User:Werldwayd/Useful Wikipedia Pages
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- This is a User page for User:Werldwayd to help him in creating and editing of articles in Wikipedia.
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Useful links for Wikipedia editing
[edit]- List of wikis
- Template:Essays on building Wikipedia
- Template:Help navigation
- Wikipedia:Alternative outlets
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
- Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion
- Wikipedia:Why was the page I created deleted?
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources
- Template:Quicktemplates
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Some useful material for Wikipedia editing (collected here partly so that I can remind myself where to find these):
- WP:SIGNPOST (Wikipedia news)
- WP:TWL and WP:TWL/Newsletter (the Wikipedia Library)
- A cool tool for finding articles created by a particular user (use '+' for spaces, as in this).
- A way to figure out whether someone is an administrator.
- WP:5000
- Help:Diff
- Help:Pipe trick (formatting tricks using the pipe character)
- Help:Special page
- English grammar
- List of cognitive biases
- List of fallacies
- WP:ABOUT general introduction to Wikipedia)
- WP:AT article titles; within it: WP:COMMONNAME, WP:TITLEFORMAT, WP:CRITERIA, WP:SMALLDETAILS
- WP:NC (naming conventions for article titles)
- WP:ENGLISH (naming conventions for using English in article titles; within it: WP:DIACRITICS)
- WP:DAB (disambiguation; within it: WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, WP:2DAB, WP:TWODABS)
- WP:HAT (hatnotes)
- WP:OFFICIALNAMES (naming conventions for official names)
- WP:NCCORP (naming conventions for companies)
- WP:NCE (naming conventions for events)
- WP:NCP (naming conventions for people; within it: WP:STAGENAME and WP:INITS / WP:MIDDLES "Adding middle names, or their abbreviations, merely for disambiguation purposes (if that format of the name is not commonly used to refer to the person) is not advised.")
- WP:NCROY (naming conventions for royalty and nobility)
- WP:THE (naming conventions regarding definite and indefinite articles: the, a, an)
- WP:ATA (arguments to avoid; within it: WP:ILIKEIT and WP:ITSCRUFT)
- WP:BEANS (don't stuff beans up your nose)
- WP:BETTER (writing better articles; within it: WP:OFFTOPIC and WP:TONE)
- WP:BLUDGEON (restrain yourself from constant comment)
- WP:BOLD
- WP:BRD
- WP:BURDEN
- WP:CON (consensus; within it: WP:CCC, consensus can change)
- WP:ANI (administrators' noticeboard for incidents, with links to related pages)
- WP:CANVAS (conduct and misconduct in discussions, with links to relevant other articles and templates)
- WP:INDENT (indentation for Talk page discussions; with {{outdent}} and {{outdent2}})
- WP:AFD (articles for deletion, how to nominate, etiquette, and related templates)
- WP:ATA (arguments to avoid in deletion discussions; within it: WP:OTHERSTUFF)
- WP:SPEEDY (criteria for speedy deletions and related templates)
- WP:PROD (proposed deletion, how to do it, how to discuss it, and related templates)
- WP:DEADHORSE (time to stop; within it, links to related essays)
- WP:HARASS (harassment; within it: WP:OUTING / WP:PRIVACY)
- WP:RFC (requests for comment)
- WP:CHEAP (redirects are cheap)
- WP:CUTPASTE (how to fix cut-and-paste moves)
- WP:DAB (within it, WP:PDAB is particularly interesting; WP:PTM on partial title matches is also interesting)
- WP:DISCLAIM (no disclaimers in articles, and exceptions)
- WP:DRR (dispute resolution requests)
- WP:ES (edit summary)
- WP:FIXDABLINKS (with pointer to python tool for link updating)
- WP:GENDER
- WP:IGNORE (ignore all rules)
- WP:LEAD (format and content of the lead section)
- WP:LINKSTYLE (when and how to use Wikilinking)
- WP:LISTGAP (don't put blank lines in lists)
- WP:MARKUP (Wiki markup)
- WP:MATHSYMBOL (mathematical symbols)
