Wikimedian, Librivoxer and photographer; retired patent attorney. Past wiki roles have included admin and bureaucrat on Commons, chair of Wikimedia UK, and organiser of Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK. Currently jury member for several Wiki Loves contests.
I am the operator of ShortDescBot, a bot to add and improve short descriptions.
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Useful Wiki pages
editTemplates
editLinks
edit- Template:Template link expanded {{tlx|xxxx}}
Problems
edit- Template:Unreferenced - for articles with no sources at all {{Unreferenced}}
- Template:Unreferenced - for sections with no sources {{Unreferenced section}}
- Template:More citations needed {{More citations needed}} or {{Refimprove}}
Layout
edit- Template:Poem quote {{Poem quote| }}
- Can be used not only for poetry but also prose where the paragraph structure should be maintained
- Template:Section link {{Section link|pagename#sectionname}}
- Template:lang-en-emodeng Early modern English spelling {{lang-en-emodeng|label=none|xxxx}}
Citation
edit- Help:Citation Style 1
- Template:Cite web
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite journal
- Template:Cite conference
- Template:Cite magazine
- Template:Cite news
- Template:Cite report
- Template:Cite techreport - manual only
- Template:Sfn
- Up to 4 authors can be included in the cite, eg {{sfn |Burnett |Nunes |2021 |loc=section 1}}
- To fix an error of the type "Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFChisholm1911", create an sfn inline reference like this: {{sfn |Chisholm |1911}}
- Template:Citation
- Template:Cite legislation UK
- Template:Cite OED {{Cite OED |xxxwordxxx |access-date= xxx }}
- Template:Cite ODNB {{Cite ODNB |title= ODNBarticlename |doi= |last= |first= |author-link= |freearticle= }}
- If doi is not present, use |id= ODNBarticlenumber instead
- |freearticle=y adds a green open padlock icon to the reference
- No need to record access date
- Template:lang-en-emodeng Early modern En {{lang-en-emodeng |label=none |xxxxx }}
External sources
edit- Template:Internet Archive {{Internet Archive|id= |name= }}
- Template:Internet Archive author {{Internet Archive author |sname= }} Best results using full name as sname
- Template:Gutenberg book {{Gutenberg |no= |name= }}
- Template:Gutenberg author {{Gutenberg author |id= |name= }}
- Template:Librivox book {{Librivox book |title= |author= }}
- Template:Librivox author {{Librivox author |id= |title= }} Title is author name; get id from URL
Policies and Guidelines
edit- Wikipedia:Policy Library
- Wikipedia:List of policies
- Wikipedia:List of guidelines
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources
- Wikipedia:Shortcuts
- Wikipedia:Three-revert rule
- Wikipedia:External links
- Wikipedia:Etiquette
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
- WP:NOTCOMPULSORY – no requirement to give more time and effort than you wish
Writing articles
edit- Wikipedia:The perfect article
- Wikipedia:Lead section
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Footnotes
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Citing sources/example style
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels
Images
edit- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
- Wikipedia:Image description page
- Wikipedia:Non-free content
Other
editVandalism
editEssays
edit- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- WP:OTHERCONTENT – shouldn't add bad content just because other content exists
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages
- WP:OTHERSTUFF – shouldn't keep a bad article just because it's similar to another article
Other
editArticles for deletion
editPending changes review
editTools
edit- Run Javascript Wiki Browser (instructions)
- FindLink - add links to articles
- WikiGet - command line tool to get plain list of articles for bots
Other resources
editProjects
editPersonal
editFallacies
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