User:Lord Bolingbroke/notes

Style guidelines

• WP:FREECOPYING
  – describes how to format attribution notices
• MOS:CATORDER
  – describes how categories should be ordered
• upper camel case
  be used for domain names (e.g., ShipbuildingHistory.com rather than shipbuildinghistory.com)
• MOS:TITLECAPS
  – recommends that title case be used for all references
• MOS:ALLCAPS
  – recommends normalizing the capitalization of newspaper headlines in all caps
• MOS:TITLEPUNCT
  – describes how to format multiple subtitles
• In general, use italics for works and plain text for organizations (see also Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 72#Italics of websites in citations and references – request for comment)
• Help:Line-break handling – describes proper use of <br /> tags etc.

RM closure code

• {{subst:RM top|'''RESULT'''. {{subst:RMnac}} or {{subst:RMpmc}}}}
  ...
  {{subst:RM bottom}}

Templates

• {{r}} – provides a compact version of named references
• {{refideas}} – formats potential sources for placement on talk page
• {{nowrap}} – prevents line breaks
• {{Infobox mapframe}} – generates a dynamic map

Meta

• {{
  tld
  }} – displays an example template without a wikilink (e.g., {{cite book}})
• {{
  tlx}} – displays an example template with a wikilink (e.g., {{cite book
  }})
• {{small}} – replaces <small>...</small> tags
• {{tag}} – displays HTML tags
• {{para}} – displays a template parameter (e.g., |ps=)

Discussion

• {{paragraph break}} – introduces a paragraph break within a list item
• {{no ping}} – links to a userpage without triggering a notification
• {{hidden ping}} – pings a user without displaying their username

Misc. thoughts and links

• m:Help:Interwiki linking – list of prefixes for Wikimedia projects
• mw:Help:Extension:Kartographer – describes how dynamic maps are generated
• Special:PermanentLink — for linking to oldids
• Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 7#Book reviews – contains advice on how to cite book reviews using CS1 templates
• Wikipedia talk:Page mover/Archive 3#Proposal to modify guideline #3 – discussion of draftifying as a back door means of deletion
• MOS:DABSEEALSO – mentions the use of {{look from}} and {{in title
  }}
• Some people are opposed to integrating OpenStreetMap into Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#OpenStreetMap advertising?). I see a parallel with the opposition to using Wikidata to generate short descriptions; editors on en.wiki want to be able to control everything on en.wiki.
• Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 November 2#Mountain Meadows massacre/Archive 1 – follow-up RfD needed?
• User:Legacypac/Cleanup Guide
• User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects
• Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers