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This page is designed to provide simple "copy and paste" versions of text which is very commonly used, but where using a Template is unnecessary.

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Fair use notice for text

Post this text in the footnotes or at the top of the text.

Used under the [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000107----000-.html fair use policy] of the United States copyright law, and under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Using_copyrighted_work_from_others Wikipedia fair use policy] See also: [http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000-all/gall-2000-12-all.html What is "Fair Use" in Copyright Law?]

Deletion notice

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From Template:Vfd

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See also: Wikipedia:Deletion policy

Disambiguation

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'''X''' can refer to:
* ...
* ...

{{disambig}}


See also Wikipedia:Disambiguation, and remember to add the link to Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages or Wikipedia:Multiple-place names.

Links

  • [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} edit]
  • [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=history}} history]
  • [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=watch}} watch]
  • [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=unwatch}} unwatch]
  • [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=purge}} purge]

Redirects

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#REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]]

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Table of contents

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  • __FORCETOC__ - a table of contents is added even if the page has fewer than four headings
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Article sections

See also

As maintext
See also: Style
''See also'': [[link1]], [[link2]], ...
As header with list of links
== See also ==
* [[Link 1]]
* [[Link 2]]

References

Under a ==Reference== or ==References== section:

From the 1911 Britannica

* ''This article incorporates text from the'' [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|Encyclopædia Britannica ''Eleventh Edition'']]''{{#if:{{{article|}}}|&#32;article {{#if:{{{url|}}}|[{{{url|}}}}} "{{{article}}}"{{#if:{{{url|}}}|]}}{{#if:{{{author|}}}|&#32;by {{{author}}}}}}}, a publication now in the [[public domain]].''<noinclude>{{pp-template|small=yes}}{{Documentation}}</noinclude>
From the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

* <span class="boilerplate" id="foldoc">''This article was originally based on material from the [[Free On-line Dictionary of Computing]], which is [[Wikipedia:Foldoc license|licensed]] under the [[GNU Free Documentation License|GFDL]].''</span><noinclude>

This template should be placed on the '''main''' page of the article. The '''{{tl|FOLDOC talk}}''' template should also be placed on the talk page. This will add the talk page to the proper category. [[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from FOLDOC| ]] [[Category:Attribution templates|{{PAGENAME}}]] [[id:Templat:FOLDOC]] [[ja:Template:FOLDOC]] </noinclude>

External links

Titles

PLEASE add a title to an external link by supplying a text after the URL separated by a space, preferably the official title of the site, or if no official title exists the clearest title you can come up with.

Most URLs are ugly and uninformative, so it is better to give an external link a meaningful title. For example,

is much more readable than

The "printable version" of a page displays all URLs in full, including those given a title, so no information is lost.

As header
See also: Style
== External links ==
* [http://www.urladdress.com Official Website Title]


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