User:Colonel Warden/glossary

The following table may help in understanding my usage, especially in edit summaries, where I am inclined to be terse.

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Usage

!Meaning

1st draft

|the first version of a new article or section

+

|an addition. + 1 indicates an addition of an entry in a list, +2 = two entries &c.

-

|a subtraction or removal

&c.

|et cetera. In an edit summary, this indicates other changes besides the headlined one.

ack.

|a simple response to acknowledge a message

alt.

|alternative

amend

|alter, change, refactor or replace

braces

|curly brackets

caps

|capital letter(s)

cat

|category

citation

|a reference to a source

clarify

|to make clearer

Colonel Warden

|a nom de guerre which was also used by Winston Churchill when travelling incognito.

dab

|disambiguation

endorse

|to support another statement

expand

|to develop and make larger. This includes developing a redirect into a stub or full article.

false

|counterfactual, incorrect or untrue

ft:

|full text - used in edit summaries to indicate the new text

improper

|contrary to good practise and procedure

improve

|to make better

ital

|italic

k

|keep - typically found at AFD

links to sources

|usually a reference to the {{tl|find}} template which displays useful links to books, journals, &c.

my hovercraft is full of eels

|incomprehensible phrases such as this are likely to be English humour

oppose

|to contradict another statement

pip-pip!

|an affected farewell salutation, also found in the works of P.G.Wodehouse

prod

|proposed deletion

re

|about, regarding or related to

rebut

|counter or disprove another statement

red link

|a link to an article or category which does not exist and so is displayed in red

redirect to

|replace with a redirect

restructure

|rearrange or reorganise

revert

|to return to a previous version

rewrite

|to write again as a fresh start

sk

|speedy keep - typically found at AFD

sort

|rearrange in order - usually alphabetical

sp.

|a spelling correction

stale

|old, inactive or obsolete

sundry edits

|a number of edits which cannot easily be summarised

tag

|a template, especially an intrusive banner upon an article

tidy

|housekeeping such as removing old or stale discussions

trim

|contract, précis, prune or tighten

tsk

|an expression of disapproval

tweak

|a minor edit

typo

|a typographical mistake or typing error

ugh

|an expression of distaste

!vote

|a not-vote - the local way of describing a formal contribution to a poll-like discussion such as WP:AFD.

wipe

|blank a section which is no longer required such as a notification on my talk page.