User:PointyOintment/shortcuts

This page lists other pages that I find helpful to refer to in my editing. You might find them helpful too.

Wiki editing references

Cheatsheet – Not that useful for me; I'm usually looking up how to do more advanced stuff.
Wikitext – The one I usually want. How to do just about everything.
- List
- Table
Template – Reference for creation, editing, and usage of templates.
Help navbox
Manual of Style navbox

Templates

WikiProject Templates
Template messages (navbox of)
- For articles & article talk pages
  - General – disambiguation, redirection, section main article hatnotes, footnotes & references, time-related, title technical, special character notices, expansion requests
    - Explanatory footnotes (not mentioned in that list)
  - Citations (category of) – templates for citing various kinds of media
  - Cleanup (navbox of inline ones) – organized by topic: multi-issue combined boxes, copied & pasted content, general cleanup & rewrite, subject-specified cleanup, copyediting, writing style, structure, scope, unwanted content, bad text formatting, lacking context, excessive/lacking info or detail, topic deviation, lacking citation specifications, expert attention, time-related (different selection than General has), confusion, bad summary of corresponding main article in detail article, notability, neutrality, verifiability, categorization, images/media cleanup & requests, list cleanup, technical cleanup
    - Also has a bit of guidance on using cleanup tags at the top, and a breakdown of the cleanup backlog at the bottom
  - Deletion – article & talk page notices
  - Disputes – organized by intended placement: top of article or section, top of article, top of section, inline, talk page
  - Formatting – text columns, multiple images in one frame, hide/show content, keyboard keys, flat list
    - Compact tables of contents
  - Hatnotes
  - Links – special ways of linking to specific things, both internal and external
    - internal (category of): to main articles, formatted on disambiguation pages, about German personal titles, country flag & name
    - external (category of): pieces of media, geography, databases about media, Bible verses, other wikis & databases, etc.
  - Lists – status, issues, navigation
  - Maintenance – major edits in progress, new articles, protection status, copyright, certain specific article issues, categorization
  - Merging – suggested merging, merged, merged instead of deleted, suggested splitting
  - Moving – requested moves, category rename proposals, title cleanup, suggested split, suggested move to userspace
    - Splitting
  - Sister projects – links to related content on other WMF wikis
  - Sources – multi-issue combined boxes, copied & pasted content, verifiability & sources for BLPs, issues with verifiability & sources, source search suggestions, notices of legitimate incorporation of third-party content, citations of specific sources
  - Standard boxes – calendars, diagram builders, unit converters, time converters, periodic table
  - Stub types
  - Talk: (guideline about)
    - WikiProject banners
    - Template:Done/See also – reply templates in the style of Done
  - Translation – suggestions, requests, cleanup
- Technical, non-article namespaces, inter-wiki linking
  - Deletion – discussion, file notices, suggestions to deleting admin
  - Formatting – divbox, userbox container, keyboard keys, flat list
    - Compact tables of contents for categories
  - Links – to templates, with tools
  - Moving – requested moves (incl. technical), category rename proposals, can be/will be/was copied to another wiki, file shadows Commons
  - Redirect (navbox of) – redirect reasons, talk page of, printworthiness, rcats, multi-rcat shell, category of, deprecated template redirect, category redirect, soft redirect
  - Sister projects – suggested/completed move/copy of content to other WMF wikis
  - By namespace:
    - Category:
    - File:
    - Template:
    - User:
      - Welcomes (table of, category of)
      - Warnings (category of, WikiProject)
    - User talk:
    - Wikipedia:
Infoboxes (list of, category of, WikiProject)
Navigation templates (navboxes & sidebars)
Most-transcluded templates; unused templates

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