User talk:Lou Sander/Useful Stuff
Lou Sander's Useful Stuff[edit]
- Help:Cheatsheet
- Help:Wiki markup
- Words to Watch
- Editors Index to Wikipedia
Done = {{done}}- __NOTOC__ (with two underscores on either side of the word)
- <!--Comment-->
- Pinging Simple ping: {{reply to|Username}} followed by message text.
- Help:Wiki markup
- Archiving a Talk Page
- Tools
- Lotsa Tools
- Wikimedia Commons
- Template:Non-free_book_cover
- Tables
- My "Tables Sandbox"
- Wikipedia:Deletion process
- List of citation templates GOOD!
- Template:Cite Book
- "Citation needed" fact|date=May 2005
- Name it: <ref name='Foo'> Refer to it: <ref name="Foo"/>
- Nonbreaking space: AMPnbspSEM
- Quotation Marks: WP:LQ
Archiving a Talk Page[edit]
- Get into edit mode on the talk page that contains the material you want to archive
- Near the top of that talk page, create a link to the prospective archive page. Example: [[/Archive 1]]
- On the talk page, cut the material that you want to archive
- Save the talk page (now minus the material to be archived), using an edit summary like "Archiving old material"
- When the new, smaller talk page comes up on your screen, find and click the link you added at the top (it will be red): /Archive 1
- A blank page will come up, with the name you have chosen for your archive. Paste the cut material into it
- Add {{talk archive}} before and after the pasted material. (You can copy it from here if you like. Be sure to get all the curly brackets, and don't worry about the underline.)
- Save the new page, with an edit summary like "New archive"
- Optionally go back to the main talk page and add an {{archivebox}}.
- Remove the (formerly red) link you added at the top of the talk page, then save the page, using an edit summary like "Added Archive Box"
Here is a cool archive box that lets you give a descriptive name to your archive:
{{Archive box|[[/Archive 1|Archive 1 - DescriptiveNameOfArchive1]]}}
Here is a cooler one with three archives, each on its own line:
{{Archive box|[[/Archive 1|NameOfArchive1]]<br>[[/Archive 2|NameOfArchive2]]<br>[[/Archive 3|NameOf Archive3]]}}
Old stuff[edit]
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