User:Karlhahn/usefulLinks
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This page contains various links and examples useful to Wikipedians
Base page was copied from user:Van helsing/links. Current page has much more added.
- Wikipedia:Shortcuts
- Category:Wikipedia guidelines
- Category:Wikipedia style guidelines
- Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
- Special:ExpandTemplates
[edit] Online Science and Math papers (ArXiv)
Use the link above to find the archive.
[edit] Making External links
Use [http://website.com text] to make links. Example: Google search engine. Use class="plainlinks" to suppress the little external links symbol that appears to the right of the link. Example: <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.google.com Google search engine]</span> gives: Google search engine
[edit] Permitted HTML
[edit] Wikitable syntax
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
gives:
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | B1 | C1 |
| A2 | B2 | C2 |
Using tables to align colums
::{| width="450"
| width="50%" | HCO<sub>3</sub><sup>–</sup> ↔ H<sup>+</sup> + CO<sub>3</sub><sup>2–</sup>
| ''K<sub>a2</sub>'' = 5.61×10<sup>–11</sup> at 25 °C
|-
| another chemical equation
| ''K'' = some other value
|}
gives:
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HCO3– ↔ H+ + CO32– Ka2 = 5.61×10–11 at 25 °C another chemical equation K = some other value
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- Sortable tables with: {| class="wikitable" class="sortable" or {| class="wikitable sortable"
- example
| C1 (ok) | C2 (ok) | C3 (wrong) | C4 (wrong) | C5 (wrong) | C6 (wrong) | C7 (ok) | C8 (ok) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorem | 1 | -16.157 | -16 | 433,617 | 433 617 | 433,617 | 433617 |
| ipsum | 2 | -98.804 | -98 | 59,390 | 59 390 | 59,390 | 59390 |
| dolor | 3 | -147.757 | -147 | 482,614 | 482 614 | 482,614 | 482614 |
| sit | 4 | 82.007 | 82 | 966,067 | 966 067 | 966,067 | 966067 |
| amet, | 5 | -394.834 | -394 | 958,710 | 958 710 | 958,710 | 958710 |
| consectetur | 6 | -459.717 | -459 | 702,225 | 702 225 | 702,225 | 702225 |
| adipisicing | 7 | 323.799 | 323 | 4,142 | 4 142 | 4,142 | 4142 |
| elit | 8 | 243.842 | 243 | 851,769 | 851 769 | 851,769 | 851769 |
Tables in tables
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"
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{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
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{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
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{|class="wikitable"
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! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
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| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
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{|class="wikitable"
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! Header 1 !! Header 2 !! Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
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| A2 || B2 || C2
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|}
gives
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Chem-style tables
{| {{subst:User:Karlhahn/myBoxAttr}}
|- {{chembox header}}
| Header 1 || Header 2 || Header 3
|-
| A1 || B1 || C1
|-
| A2 || B2 || C2
|}
gives
| Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |
| A1 | B1 | C1 |
| A2 | B2 | C2 |
[edit] Image syntax
[[Image:beer.jpg|thumb|100px|left|Yummy]]
Gives:
[edit] Some nice(r) ones
[edit] Example of scrollable multiple images
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[edit] Moving Images to Commons
See Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons
[edit] Categories
Put categories at the end of the source text (but before language links) in the form:
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- [[Category:<name of category>|<variant of article name that category should sort by>]]
Example for category on hypothetical biographical article for Joe Blow; putting him into the category of Schlemiels:
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- [[Category:Schlemiels|Blow, Joe]]
[edit] Useful category pages
Category:Mathematics_user_templates || Category:Wikipedian engineers || Category:Profession user templates || Category:Wikipedians interested in chemistry || Category:WikiProject user templates || Category:US state of residence user templates
[edit] Use of the leading colon in links
Within the linking brackets ( [[ ]] ), using a colon as the first character will provide the link without doing any special namespace function. For example, [[:Category:Schlemiels]] will provide a link to the Category:Schlemiels page without placing the page on which the link occurs into that category. [[:Image:PhotoOfASchlemiel.jpg]] will provide a link to the specified image page without placing the actual image on the page where the link occurs.
[edit] References
Multi 1:<ref name="refname"> The ref itself </ref>
Multi 2:<ref name="refname"/>
Single:<ref> The ref itself </ref>
Where they go:<references/>
Important note: the <ref> tag cannot be used inside a template.
[edit] Miscellaneous templates
Link to guideline for Chembox new template.
[edit] Citation templates
See Category:Citation_templates
[edit] My own template for contributions link
Use User:Karlhahn/userContribs template for making link to a user's contributions. Example: {{User:Karlhahn/userContribs|Karlhahn|my contributions}} gives:my contributions. This template is now also in main template namespace at template:userContribs. Usage: {{userContribs|<userID or IP>|[optional text]}}
[edit] Commons and Wiktionary
Use {{Commons|<topic name>}} and {{wiktionary|<topic name>}} to create pointer-boxes for Wiki commons and Wiktionary respectively.
[edit] Citation needed flag
Use {{fact|date=<date>}} to flag unsupported statements in articles.
[edit] Default sorting of categories
Use {{DEFAULTSORT:Sortkey}} to set the default sorting key for categories invoked in an article. For example, a biographical article entitle "Joe Blow" could use {{DEFAULTSORT:Blow, Joe}} in order not to have to add the sort key argument to each of the categories.
[edit] Nowiki template templates
Use {{tl|template}} to render to {{template}}. Use {{tlp|template|arg}} to render to {{template|arg}}. Use the template, tlx for up to three args.
[edit] Dispute copyright status
Use {{pui}} on target image's talk page. See template:pui for usage and auxiliary templates that go with this one.
[edit] User boxes
Master user box template is at template:userbox. See template talk:userbox for instructions on its use. See Category:userbox templates for specific user boxes.
[edit] User page deletions
Use {{db-owner}} tag at the top of a user page to mark the user page for deletion.
[edit] Unicode Symbols
See Miscellaneous_Symbols for how to do special symbols that won't render in IE 6 (using {{Unicode|<glyph>}}). Also see this table of unicode fonts for a wide variety of symbol codes and more about unicode here.
[edit] User warning templates
See user warning templates. Useful: {{Uw-test1}} | {{Uw-test2}} | {{Uw-test3}} | {{Uw-test4}} | {{bv}} | {{Uw-vandalism1}} | {{Uw-vandalism2}} | {{Uw-vandalism3}} | {{Uw-vandalism4}} | {{Uw-vandalism4im}} | {{Uw-selfrevert}}. Always use "subst:". First arg is name of page that was vandalized. I've also got my own template at user:Karlhahn/nonadminWarn to be posted as last measure.
See user talk header templates for various user talk IP classification templates. Also see this list of templates.
[edit] To flag disruptive user for blocking
Use {{IPvandal|<IP address>}} on reporting page to flag anonymous vandal, use {{vandal|<userID>}} to report a user account. See block log for who's been blocked recently, by whom, and why.
[edit] Chem data template
[edit] External link to isotope data
ie.lbl.gov/education/isotopes.htm
[edit] External link to U.S. Census Maps
[edit] My user pages
Special:Prefixindex/User:Karlhahn
[edit] Link to info on Popups
[edit] Formulas
[edit] Wikipedia science links
[edit] Humor
Category:Wikipedia humor Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars Wikipedia:Unusual articles
[edit] Interesting
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