To leave a note for editors on the requester's talk page before beginning a copy-edit (optional):
{{GOCEstartce}}
To post a notice at the top of an article saying the article is undergoing a major copy-edit and requesting that no one edit the article while the notice is posted:
{{GOCEinuse}}
To post a notice near the top of an article's talk page indicating that a copy-edit has been completed (note that either of these is usually placed after all the various WikiProject templates, if there are any):
{{GOCE|user={{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|date={{subst:date}}}} This will add the copy-editor's user name and date automatically.
{{GOCE|user=Corinne|date=15 April 2017}}To add correct date manually, for example, if you are placing the template a day or two after you completed the copy-edit and you want the template to show the date you actually finished the copy-edit.
To leave a note on requester's talk page saying copy-edit has been completed:
{{GOCEtb|article = Name of article here|sign = ~~~~}}
To add, at the top of an article's talk page, the WikiProject banner shell (to group together all WikiProjects connected to the article) and the GOCE template saying a copy-edit has been completed, with the date completed and by whom it was completed:
{{WikiProject banner shell |
{{WikiProject template1}}
{{WikiProject template2}}
{{GOCE template}} i.e., the third or fourth template above that starts "GOCE user"
}}
To add WikiProject banner shell (and GOCE template) to the talk page of an article on a living person:
Note: The "listas=Last name, First name" of the subject of the article is only needed once among the banners at the top of the talk page.
Templates
To place a notice at the top of an article saying that an active copy-edit is underway:
{{GOCEinuse}}
{{In use}} – a generic in-use session
{{In use|time=~~~~~}} – generic in-use but showing in time/date, and last edit time/date
{{In use|30 minutes to fix the information in the History section|time=~~~~~}} – customize the message regarding your in-use intentions and duration. When you save an edit the timekeeper resets to the current time.
{{in use|section}} – to declare a section in-use session
Done {{done}} to place a green check mark to the left of something completed
Not done {{not done}} to place a red "X" to the left of something not completed, or not done
To format a quote so that it appears in green text, useful for quoting something in a discussion:
{{tq|Type quote here.}} "This is an example quote, optional quotation marks inside curly brackets." "This is an example quote, optional quotation marks outside." This is an example quote with no quotation marks. Usually used like this. The quote will appear in green. Optional quotation marks go inside the curly brackets if they are part of the quote, outside if they are not. Quotation marks are usually not used with this template. The green text makes it clear that it is a quote.
Not a template, but another way to highlight text, useful for highlighting text in a discussion. Select color from "Web colors" link below.:
<span style="color: purple">Text goes here.</span>
Here is an example with purple text: Text goes here..
To format a block quote that requires an attribution (that is, the person who said it). This particular example also includes a reference:
{{quote|Quote goes here|Attribution goes here}} {{quote|This doesn't have to be liberal versus pro-business debate.|Andrew Morgan, director<ref>http://www.this-is-a-dummy-ref.org</ref>}}
Note: To omit the attribution, remove the second pipe like this: {{quote|Quoted text[1]}}. If the 2nd pipe is removed then the reference will hang on the quoted portion instead of on the attributed portion. Multiple references may be used, and they may be of any WP approved style. Of course, a reference is not always necessary in a quote. In that case, just use: {{quote|Quoted text}} or {{quote|Quoted text|Attribution text}}
To format a block quote and keep the line break structure, poem or otherwise:
{{quote|quote=Put quoted text here without double quote marks here.|source=Put source of quote here}}
Be sure to leave the equals signs in place.
Here is an example:
{{quote|quote=<poem>Their names discover what their natures are,
More hard than stones, and yet not stones indeed.</poem>|source=I.i.181-2}}
How to create a diff from two adjacent edits
Go to Revision History, and find the edit.
Left-click on "Prev".
Look up at top of page at the URL. Toward the end there should be two numbers, something like this: revision&diff=695592676&oldid=695592296
Use this template, Type two curly brackets; type "diff", followed by a pipe; type the exact title of the page (no underline is needed). Next, from the URL, put the larger/higher number (representing the newer version) to the left (i.e. first) and the smaller/lower number (representing the older version) to the right (i.e. second). You can just highlight the sequence of numbers and "&oldid=" that appear near the end of the URL, click "Copy", then paste after the pipe that follows the page title, and then change "&oldid=" to a pipe.) A label (such as "this", "this edit", or "here") following a pipe is optional. Finally, type two closing curly brackets. Here is an example:
{{diff|User talk:Corinne|695573832|695552708|comparing a newer page to an older page by version numbers}}
Or you could just put one number after "prev" (from a URL in which you see prev&oldid=695552708): {{diff|User talk:Corinne|prev|695552708|Optional label here}}
Or you can use the template to compare any two nonadjacent page versions by taking one page version number from one nonadjacent page and one page version from another nonadjacent page.
To hat, or collapse, a section: {{collapse top|top title goes here|bg=}}
The material you want to hat (hide from view) goes here. (Can be a template.) {{collapse bottom}}
En-dash and em-dash templates
Click on each template link below for template documentation:
Line break: {{brk}} (replaces HTML tag <br> or identically functioning but more correct <br />)
Note: You cannot use a template, which is written with curly brackets, inside a reference that is in the "cite ref" template format (with curly brackets) or inside any other template such as the quote template, which also uses curly brackets. In that case, use for a no-break space and – or —.
En-dash and em-dash keyboard shortcuts (at least on a Mac)
En-dash: Alt+-
Em-dash: Alt+Shift+-
Optional soft hyphen{{shy}} Use this sparingly. Two places it might be appropriate to use are where there is a long word in a narrow column of text, or a long word in a caption. The main reason to use it is to avoid a very ragged (markedly in-and-out) right margin. The hyphen won't necessarily appear. It would only appear if the long word ended up at the end of a line. See the template documentation (type "Template:Shy" into the search bar) for how to use it. There are a few options there. See also MOS:SHY.
Converting units (height, weight, length, distance, speed, etc.) from one system to another:
Information about the conversion templates: {{convert}}
Wiktionary To link a word in an article to a Wiktionary definition, use this link at the word. For example, if you want to link the word "skill", put [[wikt:skill|skill]] or just [[wikt:skill|]]. Putting the pipe hides the "wikt:".
Earwig's Copyvio Detector Per 7&6=13, the one limitation of this tool is that it will also find sources that used/plagiarized Wikipedia articles, so just be aware of this when using the tool.
Link to IABotManagementConsole [1.1]: to see recent changes to an article Click Login. It will pick up your user name. Then, where it says "Run Bot", click on "fix a single page". Copy the article's title and click the add archives box. The process will then run – it can take a few minutes – and a list of changes will appear that have been added to the article. You have to refresh the article to see them in the reference section.
According to Checkingfax, 25% of our readers and editors are between the ages of 10 and 17; 50% between 17 and 35; 25% between 35 and 85. We need to keep that first group in mind as we edit articles.
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