]]

Footnote (newspaper)

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[Template:Cite news]] (look at edit box): {{cite news}}: Empty citation (help)

Footnote (table)

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Can use asterisk and other symbols, e.g. †, ‡ Place symbol in table and then below the table

Footnote (Web)

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(look at edit box): "Scott To Succeed Hooper". New York Times, 03-10-1921. Retrieved 2008-02-11.

Footnotes as explanatory notes

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Per [Wikipedia:Inline citation #Ref tags]], "[f]ootnotes (using the Cite.php system, usually called "<ref> tags") ... can be used for both bibliographic citations and also for explanatory notes."

Fractions

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250+23 innings pitched

Geographic neighbors

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For table of geographic neighbors, see [Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls]]

Headers

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  • Avoid links in headers, per [Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Section headings]].
  • If need to revise hdr, use an [Template:Anchor|anchor template]].

Hatnotes

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See: [[Category:Hatnote templates]

About; for

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See [Maine (province)]]

Not to be confused with

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Use braces + "distinguish" + vert line + page with similar name

For example, see [Arizona State University]]

Redirects from disambiguation

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Use braces + "redirect" + vert line + name of page that redirects to this page

Redirects to and from pages

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Use braces + page that redirects here + vert line + wording ( e.g., "For the English college" + name of target page

For an example, see Law school

Hidden note

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[Help:Hidden text]] See edit box, re use of <, !, & hyphens:

Hidden notes that display as a yellow and white box

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[citation needed]

Images & photos

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[Wikipedia:Picture tutorial]]

Indent

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Instead of a colon, use: 2 open braces + "indent" + vert line + "5" + 2 close braces

Italics

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word

Layout

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[Wikipedia:Layout]]

Markup

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[Help:Wiki markup]]

Measurements

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140,000-square-foot (13,000 m2)

60.5 meters (198 ft)

Multiple columns

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  • See also: [American football]] & [Golf]] (re portal & col's)

Non-breaking space

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"&" + "nbsp" + "semicolon symbol" — (as in " ")

Other uses & disambiguation

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{About|the title and office in religious bodies|other uses|Bishop (disambiguation)|bishops of the Roman Catholic Church|Bishop (Catholic Church)}}

This article refers to hierarchy in the [Roman Catholic Church|Catholic Church]]. For hierarchy in other communions with a "catholic" character, please see articles on the churches in question. For other uses, see [Hierarchy (disambiguation)]].

Quotation mark

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[Quotation mark #Punctuation]] (internal vs. external)

To add quote marks around a cross ref that needs to be italicized, use:

three braces + "em" + vert line + two brackets + page name + 2 brackets + 3 braces

Re-directs

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  • [Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages]
  • Reason why a link refers back to that same page (redirect): [Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame]] refers to [Science Museum Oklahoma]], e.g., [:Category:Aviation halls of fame]]
  • To ensure that a redirect will not break if a section title gets altered, or to create a redirect to a point on the page other than a section heading, create an explicit target anchor in the page, e.g. by using the {{anchor}} template. The anchor text will not be visible (unless the {{visible anchor}} template is used), but it will serve as a permanent marker of that place on the page. Editors should generally not remove or alter such anchors without checking all incoming links and redirects.
For example, in the [Google search]] article, the text {{anchor|Calculator}} is placed at the point where Google Calculator is described. The title [Google Calculator]] can then be redirected to [Google search#Calculator]].
e.g., [Mel Ott Award]] uses: #redirect [Mel Ott#melottaward]]{{R to anchor}}
This takes you to the first appearance of the words "melottaward" in the section
  • [Wikipedia:Redirect #Targeted and untargeted redirects]]:
 ==Vaccine overload==
 <!-- linked from redirect [[Vaccine overload]] -->
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  • Can add additional words and italics, as below:
See: {section link|Baseball awards|United States}}

For template for "See also" and a specific section, see: [Uniforms of the United States Navy#Flight deck]].

  • [Template:Section link]]
  • [Template:Multi-section link]]

Section order

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As set forth at [Wikipedia:Manual of Style (layout) #Standard appendices and footers]]:

  1. Works or Publications
  2. See also
  3. Notes and/or References
  4. Further reading
  5. External links[1]
  6. Navigation templates (footer navboxes)[2]
  7. [Help:Category#Default sort key|Defaultsort]]
  8. [Wikipedia:Categorization|Categories]][3]
  9. [Wikipedia:Stub templates|Stub template]]s
  10. [Help:Interlanguage links|Interlanguage links]]

Sort order

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([Help:Category]]):

Via observation on various category pages: hyphen( - ), exclamation point (!), blacked-in square ( ), asterisk (*), pound sign (#), upward caret (^), plus sign (+), right caret (>)

ALSO:

  • ampersand (&) is below asterisk (*) AND above upward caret (^)
  • tilde sign (~) is below plus sign (+)
  • tilde sign (~) is below open paren ( "(" )

(Blank) sign (. ) is below , but above


Below asterisk (but in no order):

Not used by Wikipedia for sort order: !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>? @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_ `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~?

Stubs

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  • [[:Category:Stub categories]
  • {RC-stub}}

Table of contents

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  • TOC box on right: type open-brace symbol ( { ) twice + "TOCright" + close-brace symbol ( } ) twice.
  • Horiz TOC with words (not letters): type open-brace symbol ( { ) twice + "horizontal TOC + close brace ( } ) twice
  • No TOC:
  • Compact TOC:
Contents: 

Talk pages

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To sign your name, put four tildes after your name.

Template messages

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  • [Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles] (for top of page)

User boxes

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Remember rotary-dial phone.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.






see [User:Jeff in CA] re "I have visited (states, provinces, etc)

Users, other

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  • [User:Student7#Tools]] (re his toolkits)
  • [User:Tomwsulcer/my sandbox 3]] (re referencing)
  • [User:NYyankees51]] (various userboxes)
  • [User:Maple Leaf]] (navboxes re "Articles I've created")
  • Barnstars rec'd from [User:Maple Leaf]] (2/28/10)

Vandalism

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If vandalism, contact:

  • [User:LonelyBeacon]]
  • [User:Morenooso|Morenooso]], who is "a pretty good a pretty good [Jedi|wikidefender]] and that's probably my specialty."

Miscellaneous

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General

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Sentence spacing

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[Sentence spacing]]

Singular they

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[Singular they]]

Category tree (details), TOC, subcats note

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See: [Category:College men's basketball teams in the United States]] (re: "Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories when appropriate. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should list very few, if any, article pages directly and should mainly contain appropriately categorized subcategories.")

{{CategoryTOC} {Commons cat|United States Navy personnel}} categorytree>United States Navy personnel</categorytree> {Category TOC|numerals=no}}

Useful stuff

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(from another editor's user page)

Toolboxes

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  • toolboxes from [User:Student7]]
  • [User:Ritchie333

Toolbox 1

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Toolbox 2

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