- WP:MOS (Manual of Style; within it, regarding quotes: MOS:LQ, MOS:QUOTEMARKS, MOS:QUOTE, other: MOS:&, MOS:ENGVAR, MOS:HEAD, MOS:NOTUSA, MOS:REFPUNC, MOS:RETAIN)
- MOS:ABBR (within it: MOS:SPACEINITS)
- MOS:BIO (within it: MOS:BIRTHPLACE, MOS:BLPLEAD, MOS:CREDENTIAL, MOS:FULLNAME, MOS:HONORIFIC, MOS:JR, MOS:SURNAME)
- MOS:CAPS (naming conventions for capitalization; within it: MOS:CT)
- MOS:ITALPUNCT (don't include the following punctuation within the italics)
- MOS:LAYOUT
- MOS:NUM / WP:DATE
- MOS:SPELLING (within it: MOS:IZE)
- MOS:TEXT (within it: MOS:BADEMPHASIS, MOS:BOLD)
- MOS:TM
- WP:NBOOK (noteworthiness of books)
- WP:NOT (within in: WP:CRYSTAL, WP:NOTADVOCATE / WP:SOAP, WP:NOTHOWTO)
- WP:NOTABILITY
- WP:POINTy
- WP:PROTECT (protection policy)
- WP:REDIR (redirects; within it: WP:BLAR)
- WP:REDLINK (usage and abusage of redlinks)
- WP:RESEARCH (researching with Wikipedia)
- WP:RS (identifying reliable sources)
- WP:OR (within it: WP:PRIMARY)
- WP:VERIFY (verifiability)
- WP:RSN (reliable sources noticeboard)
- WP:SET (search engine tests)
- WP:SPOILER (Wikipedia includes spoilers and does not provide warnings about that)
- WP:TITLE (including WP:TITLETM)
- WP:USER (user page guidelines)
- WP:Template messages/Cleanup (template messages for article cleanup)
- WP:Template messages/Redirect pages (template messages for redirect)
- Template:R template index
- WP:WES (Wikipedia essays)
- WP:WORDS (words to watch; within it: WP:PEACOCK, WP:LABEL, WP:WEASEL, WP:ALLEGED, WP:EDITORIAL, WP:SAY, WP:EUPHEMISM, WP:IDIOM, WP:RELTIME)
- WP:WTAF (write the article first)
- Special:Preferences (includes your number of edits!)
- Special:RANDOM (takes you to a random article)
{{tlx|arg1|arg2|...}}or, perhaps better, {{tlg|arg1|arg2|...}}- {{tq|Text to quote for discussion}} (results in
Text to quote for discussion
, similar to {{xt|Example text}}, producing Example text – perhaps a bit too similar, as another user once pointed out to me) - {{about}}
- {{better source}}
- {{circular}} (for articles that reference Wikipedia as a source)
- {{citation needed|March 2025}} (documentation includes related templates)
- {{cite quote|March 2025}}
- {{diff|PageName|Oldnumber|Newnumber|text to display}}
- {{done|Custom message}} (documentation includes related templates)
- {{fringe theories|date=March 2025}}
- {{inflation|country_code|value|start_year}} (more generally, {{inflation|country_code|value|start_year|end_year}} or {{inflation|country_code|value|start_year|r=decimals|fmt=eq|cursign=X}})
- {{article issues}} (has "fringe", while {{multiple issues}} does not)
- {{disputed-inline}} or {{disputed-inline|Talk page section|date=March 2025}}
- (subst) {{Please see | Talk:United States#Name | more=When was the country really settled? }}
- {{nowrap|these words stay together}}
- {{R from incorrect name}}
- (subst) {{Shared IP advice}}
- (subst) {{spa}}
- (subst) {{uw-defamatory1|article name|additional comments}}, {{uw-disruptive1|article name|additional comments}}, {{uw-editsummary|article name}}, {{uw-harrass1|article name|additional comments}}, {{uw-italicize|article name|additional comments}}, {{uw-lang|Article|Additional text}}, {{uw-test3|article name|additional text}} (for toggles), {{uw-unsourced1|article name|additional comments}}, {{uw-vandalism1|article name|additional comments}}, {{uw-tilde|article name|additional comments}}, {{uw-selfrevert|Article|Additional text}}, etc. (see Category:Standardised user warning templates)
- {{ubl}}
- (subst) {{unsigned2|time, day month year (UTC)|user name or IP}}
- {{varserif}} and related
- {{no redirect|article name}}
- {{'}}, {{' "}}, {{" '}}
- {{BLP IMDB refimprove|date=March 2025}}, {{Film IMDb refimprove|date=March 2025}}
- {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Article titles, headings, and sections}}
- ISO 3166-1 country codes
- ISO 8601 dates
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