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This page is for my personal use, to give me quick links to pages I might want to get to quickly, notes about how to format, information about templates, etc.

Searching for likely vandalism

Possible vandals can be found by looking at the contribs of editors reverted by anti-vandalism bots:

Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled " Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

{{ summary}}

Using templates with subst

{{subst:test-n|Terri Schiavo}}
{{subst:test2a-n|Terri Schiavo}}
{{subst:test5-n|24 hours|}}
{{subst:test2b|Terri Schiavo}}

Useful links

Template:TestTemplates
Wikipedia:Template substitution

Getting rid of arrow for links to external sites

Add <div class="plainlinks"> to the beginning of the paragraph. This works in userboxes as well. See, for example the difference between:

HV

and

HV This user agrees with Humanae Vitae and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis.




Other

To sign for another user, add something like: {{unsigned|Tropix|10:51, September 03, 2005}}. This will expand into — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tropix ( talkcontribs) 10:51, September 03, 2005


To link to a category without adding that page to the category, put a colon in front of it, e.g. [[:Category:Requests for unblock]]

To link to meta, wiktionary, or a wikipedia article in another language:

[[m:Range blocks|Range blocks]] becomes Range blocks
[[wiktionary:auxiliary verb|auxiliary verb]] becomes auxiliary verb
[[:fr:Benoit XVI|Benoit XVI]] becomes : Benoit XVI

Within a template, if piped links don't work, use {{!}}

{{user artist-3|Bucks Fizz (band){{!}}Bucks Fizz}}

instead of

{{User artist-3|Bucks Fizz (band)|Bucks Fizz}}

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page is for my personal use, to give me quick links to pages I might want to get to quickly, notes about how to format, information about templates, etc.

Searching for likely vandalism

Possible vandals can be found by looking at the contribs of editors reverted by anti-vandalism bots:

Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled " Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

{{ summary}}

Using templates with subst

{{subst:test-n|Terri Schiavo}}
{{subst:test2a-n|Terri Schiavo}}
{{subst:test5-n|24 hours|}}
{{subst:test2b|Terri Schiavo}}

Useful links

Template:TestTemplates
Wikipedia:Template substitution

Getting rid of arrow for links to external sites

Add <div class="plainlinks"> to the beginning of the paragraph. This works in userboxes as well. See, for example the difference between:

HV

and

HV This user agrees with Humanae Vitae and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis.




Other

To sign for another user, add something like: {{unsigned|Tropix|10:51, September 03, 2005}}. This will expand into — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tropix ( talkcontribs) 10:51, September 03, 2005


To link to a category without adding that page to the category, put a colon in front of it, e.g. [[:Category:Requests for unblock]]

To link to meta, wiktionary, or a wikipedia article in another language:

[[m:Range blocks|Range blocks]] becomes Range blocks
[[wiktionary:auxiliary verb|auxiliary verb]] becomes auxiliary verb
[[:fr:Benoit XVI|Benoit XVI]] becomes : Benoit XVI

Within a template, if piped links don't work, use {{!}}

{{user artist-3|Bucks Fizz (band){{!}}Bucks Fizz}}

instead of

{{User artist-3|Bucks Fizz (band)|Bucks Fizz}}


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