User:Goodtiming8871/Cheatsheet

This section below could be automatically updated as per the user:Mortee's efforts on Wikipedia.

The guide for Disambiguation pages:
MOS:DAB

Guide for the new article : [[1]]

Additional guide

Because rollback only takes a single click, without asking for confirmation, even experienced users may sometimes accidentally click rollback when attempting to click somewhere else. If this occurs, simply revert your edit manually, with an edit summary like "Self-revert accidental use of rollback"

Referencing

{{Reflist|refs=
* <ref name="refname1">content1</ref>
* <ref name="refname2">content2</ref>
}}

{{r|reference name}} → <ref name="reference name" />
{{sfn}} – for referencing different pages within one work through an article
|ref=harv – within a {{cite book}} or similar, to make {{sfn}} work
{{rp|188}} → ^: 188 – for in-line page numbers next to references
{{cite encyclopedia}} – for citing papers/chapters within an edited collection
{{
literatur
}} for German. There are a few others.
{{
lien web
}} for French web references. There are a few others.
{{reflist-talk}} – for reference sections within a talk page
{{refbegin|indent=y}} and {{refend}} – format lists of works below references

Links

{{
u|Mortee}} → Mortee
- or {{
  noping
  }} to link without notifying

{{
re|Mortee}} → @Mortee
:

{{diff2|764891063}} → [2]
{{diff2|764891063|diff link}} → diff link
[[Special:Diff/859431508|link]] → link (for links that work in edit summaries. See Help:Special page)
{{oldid|Main Page|589841|old revision}} → old revision
{{oldid2|589841|old revision}} → old revision
{{subst:URL to diff}} → diff link
[[:fr:pamplemousse|grapefruit (pamplemousse)]] → grapefruit (pamplemousse)
{{ill|grapefruit|fr|pamplemousse|display=1}} → grapefruit [fr] (display=1 required if english article exists, which it does)
{{ill|grapefruit|lt=The best fruit|fr|pamplemousse|display=1}} → The best fruit [fr] - changes the text
{{section link|Albert Einstein|Scientific career}} → Albert Einstein § Scientific career

Random markup

{{tildes}} → ~~~~
{{od |::::::::}} →
{{od |8}} →
{{tq |quoted text}} → quoted text
{{redacted}} → (Redacted)
{{redacted|identifying information}} → (Redacted) (this changes the hover-over text)
{{para|attribute}} → |attribute=
{{para|attribute|value}} → |attribute=value
{{hlist|one|two|three}} →
- one
- two
- three
{{
pb
}} – to put a visual paragraph break in a list or similar without confusing screen readers
{{
ec}} → (edit conflict
)

{{
tps}} → (talk page stalker
)

{{
tps|g}} → (talk page gnome
)

{{Non-admin comment}} → (Non-administrator comment)
{{lag|article}} → Article (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs|google)
{{=}} → = (as an escape character)
{{!}} → | (as an escape character)
{{not a typo}}
{{sic}} → [sic]
{{
lit}} → lit. = {{literal translation
}}

Columns: {{div col}} and {{div col end}} for easy columns; {{col-begin}}, {{col-break}} and {{col-end}} for manual control
{{unsigned}} but always subst: {{subst:unsigned|Mortee|12:00, 31 December 2049 (UTC)}} → — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mortee (talk • contribs) 12:00, 31 December 2049 (UTC)
{{convert|3|ft|m}} → 3 feet (0.91 m)
- |abbr=on → 3 ft (0.91 m)
- |adj=on → 3-foot (0.91 m)
- {{convert|3|ft|2+3/8|in|m}} → 3 feet 2+3⁄8 inches (0.975 m)
{{frac |2|3}} → 2⁄3
{{frac |1|2|3}} → 1+2⁄3
{{sfrac|2|3}} → 2/3
{{sfrac|1|2|3}} → 1+2/3

For lists in infoboxes etc, without visible bullet points:

{{Plainlist|
* Item
* Item
}}

To collapse WikiProject templates together:

{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1=
  {{WikiProject History|class=|importance=}}
  {{WikiProject Scotland|class=|importance=}}
}}

Image gallery (see also alt text guidelines):

<center>
  <gallery mode=packed>
    File:some image.jpg|description|alt=description for the blind
    File:another image.jpg|description|alt=description for the blind
  </gallery>
</center>

{{moved discussion from}} and {{moved discussion to}} →
Moved from there

Moved to here
{{markup}} for comparing complex source with output. Gets fiddly because you need to replace some common markup with other templates.
{{collapse top|title=Collapsed section}} ... {{collapse bottom}} →