User:Lord Bolingbroke/notes
Style guidelines
[edit]- WP:FREECOPYING – describes how to format attribution notices
- MOS:CATORDER – describes how categories should be ordered
- Help:Citation Style 1#Work and publisher – recommends that upper camel case be used for domain names (e.g., ShipbuildingHistory.com rather than shipbuildinghistory.com)
- MOS:TITLECAPS – recommends that title case be used for all references
- MOS:ALLCAPS – recommends normalizing the capitalization of newspaper headlines in all caps
- MOS:TITLEPUNCT – describes how to format multiple subtitles
- In general, use italics for works and plain text for organizations (see also Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 72#Italics of websites in citations and references – request for comment)
- Help:Line-break handling – describes proper use of
<br />tags etc.
RM closure code
[edit]{{subst:RM top|'''RESULT'''. {{subst:RMnac}} or {{subst:RMpmc}}}}...{{subst:RM bottom}}
Templates
[edit]- {{r}} – provides a compact version of named references
- {{refideas}} – formats potential sources for placement on talk page
- {{nowrap}} – prevents line breaks
- {{Infobox mapframe}} – generates a dynamic map
Meta
[edit]- {{tld}} – displays an example template without a wikilink (e.g.,
{{cite book}}) - {{tlx}} – displays an example template with a wikilink (e.g.,
{{cite book}}) - {{small}} – replaces
<small>...</small>tags - {{tag}} – displays HTML tags
- {{para}} – displays a template parameter (e.g.,
|ps=)
Discussion
[edit]- {{paragraph break}} – introduces a paragraph break within a list item
- {{no ping}} – links to a userpage without triggering a notification
- {{hidden ping}} – pings a user without displaying their username
Misc. thoughts and links
[edit]- m:Help:Interwiki linking – list of prefixes for Wikimedia projects
- mw:Help:Extension:Kartographer – describes how dynamic maps are generated
- Special:PermanentLink — for linking to oldids
- Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 7#Book reviews – contains advice on how to cite book reviews using CS1 templates
- Wikipedia talk:Page mover/Archive 3#Proposal to modify guideline #3 – discussion of draftifying as a back door means of deletion
- MOS:DABSEEALSO – mentions the use of {{look from}} and {{in title}}
- Some people are opposed to integrating OpenStreetMap into Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#OpenStreetMap advertising?). I see a parallel with the opposition to using Wikidata to generate short descriptions; editors on en.wiki want to be able to control everything on en.wiki.
- Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 November 2#Mountain Meadows massacre/Archive 1 – follow-up RfD needed?
- User:Legacypac/Cleanup Guide
- User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers