Assume good faith edit

WP:AGF and also User:SheffieldSteel/AGFAFAIR, retrieved from Talk:Moon, 20:02, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Templates edit

New Good-Guy --> Vandalism templates edit

For when an editor leaves out a necessary parameter in a reference citation:
  [[Image:Information.svg|25px]] Thank you for the reference citation you included on the [[pagename]] page. Please be aware that you must also include a "url=" parameter when you provide an "accessdate=" date. This answers the question, "What was accessed?" or "What was retrieved?". Thank you again for your improvements to Wikipedia! ~~~~


A Thank You to an IP editor who undoes vandalism:
{{subst:tyip|Pagename|<br />~~~~<br />{{subst:Welcome-anon}}}}

  A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism in the Pagename article. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia!
 —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  15:11, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
{{subst:Welcome-anon}}

Please consider creating an account for yourself!


Combinations MS
{{subst:Welcome-anon}} ~~~~
*'''PS.''' {{subst:User:Paine Ellsworth/peuw-test1|Pagename}}
*'''PPS.''' {{subst:uw-editsummary|Pagename}} '''''Please provide the edit summary before saving your edits.''''' Thank you very much!
::''If this is a shared [[IP address]], and you didn't make the edit, please consider the [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|creation of a free User account]] for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.''


{{subst:Welcome}} ~~~~

Also . . .
{{subst:Welcome-anon}} ~~~~

Welcome!

Hello, Paine Ellsworth, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome!  —  Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  04:06, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


Per WP:Vandalism...

"Thank you for your help undoing vandalism"
== Thank you very much! ==
[[Image:Information.svg|25px]] Thank you for your help undoing the vandalism in the [[Pagename]] article. Unfortunately, when the vandalism is only "undone", other information is sometimes lost. So it helps to know how to [[Help:Page history|check the history]] of an article and to learn how to [[Help:Reverting|revert]] the vandalism in a way that information isn't lost. Thank you so much for your efforts to help improve this encyclopedia, and [[Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia|Welcome]] to Wikipedia! ~~~~


Check this out!...
WARNING - unencyclopedic ext. links - 4 levels - by Thadius856



Single-issue user warning or notice templates
Notices Warnings

{{subst:uw-test1|Pagename}} ~~~~
:''If this is a shared [[IP address]], and you didn't make the edit, please consider the [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|creation of a free User account]] for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.'' (for test edits that are not vandalism)

  Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Pagename worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.  —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  02:07, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, please consider the creation of a free User account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

{{subst:uw-selfrevert|Pagename}} ~~~~ (for self-reverted test edits)
  Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for reverting your recent experiment with the page Pagename. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-editsummary|Pagename}} ''Please provide the edit summary '''before saving''' your edits.'' Thank you very much!<br>
~~~~ (for when an edit summary was not produced)

  Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Pagename. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Please provide the edit summary before saving your edits. Thank you very much!
 —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  23:54, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

{{subst:uw-error|Pagename}}<br>
~~~~ (for when a dubious addition was not sourced)

  Your recent edit to the page Pagename appears to have added incorrect information and has been reverted or removed. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for any tests that you wish to make. Do take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you.
 —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  18:52, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


{{subst:uw-vandalism1|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (unintentional vandalism/test)

  Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to PageName, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-vandalism2|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (suitable for nonsense)

  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to PageName. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-vandalism3|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (please stop)

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at PageName, you will be blocked from editing.

{{subst:uw-vandalism4|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (last warning)

  This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as those you made to PageName. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing.


{{subst:uw-delete1|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (unintentional removal of content)

  Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from PageName. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-delete2|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (variant for removal of content)

  Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to PageName, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-delete3|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (please stop removing content)

  Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to PageName, you will be blocked from editing.

{{subst:uw-delete4|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (last warning for removing content)

  This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you delete or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did to PageName, you will be blocked from editing.


{{subst:uw-unsourced1|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding unsourced claims)

  Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Pagename, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-unsourced2|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding unsourced claims)

  Please do not add content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did to Pagename. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-unsourced3|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding unsourced claims)

  Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to Pagename. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

{{subst:uw-unsourced4|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding unsourced claims)

  This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did to Pagename, you will be blocked from editing.


{{subst:uw-biog1|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding to living person's bio article)

  Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions, including your edits to Pagename. However, please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that biographical information about living persons must not be libelous. Any controversial statements about a living person added to an article, or any other Wikipedia page, must include proper sources. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-biog2|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding to living person's bio article)

  Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Pagename. Thank you.

{{subst:uw-biog3|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding to living person's bio article)

  Please stop adding unreferenced controversial biographical content to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Pagename. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

{{subst:uw-biog4|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding to living person's bio article)

  This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory or otherwise controversial content into an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did to Pagename, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.


