User:Lumos3/Utility

Links to useful pages for editors[edit]

WikEd Help[edit]

What all the buttons in the editor box mean:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd_help

Redirect template messages[edit]

Redirect Page messages

Citation generator[edit]

http://tools.wmflabs.org/makeref/

Inline citations[edit]

& n dash;

Tool makeref[edit]

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/makeref.php

Tools[edit]

Soxreds tools

Warning templates should always be used with the "subst:" keyword, as strongly suggested on Wikipedia:Template substitution. They are shown without subst here to reduce the display space occupied by this table, not to encourage their use without subst. For example, type {{subst:uw-vandalism1}}~~~~ (not {{uw-vandalism1}}) to warn common first-time vandals.

The levels of templates are:

Assumes good faith
No faith assumption
Assumes bad faith; stern cease and desist
Assumes bad faith; strong cease and desist, last warning

Living people[edit]

Wikipedia:BLP

Recent Changes to Living people

Open Directory Project[edit]

Category's name at Curlie

Colour palette[edit]

For colours see Web colors

Calculate age from birth and death dates=[edit]

Calculate duration between two dates

Find IP address location[edit]

http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip Best result on comparison of several sites.
http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp

IP location[edit]

http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/ip-address-locator.php

http://whatismyipaddress.com/

Geograph[edit]

Licensing[edit]

This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Humphrey Bolton and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License.
Attribution: Humphrey Bolton

This template should be used only on the description page of an image temporarily uploaded from Commons.

Welcome and Invitation[edit]

Hello anonymous IP Lumos3 from http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/ xxxxxx. (IP2 http://www.ip2location.com/demo )

I'm Lumos3, one of the many editors here. I see you've made some helpful changes to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I wonder if you have considered opening a user account on the encyclopedia. I'm posting below a standard box which sets out the benefits to you if you join us.

I will be happy to answer any questions you may have on membership, just post them on my Talk page here.

Whatever your decision I hope you continue to get pleasure from editing and making Wikipedia an even better resource for the community.

~~~~ Wikipedia Welcoming Committee.

Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!

You don't have to log in to read or edit articles on Wikipedia, but you may wish to create an account. Doing so is free, requires no personal information, and provides several benefits, including:

The use of a username of your choice, provided that it is appropriate.
The use of your own watchlist, which shows when articles you are interested in have changed.
The ability to use the visual editor to change articles.
The ability to create new pages.
The ability to rename pages.
The ability to edit semi-protected pages.
The ability to upload images.
The ability to customize the appearance and behavior of the website.
Plus your IP address will no longer be visible to other users.

We hope that you choose to become a Wikipedian and create an account.

Feel free to ask me any questions you may have on my talk page. By the way, make sure you automatically sign and date your comments on talk pages with four tildes, thus ~~~~.

Whatever you decide, here are some pages you might find helpful:

Thanks

~~~~ , Wikipedia Welcoming Committee.

Welcome new user[edit]

Hello, XXXX , I see you've opened an account and begun to make edits to the encyclopaedia. You are most welcome and thank you for the many constructive edits you have made .

I'm Lumos3, one of the numerous editors here. I voluntarily work as a welcomer to newcomers.

Wikipedia encourages new members to jump in and make corrections and contributions to articles themselves. I'm posting below a standard welcome box with lots of useful links. I hope you get pleasure from editing and making Wikipedia an even better resource for the community.

I found the Be bold guideline particularly encouraging when I was getting started. I also found the Wikipedia:Cheatsheet a useful quick reference for editing the source text but our new VisualEditor makes editing much easier (This needs to be turned on in your user preferences under beta features).

I myself have come to the conclusion that editing or watching a topic is a great way to learn about it in depth and stay on top of current developments in a field. If you have any questions about the project don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page here :- User_talk:Lumos3.

Happy editing, I hope you continue to develop and improve our encyclopedia.

~~~~ , Wikipedia Welcoming Committee.

Talk pages[edit]

Shared IP[edit]

School[edit]

Welcome!

Interested in becoming a regular contributor to Wikipedia? Create an account!

Your IP address, Lumos3/Utility, is registered to Any school and may be shared by multiple users of an educational institution, so you might receive messages on this page that were not intended for you.

To have your own user pages, keep track of articles you've edited in a watchlist, and have access to a few other special features, please consider registering an account! It's fast and free.

If you are unable to create an account due to your institution's IP address being blocked, follow these instructions. If you are autoblocked repeatedly, contact your network administrator or instructor and request that your school contact Wikimedia's XFF project about enabling X-Forwarded-For HTTP headers on its proxy servers so that blocks will affect only the intended user.

Administrators: review contributions carefully if blocking this IP address or reverting its contributions. If a block is needed, consider a soft block using {{School block}}.

In response to vandalism from this IP address, abuse reports may be sent to its network administrator for investigation.

Educational institution staff and network administrators wishing to monitor this IP address for vandalism can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

Shared[edit]

Welcome!

Interested in becoming a regular contributor to Wikipedia? Create an account!

Your IP address, Lumos3/Utility, is registered to Any place address, anytown. and may be shared by multiple users, so you might receive messages on this page that were not intended for you.

To have your own user pages, keep track of articles you've edited in a watchlist, and have access to a few other special features, please consider registering an account! It's fast and free.

If you are autoblocked repeatedly, contact your Internet service provider or network administrator and request it contact Wikimedia's XFF project about enabling X-Forwarded-For HTTP headers on its proxy servers so that blocks will affect only the intended user. Administrators: review contributions carefully if blocking this IP address or reverting its contributions. If a block is needed, consider a soft block using Template:Anonblock. In response to vandalism from this IP address, abuse reports may be sent to its network administrator for investigation.

Network administrators or other parties wishing to monitor this IP address for vandalism can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

Attention:

This IP address, Lumos3/Utility, is registered to Telewest Broadband IP Network Services. In the event of persistent vandalism from this address, efforts may be made to contact them to report abuse. Contact information may be available in the WHOIS report.

If you are editing from this IP address and are frustrated by irrelevant messages, you can avoid them by creating an account for yourself. Sometimes, in response to vandalism, you may be temporarily unable to create an account.

If you are an unregistered user operating from this address, note that it may be possible for the owner of the IP to determine who was making contributions from this address at any given time.

If you are the owner of this address responding to reports of inappropriate conduct from this address, you may find the contributions history and block log for this address helpful. Please feel free to contact any administrator who has blocked this address with questions (blocking admins will be listed in the block log).

Confusing[edit]

Page Views Graph[edit]

 Page Views graph use   {{PageViews graph | 365 | User:Lumos3| en.wikipedia.org}}

Vandalism
{{uw-vandalism1}}, {{uw-vandalism2}}, {{uw-vandalism3}}, {{uw-vandalism4}}, {{uw-vandalism4im}}
Content removal
{{uw-delete1}}, {{uw-delete2}}, {{uw-delete3}}, {{uw-delete4}}
Testing
{{uw-test1}}, {{uw-test2}}, {{uw-test3}}, {{uw-test4}}
Spam linking
{{uw-spam1}}, {{uw-spam2}}, {{uw-spam3}}, {{uw-spam4}}
Other behavior
Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace