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Citation

Quotation Styles

Style 1

Style 2

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.


Style 3

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

Style 4

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

— Honette, Title, Publication

Style 5

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

More Styles

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Icons

Code Result Code Result
{{doing}}  Doing... {{TakeNote}} information Note:
{{done}}  Done {{Duck}}   Looks like a duck to me
{{Checking}}  Checking... {{2O|1=Text. ~~~~}}
2nd opinion requested
 – Text.  Honette  ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Discussing}}   Discussion ongoing...
{{Already done}}  Already done
{{Added}} plus Added {{Resolved|1=Text. ~~~~}}
Resolved
 – Text.  Honette  ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{WikiThanks}} Thank you {{MoreInfo}}  Additional information needed
{{Fixed}}  Fixed {{Inprogress}}  In progress
{{Not done-t}}  Not done {{Redflag}} flag Redflag
{{Done-t}}  Done {{Removed}} minus Removed
{{Not sure}} Not sure {{Resolved mark}}  Resolved
{{Thank you}} Thank you {{Reverted}} arrow Reverted
{{not done}}  Not done {{Thank}}  Thanks
{{Not done and will not be done}} ☒N Not done and not likely to be done {{Thataway|WP:DRV|2=~~~~}}
Wrong venue. Please move to WP:DRV
 –  Honette  ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Isdoing}}  [[User:|]] is doing... {{Twomanrule}} lens Review
{{Tobedone}}  Pending {{Undone}} eraser Undone
{{Unlikely}}  Unlikely {{Unnecessary}} no Unnecessary
{{Unrelated}} Red X Unrelated {{subst:Verified}} Verified
{{WPcrystalball}}  Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. {{WQA in progress|1=Text. ~~~~}}
Work in progress; comments welcome
 – Text.  Honette  ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Works for me}}  Works for me {{Working}}  Working
{{Agree}} Agree {{Accepted}} Accepted
{{keypress|Text goes here}}+{{keypress|F2}} Text goes here+F2
Check marks Cross marks
{{ tick}} = {{ tick|20}}
{{ tick|colour=purple}}
{{ tick|color=cyan}}
{{ check mark}}
checkY
checkY
checkY
checkY
{{ cross}} = {{ cross|20}}
{{ Cross|colour=orange}}
{{ Cross|color=black}}
☒N
☒N
☒N
{{ aye}} and {{ Y}} Green tickY {{ nay}} and {{ N}} Red XN
{{ ya}} Yes {{ na}} No
{{ yan}} Yes {{ nan}} No
{{ check mark-n}} YesY {{ x mark-n}} NoN
{{ y&}} {{ n&}}
{{ Chk}}    
{{ yeac}} Green checkmarkY {{ nayc}} Red X symbolN
{{ yeag}} Gray check markYg {{ nayg}} Gray X symbolNg
{{ Mby}} Orange tickY {{ nayd}} Dark red X symbolN2
{{ checked box}}
{{ ticked box}}
checked box {{ unchecked box}}
{{ unticked box}}
unchecked box
{{ xed box}} X'ed box {{ unexed box}} unchecked box
{{ question mark box}} ?
Other marks
{{ n.b.}} Nota bene* {{ hmmm}} Question?
{{ bang}} exclamation mark  {{ idkc}} Blue question mark?
{{ equc}} Gray equals sign= {{ cloc}} Magenta clockclock
Most of the templates above are fully sortable in a class="sortable" table (each check mark is assigned an undisplayed "Y" and each cross mark an undisplayed "N").

Code Result
{{Thankyou}} Thank you
{{Thank You IP}} A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia!
Please consider creating an account for yourself!

Edit Semi-Protected

Code Result
:{{ESp|d}} ~~~~ Done
:{{ESp|pd}} ~~~~ Partly done:
:{{ESp|n}} ~~~~ Not done:
:{{ESp|nfn}} ~~~~ Not done for now:
:{{ESp|rs}} ~~~~ Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.
:{{ESp|a}} ~~~~ Already done
:{{ESp|?}} ~~~~ Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed.
:{{ESp|q}} ~~~~ Question:
:{{ESp|note}} ~~~~ Note:

Source

Inline messages

Code Result Code Result
{{ By whom}} [ by whom?] {{ Examples}} [ example needed]
{{ Citequote}} [ This quote needs a citation] {{ Full}} [ full citation needed]
{{ Citation broken}} [ full citation needed] {{ Failed verification}} [ failed verification]
{{ Citation needed}} [ citation needed] {{ Or}} [ original research?]
{{ Citation needed (lead)}} [ not verified in body] {{ Season needed}} [ season and episode needed]
{{ Clarify}} [ clarification needed] {{ Specify}} [ specify]
{{ Copyvio link}} [ infringing link?] {{ Self-published inline}} [ self-published source?]
{{ Dead link}} [ dead link] {{ Vague}} [ vague]
{{ Dubious}} [ dubious ] {{ Verify credibility}} [ unreliable source?]
{{ Elucidate}} [ further explanation needed] {{ Verify source}} [ verification needed]
{{ Volume needed}} [ volume & issue needed] {{ When}} [ when?]
{{ Where}} [ where?] {{ Which}} [ which?]
{{ Who}} [ who?] {{ Whom?}} [ according to whom?]
{{ Why}} [ why?] {{ Year needed}} [ year needed]
{{ User:Honette/Template/Full_name}} [ full version needed] {{ expand acronym}} [ expand acronym]

Smilies

Different smilies can be made using parameters. for instance, {{=)|sad}} produces . The full list of parameters is as follows. Default (no parameter) is a simple smile.

parameter produces parameter produces
1, smile 2, sad, frown
3, wink 4, blush
5, grin 6, surprise
7, tongue 8, confused
9, shade, shades 10, cry, crying, tears
11, lightbulb, idea 12, wink2
13, wink3 14, big-grin, biggrin
15, devil-grin, devil, evil 16, kiss
17, smirk 18, big-cry, bigcry, sob
19, glasses, nerd 20, angel
21, ttth 22, awesome
23, vsmile

Source: Template: =)

Discussions

Code Result
{{ outdent}}
{{ Outdent2}} ( )
{{Outdent|6}}
{{ tps}} ( talk page stalker)
{{ ec}} ( edit conflict)
{{ hat}} and {{ hab}} Closing a discussion.
{{collapse top|Text goes here}} and {{ collapse bottom}} Putting text in collapsible box.

Presenting templates

Code Result
{{tl|template}} {{ template}} (linked, normal text style)
{{tlx|template}} {{ template}} (linked, teletype text style)
{{tld|template}} {{template}} (not linked, teletype text style)
{{tlf|template}} {{template}} (not linked, normal text style)

Copy-editing and editing

Link Description
Oxford Dictionaries A list of British and American terms
Oxford Dictionaries A "trusted" dictionary. Can select either World English or American English.
Code Result
{{American English}}
{{Australian English}}
{{British English}}
{{Canadian English}}
{{New Zealand English}}
{{South African English}}
{{British English Oxford spelling}}
{{Indian English}}
{{Pakistani English}}
{{Scottish English}}
{{copyedit}}
{{Inappropriate tone|section}}
{{Inappropriate tone|article}}
{{Copyedit-section |for = Enter reason|date = 2010}}
{{Inuse}}
{{Inuse|section}}
{{Inuse|5 minutes}}
{{Inuse|30 minutes to fix the information in the History section|time=~~~~~}}
{{Under construction}} See here.
{{Increation|time=~~~~~|duration=2 hours}}
{{Under discussion|talk=Section Title}}
{{GOCEinuse}}

Edit summary legend/Quick reference

This is a concise quick-reference of the most commonly used edit summary abbreviations. For a detailed explanation of these legends, see: Wikipedia's Edit summary legend.
Term Abbreviated Description
add +, add, addition Addition of something
alphabetization alpha, abc Alphabetization of a list
capitalization cap, capital, cpt, lc, lcase, uc, ucase Fixing of capitalization
category +cat, -cat, cat, recat, re-cat Addition, subtraction or fixing of a category
cleanup cl, clean, tidy Many different kinds of small changes in a single edit.
comment cm, cmt, re Addition of comment or reply
copyedit cpyed, ced, c/e, ce Copy edit
creation creation, new Creation of a new article
disambiguation disambig, disamb, disam, dab, byp disambig Addition of disambiguation or removal of ambiguity
duplication dup, dupe Removal of duplication
external link EL, xl, ext lk, ext lks, ext lnk, ext lnks, ext link, ext links, URL, http Addition of external links
formatting fm, fmt, frmt, MoS, mos, MOS Formatting, per Manual of Style
short new text (full text) ft Addition of short new text, which is fully given in this edit summary
grammar gr, gm, grmr Fixing grammar
headers head, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 Fixing header markup or changing header wording
interwiki iwk, iw Addition of interwiki links (between Wikimedia projects)
links lk, lks, lnk, ln, wikilink, wl Addition of internal (Wikipedia) links
merge mrg, mrgd, merged in Article merge
miscellaneous misc Use only when a more specific and more useful edit summary is not practical.
move mv, mov Article move
null edit null, nx, ø Saving the page without changing anything, see Null edit.
punctuation punc, punct, pct Fixing punctuation
redirect rd, rdr, redir Article redirect. Specify what article it redirects to.
redirect fix snap dbl rdr, fix redir "Snapping" a double redirect: turning a double redirect into a single redirect.
references ref, refs Adding or fixing source citation.
remove/delete -, rm, rmv, del Removal of something
revert rv, rvt, rvrt Revert to a previous edit
talk see talk Explanation of edit on the article's Talk page
spelling sp, typo, typos Fixing of typos or incorrect spelling.
wikify wfy, wky, wkfy Formatting using wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia


Talk page stalkers

Images
More talk page stalkers are coming this way!
A different type of talk page stalker.


User page: This is a Wikipedia user page, not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Honette/Cheatsheet.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
User page: This is a Wikipedia user page, not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Honette/Cheatsheet.

Citation

Quotation Styles

Style 1

Style 2

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.


Style 3

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

Style 4

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

— Honette, Title, Publication

Style 5

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

More Styles

Visit Category:Quotation templates.

Icons

Code Result Code Result
{{doing}}  Doing... {{TakeNote}} information Note:
{{done}}  Done {{Duck}}   Looks like a duck to me
{{Checking}}  Checking... {{2O|1=Text. ~~~~}}
2nd opinion requested
 – Text.  Honette  ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Discussing}}   Discussion ongoing...
{{Already done}}  Already done
{{Added}} plus Added {{Resolved|1=Text. ~~~~}}
Resolved
 – Text.  Honette  ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{WikiThanks}} Thank you {{MoreInfo}}  Additional information needed
{{Fixed}}  Fixed {{Inprogress}}  In progress
{{Not done-t}}  Not done {{Redflag}} flag Redflag
{{Done-t}}  Done {{Removed}} minus Removed
{{Not sure}} Not sure {{Resolved mark}}  Resolved
{{Thank you}} Thank you {{Reverted}} arrow Reverted
{{not done}}  Not done {{Thank}}  Thanks
{{Not done and will not be done}} ☒N Not done and not likely to be done {{Thataway|WP:DRV|2=~~~~}}
Wrong venue. Please move to WP:DRV
 –  Honette  ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Isdoing}}  [[User:|]] is doing... {{Twomanrule}} lens Review
{{Tobedone}}  Pending {{Undone}} eraser Undone
{{Unlikely}}  Unlikely {{Unnecessary}} no Unnecessary
{{Unrelated}} Red X Unrelated {{subst:Verified}} Verified
{{WPcrystalball}}  Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. {{WQA in progress|1=Text. ~~~~}}
Work in progress; comments welcome
 – Text.  Honette  ( talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Works for me}}  Works for me {{Working}}  Working
{{Agree}} Agree {{Accepted}} Accepted
{{keypress|Text goes here}}+{{keypress|F2}} Text goes here+F2
Check marks Cross marks
{{ tick}} = {{ tick|20}}
{{ tick|colour=purple}}
{{ tick|color=cyan}}
{{ check mark}}
checkY
checkY
checkY
checkY
{{ cross}} = {{ cross|20}}
{{ Cross|colour=orange}}
{{ Cross|color=black}}
☒N
☒N
☒N
{{ aye}} and {{ Y}} Green tickY {{ nay}} and {{ N}} Red XN
{{ ya}} Yes {{ na}} No
{{ yan}} Yes {{ nan}} No
{{ check mark-n}} YesY {{ x mark-n}} NoN
{{ y&}} {{ n&}}
{{ Chk}}    
{{ yeac}} Green checkmarkY {{ nayc}} Red X symbolN
{{ yeag}} Gray check markYg {{ nayg}} Gray X symbolNg
{{ Mby}} Orange tickY {{ nayd}} Dark red X symbolN2
{{ checked box}}
{{ ticked box}}
checked box {{ unchecked box}}
{{ unticked box}}
unchecked box
{{ xed box}} X'ed box {{ unexed box}} unchecked box
{{ question mark box}} ?
Other marks
{{ n.b.}} Nota bene* {{ hmmm}} Question?
{{ bang}} exclamation mark  {{ idkc}} Blue question mark?
{{ equc}} Gray equals sign= {{ cloc}} Magenta clockclock
Most of the templates above are fully sortable in a class="sortable" table (each check mark is assigned an undisplayed "Y" and each cross mark an undisplayed "N").

Code Result
{{Thankyou}} Thank you
{{Thank You IP}} A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia!
Please consider creating an account for yourself!

Edit Semi-Protected

Code Result
:{{ESp|d}} ~~~~ Done
:{{ESp|pd}} ~~~~ Partly done:
:{{ESp|n}} ~~~~ Not done:
:{{ESp|nfn}} ~~~~ Not done for now:
:{{ESp|rs}} ~~~~ Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.
:{{ESp|a}} ~~~~ Already done
:{{ESp|?}} ~~~~ Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed.
:{{ESp|q}} ~~~~ Question:
:{{ESp|note}} ~~~~ Note:

Source

Inline messages

Code Result Code Result
{{ By whom}} [ by whom?] {{ Examples}} [ example needed]
{{ Citequote}} [ This quote needs a citation] {{ Full}} [ full citation needed]
{{ Citation broken}} [ full citation needed] {{ Failed verification}} [ failed verification]
{{ Citation needed}} [ citation needed] {{ Or}} [ original research?]
{{ Citation needed (lead)}} [ not verified in body] {{ Season needed}} [ season and episode needed]
{{ Clarify}} [ clarification needed] {{ Specify}} [ specify]
{{ Copyvio link}} [ infringing link?] {{ Self-published inline}} [ self-published source?]
{{ Dead link}} [ dead link] {{ Vague}} [ vague]
{{ Dubious}} [ dubious ] {{ Verify credibility}} [ unreliable source?]
{{ Elucidate}} [ further explanation needed] {{ Verify source}} [ verification needed]
{{ Volume needed}} [ volume & issue needed] {{ When}} [ when?]
{{ Where}} [ where?] {{ Which}} [ which?]
{{ Who}} [ who?] {{ Whom?}} [ according to whom?]
{{ Why}} [ why?] {{ Year needed}} [ year needed]
{{ User:Honette/Template/Full_name}} [ full version needed] {{ expand acronym}} [ expand acronym]

Smilies

Different smilies can be made using parameters. for instance, {{=)|sad}} produces . The full list of parameters is as follows. Default (no parameter) is a simple smile.

parameter produces parameter produces
1, smile 2, sad, frown
3, wink 4, blush
5, grin 6, surprise
7, tongue 8, confused
9, shade, shades 10, cry, crying, tears
11, lightbulb, idea 12, wink2
13, wink3 14, big-grin, biggrin
15, devil-grin, devil, evil 16, kiss
17, smirk 18, big-cry, bigcry, sob
19, glasses, nerd 20, angel
21, ttth 22, awesome
23, vsmile

Source: Template: =)

Discussions

Code Result
{{ outdent}}
{{ Outdent2}} ( )
{{Outdent|6}}
{{ tps}} ( talk page stalker)
{{ ec}} ( edit conflict)
{{ hat}} and {{ hab}} Closing a discussion.
{{collapse top|Text goes here}} and {{ collapse bottom}} Putting text in collapsible box.

Presenting templates

Code Result
{{tl|template}} {{ template}} (linked, normal text style)
{{tlx|template}} {{ template}} (linked, teletype text style)
{{tld|template}} {{template}} (not linked, teletype text style)
{{tlf|template}} {{template}} (not linked, normal text style)

Copy-editing and editing

Link Description
Oxford Dictionaries A list of British and American terms
Oxford Dictionaries A "trusted" dictionary. Can select either World English or American English.
Code Result
{{American English}}
{{Australian English}}
{{British English}}
{{Canadian English}}
{{New Zealand English}}
{{South African English}}
{{British English Oxford spelling}}
{{Indian English}}
{{Pakistani English}}
{{Scottish English}}
{{copyedit}}
{{Inappropriate tone|section}}
{{Inappropriate tone|article}}
{{Copyedit-section |for = Enter reason|date = 2010}}
{{Inuse}}
{{Inuse|section}}
{{Inuse|5 minutes}}
{{Inuse|30 minutes to fix the information in the History section|time=~~~~~}}
{{Under construction}} See here.
{{Increation|time=~~~~~|duration=2 hours}}
{{Under discussion|talk=Section Title}}
{{GOCEinuse}}

Edit summary legend/Quick reference

This is a concise quick-reference of the most commonly used edit summary abbreviations. For a detailed explanation of these legends, see: Wikipedia's Edit summary legend.
Term Abbreviated Description
add +, add, addition Addition of something
alphabetization alpha, abc Alphabetization of a list
capitalization cap, capital, cpt, lc, lcase, uc, ucase Fixing of capitalization
category +cat, -cat, cat, recat, re-cat Addition, subtraction or fixing of a category
cleanup cl, clean, tidy Many different kinds of small changes in a single edit.
comment cm, cmt, re Addition of comment or reply
copyedit cpyed, ced, c/e, ce Copy edit
creation creation, new Creation of a new article
disambiguation disambig, disamb, disam, dab, byp disambig Addition of disambiguation or removal of ambiguity
duplication dup, dupe Removal of duplication
external link EL, xl, ext lk, ext lks, ext lnk, ext lnks, ext link, ext links, URL, http Addition of external links
formatting fm, fmt, frmt, MoS, mos, MOS Formatting, per Manual of Style
short new text (full text) ft Addition of short new text, which is fully given in this edit summary
grammar gr, gm, grmr Fixing grammar
headers head, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 Fixing header markup or changing header wording
interwiki iwk, iw Addition of interwiki links (between Wikimedia projects)
links lk, lks, lnk, ln, wikilink, wl Addition of internal (Wikipedia) links
merge mrg, mrgd, merged in Article merge
miscellaneous misc Use only when a more specific and more useful edit summary is not practical.
move mv, mov Article move
null edit null, nx, ø Saving the page without changing anything, see Null edit.
punctuation punc, punct, pct Fixing punctuation
redirect rd, rdr, redir Article redirect. Specify what article it redirects to.
redirect fix snap dbl rdr, fix redir "Snapping" a double redirect: turning a double redirect into a single redirect.
references ref, refs Adding or fixing source citation.
remove/delete -, rm, rmv, del Removal of something
revert rv, rvt, rvrt Revert to a previous edit
talk see talk Explanation of edit on the article's Talk page
spelling sp, typo, typos Fixing of typos or incorrect spelling.
wikify wfy, wky, wkfy Formatting using wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia


Talk page stalkers

Images
More talk page stalkers are coming this way!
A different type of talk page stalker.


User page: This is a Wikipedia user page, not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Honette/Cheatsheet.

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