RickScott

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~ About ~

This user comes from Canada.

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

ja-1この利用者は初級の日本語ができます。

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Travel nerd, language nerd, software nerd, systems nerd. Trying to make the world a better place.

Interests

Professional	Crossover	Personal
Systems thinking	Language	Music
Humane computing	Travel	Outdoors
Sustainable work	Infrastructure	Knitting

Gratuitous homepage link

Wikipedia editing cribnotes

Policies & Guidelines

Wikipedia generally

• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
  • Notability
    • People | Athletes -- see also WP:NSPORTS2022
    • Places & Geographic features
  • WP:NPoV | Verifiability | WP:NOR
  • Citing sources | Help:Referencing for beginners
    • Reliable sources | Perennial sources

• Manual of Style
• Help:Minor edit (aka "what is/isn't a minor edit")
• Redlinks (and when to create them)
• Stubs

Specific topic guidelines

• Wikipedia:Contentious topics (topics which historically have attracted more disruptive edits than usual)
• Wikipedia:List of accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft/Guideline for inclusion criteria and format
• WikiProject Aviation: Style Guide
  • Airports: Accidents & Incidents

Wikipedia Meta

• WP:DNB
• WikiProject Editor Retention
• Who Writes Wikipedia

Templates: Hatnotes

• generally: WP:HN
• section hatnotes for split-out of related articles:
  • {{Main}}: pointing to the main article on a topic, of which this section is a summary
  • {{Further}}: for further detail on a narrower topic
  • {{Broader}}: for broader coverage of the topic, but not a main article
  • {{See also}}: related topics at roughly the same level of focus

Templates: Cites & Refs

• {{cite web}} / {{cite news}}
• {{cite book}} / {{cite journal}}

<ref>
{{cite web
    | url = 
    | title = <title of source page on website>
    | last = <lname of author>
    | first = <fname of author>
    | date = 
    | website = <website name, if it has one other than the domain name>
    | publisher = <org/company>
    | access-date = 
    | language = en
    | quote = <context quote if needed>
    | trans-quote = <quote translated into english if needed>
}}
</ref>

Check {{cite web}} for extra params if translating/using non-English sources.

Named refs

Use a normal cite for the first occurrence, with the name attribute added to the ref tag. Then use an empty ref tag for subsequent calls:

<ref name="Cite2024">{{cite...}}</ref>

<ref name="Cite2024 />

New refs section if needed

== References ==
{{reflist}}

Miscellaneous Syntax

Redirect

#REDIRECT [[Name of article]]

Interlanguage links

Easiest way is to use the {{ill}} template, which shows up as a redlink if the current language version doesn't exist, and a blue link if it does.

{{ill|Patrick Norman|fr}}
{{ill|Mikuni Pass|ja|三国峠 (群馬県・新潟県)}}

Interwiki links

Wikivoyage: the base template creates a wiki box; the inline one is suitable for use in a bulleted list.

{{Wikivoyage}}
{{Wikivoyage inline}}
{{Wikivoyage|<page on wv>|<rendered-as>}}

These almost always go in the 'External Links' section on Wikipedia.