User:Macrakis/tools
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Text formatting
- Non-breaking space: { }
- Zero-width space: {}
- Word joiner: {}
- Zero-width joiner: {}
- Soft hyphen: {}
- LTR {} and RTL {} marks
- {{strikethrough|text}} →
text - {{nowrap|don't break across lines}}
- Greek vowels: α ᾰ ᾱ ά ὰ ᾶ ἀ ἄ ε έ ὲ η ή ὴ ῆ ἠ ἡ ι ῐ ῑ ί ὶ ῖ ἰ ἱ ῖ̈ ο ό ὸ υ ῠ ῡ ύ ὺ ῦ ὐ ὑ ῦ̈ ω ώ ὼ ῶ ὠ ὡ
- Turkish (ğĞıIiİ); Arabic ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و
Edit summaries
- WP:REFERS: Use "is", not "refers to"
- MOS:FIRST: Article title does not need to appear verbatim in the lead
- WP:OBVIOUS: Lead should state essential information.
- WP:TERSE: Articles should use only necessary words
- WP:EXCESSDETAIL: Too much detail
- WP:COAT: Don't lose sight of the topic; don't hang irrelevant material onto article to make a point
- WP:OFFTOPIC: Stay on topic
- MOS:SINGLE: Format definitions as "dog" 'chien'
- MOS:WAW: Use italics to talk about the word
- WP:INTEGRITY: Don't misrepresent what the source says; cf. WP:HONEST
- WP:INTEGRITY: Don't change the text so it no longer reflects the footnoted source; cf. WP:HONEST
- WP:NOTDICT: WP discusses topics, not words
- WP:NOTHOWTO: WP is not a how-to manual
- WP:NOTRECIPE: don't include recipes
- WP:NOTTRAVEL: WP is not a travel guide
- WP:CONTENTFORK: one subject, one article
- WP:PEACOCK: avoid peacock terms
- WP:PUFFERY: avoid promotional language
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Original, authentic, and traditional: don't say "traditional"--be specific
- WP:RS: Use reliable sources
- WP:NOR: Don't rely on your personal knowledge and opinions; find good sources
- WP:PRIMARY: Primary sources generally need to be interpreted by secondary sources
- WP:SYNTH: Don't make inferences not supported by sources
- WP:FRINGE: Don't overemphasize far-from-mainstream views
- WP:SUBCAT: an article should be categorised as low in the category hierarchy as possible, without duplication in parent categories above it; WP:CAT: "articles should rarely be placed in both a given category and any of its sub- or parent (super-) categories"
- MOS:': WP uses straight rather than curly apostrophes and quotation marks (unfortunately!)
- WP:GLOSSES: Use single quotes 'x' for glossing
- WP:TITULAR: Avoid 'titular' and 'eponymous'
- WP:PRESERVE: Don't delete uncited content; improve it
- WP:SDAVOID: Avoid "former", "defunct", etc.
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