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Templates & markup etc

  • WP:TUSER templates for user messages and warnings
  • {{subst:anon}} Welcome to Wikipedia - anon user (IP address)
  • {{subst:welcome2}} Welcome to Wikipedia - new user
  • ({{tl|subst:test1}} {{tl|subst:test2}} {{tl|subst:test3}} {{tl|subst:test4}}) Vandalism warnings
  • Wikipedia:Template messages
  • {{unreferencedsect}} Unreferenced section tag
  • {{fact}} Citation needed: Looks like: {{fact}}
  • {{Fact|date=February 2007}} Citation with date
  • {{who}}) Attribution needed. Looks like: {{who}})
  • {{unsourced}} Puts a box in the article stating that sources are required.
  • Reverted edits by 00.00.00.00 (talk) to last version by Username
  • Wikipedia:Userboxes
  • Referencing Userboxes {{subst: user nameofbox}}
  • {{SectOR}} Original research or unverified claims warning box
  • {{WPBiography|living=yes|class=|importance=}} Biography template for article talk pages
  •
    Stops formatting of text too.
  • To add comment text within and article

  •  Force new line
  • {{SubArticle|Windows Vista}} Subarticle template - put on Talk page of article
  • {{see also|Results of the Victorian legislative election, 2006}} - put in article to show subarticle
  • {{main|Victorian legislative election, 2006}} Put at start of subarticle to designate parent
  • {{update}} Flag article for update needed
  • Image:Kitesurf jump aerial.jpg Image tag with sizing and positioning
  • Big text Big text
  • :w:en:User:Peter Campbell Add this to other wikis to reference Wikipedia user account

Box with a border: text in here

  • {{db-userreq}} Requested for user subpage to be deleted by the user with whom it is associated.
  • Wikipedia:Gallery tag for photo galleries
  • 20px Place the {{tl|unsigned}} template on a talk page and requested pages when a user adds a comment and forgets to sign. (User:HagermanBot).
  • text tags to prevent wiki markup language between them being read

Indented list

  • ;Category name:indented text follows

;Looks like

:point 1

:point 2

Gallery syntax for images

The basic syntax is:





Image:Wiki.png


Image:Wiki.png|Captioned


Image:Wiki.png


Image:Wiki.png|Links can be put in captions.


Image:Wiki.png


Image:Wiki.png|Full MediaWiki
syntax may now be used…

Handy images for warnings etc

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Shortcuts

Unsigned edit ID example

{{subst:unsigned|user name|date}}

;user name : name or IP of user who left comment

;date : datestamp from edit history (remember to label it UTC)

Looks like: —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.121.179.186 (talk • contribs) {{{2|}}}.

General items

Some tips from [[User:ScottDavis]]'s page

Good ways of increasing your edit count include

Press References

{{authoronlinesource2006|section=Month

| author=author name

| title=article title

| org=source (e.g. newspaper or journal)

| url=http://www.url.com/1.html

| date=Monday DD, YYYY }}

And update Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2006

{{shortcut|WP:SOURCE}}

Quotation template

{{cquote|Quoted text looks like this|20px|20px|Bill Thompson|

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4534712.stm What is it with Wikipedia?]}}

{{cquote|Quoted text looks like this|20px|20px|Bill Thompson| [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4534712.stm What is it with Wikipedia?]}}

Links to other wikis

Simple table markup



header 1


! header 2


! header 3
row 1, cell 1


| row 1, cell 2


| row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1


| row 2, cell 2


| row 2, cell 3