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 | Honette's Toolbar Dashboard - Cheatsheet - Toolboxes - Sandbox - Workbox |  |
The Boxes
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Template messages
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| Description | Code |
|---|---|
| Vandalism | {{subst:uw-vandalism1}} • {{subst:uw-vandalism2}} • {{subst:uw-vandalism3}} • {{subst:uw-vandalism4}} • {{subst:uw-vandalism4im}} |
| Editing tests | {{subst:uw-test1}} • {{subst:uw-test2}} • {{subst:uw-test3}} • {{subst:uw-generic4}} |
| Page blanking, removal of content | {{subst:uw-delete1}} • {{subst:uw-delete2}} • {{subst:uw-delete3}} • {{subst:uw-delete4}} |
| Adding spam links | {{subst:uw-spam1}} • {{subst:uw-spam2}} • {{subst:uw-spam3}} • {{subst:uw-spam4}} |
| Using Wikipedia for advertising or promotion | {{subst:uw-advert1}} • {{subst:uw-advert2}} • {{subst:uw-advert3}} • {{subst:uw-advert4}} |
| Addition of unsourced or improperly cited material | {{subst:uw-unsourced1}} • {{subst:uw-unsourced2}} • {{subst:uw-unsourced3}} • {{subst:uw-generic4}} |
| Copyright + New user | {{subst:welcome - Copyright|Article|Honette}} ~~~~ |
| Conflict of interest & username issue | {{subst:uw-coi-username}} ~~~~ |
| Remind user to use edit summary | {{subst:summary}} ~~~~ |
| Welcome new user | {{subst:welcome|Honette}} ~~~~ |
| Welcome new IP user | {{subst:welcome-anon|Honette}} ~~~~ |
| New user adds and removes its contents | {{subst:User:Honette/Template/Test}} ~~~~ (Edit summary: Uw-test1) |
| Workspace | {{subst:Workpage}} |
Edit summaries
editPunctuation
edit- Inline citations are generally placed after any punctuation with no intervening space. See [[MOS:PAIC]].
- If month is before day, a comma is often written after the year. See [[Wikipedia:COPYEDIT#Common_edits|Basic copy-editing #7]].
- Style guide prefers and recommends an ellipsis is three unspaced full stops/periods. See [[WP:ELLIPSES]].
- Style guide prefers no punctuation at the end of each item. See [[WP:BULLETLIST]].
Quotation Marks
edit- Double quotation marks is preferred in this case. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotation_marks.5BR.5D|style guide]].
- Punctuation goes outside quotation marks if it's not part of quoted material or direct speech. See [[WP:LQ]].
- Replaced curly style quotation marks with the recommended straight style. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotation_marks|style guide]].
Other
edit- Removed blank lines between items in a bulleted or numbered format. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Bulleted_and_numbered_lists|style guide]].
- Wikipedia prefers not to use '''and/or'''. See [[MOS:ANDOR]].
- Wikipedia prefers using either U.S. or US, not USA. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(abbreviations)#Widely_used_abbreviations_in_Wikipedia|style guide]].
- Removed extra spacing.
- En dashes preferred in this case. See [[MOS:DASH]].
Unit symbols
edit- Values and unit symbols are separated by a non-breaking space. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Unit_symbols|style guide]].
- Values and units used as compound adjectives are hyphenated only where the unit is given as a whole word as per [[WP:HYPHEN]].
- Wikipedia prefers use of word "number" or "No." than # symbol when referring to numbers or rankings. See [[MOS:NUMBERSIGN]].
- Wikipedia prefers "per cent" or "percent" than % symbol in this case. See [[MOS:PERCENT]].
Dates
edit- Dates in article body text should all have the same format. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Full_date_formatting|style guide]].
- Dates in article references should all have the same format. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Full_date_formatting|style guide]].
- Seasons are not the same everywhere in the world. Generally preferable not to use season names to denote a time of year. See [[WP:SEASON]].
Numbers
edit- Single-digit whole numbers from zero to nine are spelled out in words. See [[WP:ORDINAL]].
- Numbers greater than nine are commonly rendered in numerals. See [[WP:ORDINAL]].
- Comparable quantities should be all spelled out or all figures. See [[WP:ORDINAL]].
- Numbers that begin a sentence are spelled out. See [[WP:ORDINAL]].
- Usually better to spell out first instance of each unit names. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Unit_names_and_symbols|style guide]]. Feel free to revert if inappropriate.
Headings
edit- As per [[WP:SECTIONCAPS]] and [[WP:JOBTITLES]], sentence-style capitalization applied for section titles