User:WikiUser70176/Useful

Useful links[edit]

Grammar, style, worth remembering[edit]

From User:Grant65[edit]

Misuse of dashes and hyphens, i.e.:
1. emdash ( — ) only ever used as parentheses, either with or without spaces, according to style and preference, i.e.: Sdgdf sdasfasag — bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj hfhsf agdfgf — fgagfga fasdfasdf or; Sdgdf sdasfasag—bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj hfhsf agdfgf—fgagfga fasdfasdf.
2. endash ( – ) used in ranges, such as "10–20" years. Now sometimes used as parentheses, usually with spaces, i.e. Sdgdf sdasfasag – bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj hfhsf agdfgf – fgagfga fasdfasdf.
3. hyphen ( - ), which should only ever be used both to join two words, without spaces, e.g. Hobson-Jobson. (See also en dash versus em dash.)

Template for userbox[edit]

This user's amps go to eleven.

{{Userbox

|border-c = #000000

|border-s = 1

|id-c = #000000

|id-s = 8

|id-fc = #000000

|id = [[Image:MarkIV.jpg|50px]]

|info-c = #000000

|info-s = 8

|info-fc = #FFFFFF

|info = <center>'''This user's amps [[Spinal Tap|<font color = #FFFFFF >go to eleven.</font>]]'''</center>

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Borders go first, then the id box, then the infobox.

--from One Salient Oversight

List of colours[edit]

If anyone would like to use colours apart from the standard, go to List of colors where you will be able to copy and paste the Hex triplets into your id and info boxes.

Examples:

#7BA05B - This colour is Asparagus.
#3D2B1F - This colour is Bistre.
#8A3324 - This colour is Burnt Umber

--from One Salient Oversight 00:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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Useful[edit]

Getting Started
The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image
Getting Help
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The Community
Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists
Things to do
Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism
Miscellaneous
Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

WikiUser70176 (talk) 18:55, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Help with wikidata item[edit]

I was trying to link the various pages of pepper (Capsicum) from rowiki with their counterparts in enwiki. But I messed up the Capsicum annuum interlanguage links instead (I think I assigned it a new Qid by mistake and I don't know how to undo that). Can somebody help me undo my mess? Please and thanks! ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦^{(My talk page)} 15:59, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

P.S. the old and correct QID for Capsicum annuum was Q1380. How do I "give it back"? ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦^{(My talk page)} 16:12, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiUser70176 I have restored the previous situation for the en articles

Capsicum annuum Q1380
Chili Q344355

I am not sure what the ro articles should link to, currently they are

ro:Capsicum annuum Q125646208
ro:Ardei iute Q1380

TSventon (talk) 16:49, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I panicked because I screwed up the enwiki. ro:Capsicum annuum should be Q1380, just as en:Capsicum annuum. The problem appeared when 2 rowiki pages ro:Chili and ro:Ardei iute have two different Qs but they refer to the same thing. Because ro:Chili redirects to ro:Ardei iute, I wanted to assign Q344355 to ro:Ardei iute. Long story short, I effed up enwiki by mistake. Thanks again for correcting it. BTW, how did you do it, maybe I learn something. ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦^{(My talk page)} 17:31, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiUser70176 thank you for seeking help when something went wrong. You can see what I did in today's entries at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/TSventon , each edit has a difference. I think I learned the basics of Wikidatas through trial and error, so I didn't start with a manual. The first few steps were

I opened the wikidata items Q1380 and Q344355

I clicked edit on the lists of Wikipedia links at the bottom of the page

I copied Chili from enwiki at Q1380

I clicked the remove icon for enwiki at Q1380 and then publish

I entered en and pasted Chili at the bottom of Q344355 and then clicked publish

I would also have moved the description from the In more languages section at the top, but that was already correct.

Finally I was left with duplicate items Q1380 and Q125646208 so I merged them using the merge gadget, see d:Help:Merge. I hope that all makes sense. TSventon (talk) 18:42, 27 April 2024 (UTC)