User:Rev-san/Wikipedia cheatsheet

Tables

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Referencing, citation, archival

List-defined references (LDR), with optional notes

At the article's top, use:

{{Use list-defined references|date=August 2022}}

In the article's body, use:

Some sentence that needs references.{{r|SomeName 2000|p=10}}{{efn|name=a}} Another sentence that needs references.{{r|OtherName 2001|pp=11–12}}{{efn|name=b}}

In the (optional) Notes section, use:

{{notelist|refs= {{efn|name=a|Some explanatory note.}} {{efn|name=b|Another explanatory note.}} }}

In the References section, use:

{{reflist|refs= {{r|SomeName 2000|r=cite template}} {{r|OtherName 2001|r=cite template}} }}

Citation templates

Without archive links:

{{cite web |last= |first= |date= |title= |trans-title= |url= |via= |website= |language= |publisher= |accessdate=}}

{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date= |department= |title= |trans-title= |page= |url= |via= |language= |magazine= |publisher= |access-date= |isbn= |issn=}}

{{cite episode |last= |first= |date= |series= |number= |title= |trans-title= |time= |url= |via= |language= |station= |network= |access-date=}}

With archive links:

{{cite web |last= |first= |date= |title= |trans-title= |url= |via= |website= |language= |publisher= |accessdate= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=}}

{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date= |department= |title= |trans-title= |page= |url= |via= |language= |magazine= |publisher= |access-date= |isbn= |issn= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=}}

{{cite episode |last= |first= |date= |series= |number= |title= |trans-title= |time= |url= |via= |language= |station= |network= |access-date= |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=}}

The url-status parameter can be either live, dead, deviated, usurped or unfit. access-date refers to the original URL in the url parameter.

For Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) links, use the if_ iframe flag in the URL to remove the navigational toolbar:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130806040521if_/http://faq.web.archive.org/page-without-wayback-code/

instead of

https://web.archive.org/web/20130806040521/http://faq.web.archive.org/page-without-wayback-code/

Archival sites

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org

Archive.today (aka Archive.is): https://archive.today (redirects to the best available mirror)

Other useful templates

To use the day-month-year format and force CS1 citation templates to use DMY:

{{Use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ls}}