User:Geniac

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1 Disambiguation
2 Vandalism
3 User talk pages
4 Edit summaries
5 Tags
6 Userboxen

Hi.

I'm Geniac. Not a Geniac; I am a human being. "Geniac" has been my online name for about... ummm... 12 years or so. If I were a collection of 50-year-old hardwood and jumpers, it would be pretty tricky for me to edit Wikipedia. I wouldn't even have opposable thumbs.

To leave me a message, please use my talk page. Thanks.

[edit] Disambiguation

I'm a participant in WikiProject Disambiguation, particularly disambiguation link repair and formatting disambiguation pages correctly. The following is a list of pages that that I check for incoming links at least once a week, some every day.

[edit] Vandalism

I have found that checking incoming links to the following "articles" regularly is an easy way of finding large amounts of either blatant vandalism or test edits by new users.

[edit] User talk pages

I use the following templates and snippets quite often on user talk pages. I have found that it is helpful to keep the following snippets of code in a text file, ready to copy-paste where needed.

==Welcome!==
{{subst:welcomeg}}

{{subst:welcome2}} --~~~~

{{subst:anon}} --~~~~

==Preview==
{{subst:preview}} --~~~~

==Edit summary==
{{subst:editsummary}} --~~~~

{{subst:summary}} --~~~~

For accepting/declining submissions to [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]], please use [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Templates|the templates]]. Thanks. --~~~~

Please remember that you [[WP:SIG|sign your posts on talk pages]], but never in articles. Thank you and happy editing! --~~~~

Regarding user talk pages, it is best to not delete notices, but instead, to archive them. You will find how to do this at [[Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page]]. Actively erasing non-harassing personal messages is often interpreted as hostile. In the past, this kind of behavior has been viewed as [[Wikipedia:Civility|uncivil]]. For this reason, if your deletion of notices and concerns on your user talk page is to keep the "clutter" down, I suggest that you instead create archives for these messages. --~~~~

I have removed what appears to be chat messages from your talk page because [[WP:NOT#SOCIALNET|Wikipedia is not a social networking site.]] Thank you. --~~~~

It is the links to standalone years that should be delinked. Any date with a month and year SHOULD be linked so that the page will display the date according to the what the user has set in their [[Wikipedia:User preferences|User preferences]]. See [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates containing a month and a day]]. --~~~~

[edit] Edit summaries

I use the following snippets quite often in edit summaries.

de-linked low added-value items per [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#Overlinking and underlinking: what's the best ratio?|MoS:L]]

formatted per [[WP:UW]]

formatted per [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Individual entries|MoS:DP#Individual entries]]

rvv by [[Special:Contributions/|]] ([[User_talk:|talk]])

reversed unhelpful edit by [[Special:Contributions/|]] ([[User_talk:|talk]])

rv content rm with no ES by [[Special:Contributions/|]] ([[User_Talk:|talk]])

[[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a directory|Wikipedia is not the yellow pages]]

formatting to reduce horizontal scrolling

Disambiguation link repair - [[WP:DPL|You can help!]]

[edit] Tags

I tend to use these tags in articles the most:

{{Wikify|March 2007}}
{{Cleanup|March 2007}}
{{Primarysources|date=March 2007}}
{{Unreferenced|date=March 2007}}
{{Uncategorized|March 2007}}
{{Fact|date=March 2007}}