Modules

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Copyright

Please note that we can't just take your word for getting permission to use copyrighted text - you need to go through the process outlined in WP:COPYREQ. However, it is not usually worth the trouble of doing this, especially for promotional material, as such copyrighted material often fails Wikipedia's policy of maintaining a neutral point of view. See WP:NPOV for details. All the best.

The Toolbox

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The Toolbox

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Discussions

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When there is a discussion on articles for such things as merge proposals or RfC's, at the end of the discussion you should close it with the following templates:

Discussions

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

{{discussion top}}

This is a closed and archived discussion.


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{{discussion bottom}}

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

You can learn more about discussions and achieving a consensus here.

Handy templates

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Shortcuts

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On WikiProject and Portal pages, you often need to establish a quick way to jump to the page without typing a long name on the search field. So instead of typing Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink, all you would need to type is WP:Food or WP:Drink; this is done by creating a redirect page. Once the shortcut has been created, you can put the {{shortcut}} template on the Project or Portal talk page.

Look on the right side of the section for an example →

Columns

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There are several ways to create columns on pages without going into wiki-code. Here are several templates that can be used to do this:

With {{Columns-list}}

<span id="With {{Columns-list}}"> {{Columns-list}} is one way of creating columns of bulleted lists. It is formatted like this:

{{Columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* This text appears in the first column.
* This text appears in the second column.
* This text appears in the third column.
}}

Will produce:

  • This text appears in the first column.
  • This text appears in the second column.
  • This text appears in the third column.

You can vary the number of columns by changing the number after the first pipe (|).

With {{col-begin}}

<span id="With {{col-begin}}"> {{Col-begin}} and its helpers {{col-break}} and {{col-end}} are one way of creating columns. They are formatted like this:

{{Col-begin}}
This text appears in the first column.
{{col-break}}
This text appears in the second column.
{{col-break}}
This text appears in the third column.
{{col-end}}

Will produce:

With {{Multicol}}

<span id="With {{Multicol}}">

{{Multicol}} and its helpers {{multicol-break}} and {{multicol-end}} are another way of creating columns. They are formatted like this:

{{Multicol}}
This text appears in the first column.
{{Multicol-break}}
This text appears in the second column.
{{Multicol-break}}
This text appears in the third column.
{{Multicol-end}}

Will produce:

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More tools

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Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.