{{subst:uw-spam1|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding unencyclopedic external links)

  Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page PageName do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.
 —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  15:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

{{subst:uw-spam2|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding unencyclopedic external links)

  Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to PageName. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.
 —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  15:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

{{subst:uw-spam3|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding unencyclopedic external links)

  Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to PageName. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
 —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  15:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

{{subst:uw-spam4|PageName}}<br>
~~~~ (adding unencyclopedic external links)

  This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to PageName, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.
 —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  15:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)


Request for an administrator edit

General requests
Administrators noticeboard
Administrator intervention against vandalism – specific vandalism blocks

Block requests edit

  1. {{Vandal|Mazzaman1997}} numerous recent and older disruptive edits - attempted Java code on [[Wikipedia]] ~~~~

Template group edit

{{Template group
|title = Articles Related to Wikipedia (default is "Links to related articles")
|list =
{{Wikipedia}}
{{Wikipedia Foundation}}
{{Wikipedias}}
}}

Message boxes (misc.) edit

Wikipedia:Article_message_boxes for article boxes
Wikipedia:Template_messages/Talk_namespace for Talk page including "Resolved" - "Not resolved"

Spelling and grammar edit

{{Copyedit|date=June 2009}}

Citations required edit

{{Refimprove|date=September 2008}}

{{More footnotes|date=May 2009}}

{{Nofootnotes|date=May 2009}}

{{Unreferenced|section|date=June 2007}} (default is "article")

Too many images edit

{{Too many photos|date=June 2010}}

Convert edit

See Template:Convert and specially Template:Convert/check!

{{convert|18.4|C|F|1|lk=on|abbr=on}} = 18.4 °C (65.1 °F)

{{convert|100|mi|km}} = 100 miles (160 km)

Stub templates listing edit

Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types

Broken link edit

{{dead link|date=May 2009}} not a good link[dead link]

Done/Not done edit

{{ESp|d}}   Done

{{ESp|n}}   Not done:

Talkback - Notify of message edit

{{tb|Paine Ellsworth|Jodie Foster 2}}

 
Hello, Paine Ellsworth. You have new messages at Paine Ellsworth's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Wiktionary - Wikiquote - Wikicommons edit

{{Wiktionarypar|Laziness}}
{{Wikiquote|Power}}
{{Commonscat|Faith}}

{{For}} template edit

{{For|other uses of "liberty"|Liberty (disambiguation)}}

Tooltip (mouseover) edit

From the Benjamin Franklin article:
"{{Tooltip|Eripuit fulmen coelo sceptrumque tyrannis.|He snatched the lightning from the skies and the scepter from the tyrants.}}" renders...
"Eripuit fulmen coelo sceptrumque tyrannis." (mouseover - move your mouse over the underlined words)

Appears to have been deprecated due to accessibility issues. See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 February 26#Template:Tooltip— The Tooltip template now REDIRECTS to {{Abbr}}. As if. You know? some accessibility issues cause loss of some really neat stuff. Heave a sigh.
NO, I was incorrect! There seems to be a bit of a lag when I mouseover the tooltipped sentence, but now that I have gone back to the Ben Franklin page and checked the same quote in ref.# 59 (13 Aug 2010), I see that the mouseover still works. So there is no actual functionality lost (other than the underlining, which may be an improvement).
 —  Paine (Ellsworth's Climax)  07:51, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

{{Confusing}} templates edit

{{Confusing}}
{{Confusing|section}}

{{Clarifyme}} template edit

[clarification needed] {{Clarifyme|date=month year|focusing question(?)}}

{{Quantify}} template edit

[quantify] {{quantify|date=month year|focusing statement}} (EXCELLENT See also section at Template:Quantify)

Left66 template edit

Ref.: Template:Left66

Deleted— there are other ways to do the same thing these templates did— so EXPLORE!

THE FOLLOWING IS NO LONGER VALID: If you ever see a template on the right of a page, and the text doesn't wrap around it leaving a huge gap, and title underlines may go through the template, you can use one of the following templates to wrap the text to the left of the template (but pay a little attention to your web browser's "text size" setting)...

  • {{left60}} or {{left66}}

then you can end the wrap with...

  • {{left60|end=1}} or {{left66|end=1}}

Have Fun! Be Bold! Write and Edit Responsibly!

Inuse and Underconstruction templates edit

{{inuse}}
{{Underconstruction}}

{{Fact}} template edit

[citation needed]— {{Fact}} (or {{Cn}}, which is better because it stresses verification and does not overemphasize truth)

Recentism bias edit

The "Recentism" tags...

{{Recentism}}

{{Recentism|article}}

{{Recentism|section}}

Cquote edit

Doncha jus' LOVE the "cquote"?...

Unfortunately it is Wikipedia policy that cquotes only be used with pull quotes. Darn. Well, those quotes aren't supposed to be in italics, either. There is one good thing about the Quote template, though...

These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

— Thomas Paine, The Crisis

So it appears that the regular ol' "Quote" template does have some benefits: Piping and paragraphing. And lest we forget!... One NEVER uses quotation marks (") to surround these kinds of quote formats!

Then theres the "Cquotetxt" template...


Kinda screwed up on that last quotation mark, but still very sigh worthy!

Layout edit

Wikipedia:Layout#Lead_section shows how top of article should be laid out.

User boxes edit

Wikipedia:Userboxes
User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes
Template:User DYK

 This user has written or expanded a number of articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.



Template:User Did You Know

 A fact from the article [[{{{1}}}]], which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.




Index edit

Wikipedia:Templates

by Ellsworth edit

Lead for Will to power edit

New lead for Will to power article:
The will to power (German: "der Wille zur Macht") is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche believed to be the main driving force in man; achievement, ambition, the striving to reach the highest possible position in life, these are all manifestations of the will to power.

Alfred Adler incorporated the will to power into his individual psychology. This can be contrasted to the other Viennese schools of psychotherapy: Sigmund Freud's pleasure principle (will to pleasure) and Victor Frankl's logotherapy (will to meaning). Each of these schools advocate and teach a very different main driving force in man. The will to power can be found in nature in the dominance hierarchies studied in many living species.

List of Usenet personalities edit

User:Paine_Ellsworth/Sandbox2 – (Later, with consensus, I moved this page to Usenet celebrity).

Effort to rename Shirley Temple edit

User:Paine_Ellsworth/Sandbox3 – result: No consensus to move page; however, a major technical problem was resolved: The cats (categories) at the bottom of the Shirley Temple article listed her name under the T's as "Shirley Temple". This was a problem because several of the cats were for her adult notability. Her name should be listed in, for example, the "Female diplomats" category under the B's as "Shirley Temple Black", not under the T's as "Shirley Temple".


If one tried merely to oppose the DEFAULTSORT and install her full name within the cat template, this placed her name under the B's in the category, but due to the fact that the listing in the category was still governed by the PAGENAME of the article the category is in, the listing would still appear as just "Shirley Temple". So it turns out that there are only two ways to get her full name, Shirley Temple Black, fully and completely into the cats under the B's. Either one must move (completely move, not just copy) the appropriate cats to the Shirley Temple Black Redirect page, or one must rename the Shirley Temple article to Shirley Temple Black. After the debate, it was decided that the latter was not an option at that time, and the former choice, moving cats to the Redirect page, would be the way to go.


So just as long as no cat appears on both pages at the same time (this would cause her to be listed twice in that cat, which is unacceptable), this is a viable resolution to the technical problem. The appropriate cats are now listed on the Redirect page, and her name appears in those cats under the B's as Shirley Temple Black (italicized because it's a Redirect page).


Later NOTE: This from Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages – "It is also usually considered helpful to put redirects into the same categories as their targets, allowing the names of both the redirect and the target to appear in the category." This seems to say that a dual listing in a category of the same person is not only okay, it is "usually considered helpful". Now what do I do with this new information?  .`^) Paine Ellsworthdiss`cuss (^`.  12:23, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

The Jackdaw article edit

User:Paine_Ellsworth/Sandbox4 – fair use excerpt from Ardrey's African Genesis.

Subsection for Will to power edit

User:Paine_Ellsworth/Sandbox5 – attempt to clarify "will to power" for readers.

Coincidence article edit

Coincidence – made some major additions.

Wikipedia edit

Manual of Style edit

Preservation/Verification of content edit

The Numbers Game edit

Policies and Guidelines edit

  • in a nutshell...

Wikipedia Cheatsheet edit

Wikipedians edit

Be Bold edit

Archivebox edit

On the right is an archive box from Talk:The Age of Reason discussion page.
This is to show the flexibility of the archive box.

Strikethrough edit

In real life, what has been said cannot be "unsaid", however at those times when I wish to "take back" something I've said, and be realistic about it, I use the html <del> tag, like this...

<del>I know I've already said this, and there's really no way to undo it, but I'd like to take it back.</del>

That's called a strikethrough

Alphabetized references edit

(See edit page for details): sci.astro.amateur,[a] alt.astronomy[b]

  1. ^ sci.astro.amateur
  2. ^ alt.astronomy

NOTE: When "z" is reached, this system starts over with "aa", "ab", etc.

Images edit

Manual of Style edit

The Wikipedia Manual of Style on Images

Info image edit

[[Image:Information.png|25px]]
  An "information" image to help fight vandalism and poor good-faith edits.  .`^) Painediss`cuss (^`.  21:46, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Donut edit

 
Mmm, unsolicited nomination for egoboo

Have a donut! (sometimes placed on the right side of a User:Talk page - looks better on the left?)








Wiktionary links edit

Wiktionary: edit

notoriety [[Wiktionary:notoriety|notoriety]]

Wikt: edit

disperse not to be confused with disburse [[Wikt:disburse|disburse]]

Wikimedia Milestones (WOWSERS) edit

Wowsers! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milestones

Line-break handling edit

Here's more on "Line break handling" in Wikipedia!

Section Archiving edit

Discussion - consensus or no consensus edit

{{Discussion top|No consensus reached. Article will remain as it is. ~~~~
Then at the very end, after all the comments, add {{Discussion bottom}}

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
No consensus reached. Article will remain as it is.  .`^) Paine Ellsworthdiss`cuss (^`.  04:47, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.
Lots and lots of discussion.

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Trolling, etc. edit

{{hat|reason=Trolling ~~~~}}
Then at the very end, after all the trolling, etc., add {{hab}}

Trolling  —  Paine Ellsworth ( CLIMAX )  09:30, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.
Lots of trolling and taking the bait.

Please beware those weirdly behaving worms!