User:Wikiuser100/Format tips

Shortcuts and stuff

User stats: https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Wikiuser100&project=en.wikipedia.org

@Username: Pings others in their Notifications you've mentioned them somewhere. Also, for replies: @Username:

creates Z-shaped zipline restarting text replies in Talk at left margin.

{{Distinguish2| [[Hulk (medieval ship type)]], an early European coastal craft}} = Distinguish hatnote allowing text entry section

❤ = heart symbol

Done = Checkmark

Admins: User:RegentsPark

Stacking images:

File:X File:X

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Soft redirect (shows page being redirected to, gives access to original Talk page:

redirect Spuyten Duyvil Creek#Harlem River Ship Canal Hard targeted redirect

{{merged to}} On Talk page of merged page. Doesn't merge Talk pages or their histories, just says where page went.

[[Image:|thumb|<center>Boche Buster's crew posing with the gun</center>]] = Centering caption in thumbnail image

Columns (See also) = Dividing list of entries into 2 columns

<U>text</U> Offsets text in highlight box

See example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:E-boat&action=edit&section=11

Note need to indent one space on left to create box, no box without it.

Embedding images/maps in footnotes/notes: ^[1]

Help:Gallery tag Centering images (but not captions) in a Gallery:

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Hatnotes ^[vague] ^{[further explanation needed]}

Wikipedia hatnote gives: For a broader coverage related to this topic, see Hiking.

Wikipedia hatnote gives: For a broader coverage related to camping, see Hiking.

Note how trailing “amping” modifies link to Hiking, rather than adding Camping before it; ortherwise, one would expect it to have to be before Hiking, with perhaps two || bars to create the modified language rather than adding “Camping and Hiking”.

||s don’t appear to work with the {{broader}} template

select the text that needs clarifying.^[clarify]

Different reference format

See Jeanne LaDuke article for different reference format, with very abbreviated citations inline and full listing of all citations under Ref heading at end of article. Wikiuser100 (talk) 10:47, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

References

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Specifying "foot" instead of "feet"

0-foot (0 m)

Attribution of copied or relocated content

Attribution: prose in this section was relocated from runabout (boat) on April 5, 2016. Please see the history of that page for attribution.

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