User:Mlewan/wikihints

This page contains some things I keep forgetting how to do.

Access to journals

for people whose account qualifies.

Policies

One of my favourite guidelines of Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth.

Another can be found on the German Wikipedia.

Handling References

Some articles on Wikipedia sadly get deleted for the feable reason that they are WRONG.^[1]

Could you possibly ask for anything^[2] more^[2]?

Some images perhaps^[3]

How to request^{[citation needed]} references.^{[citation needed]}

Edits

How to update pictures.

How to add ISBN.

How to add a redirect: #redirect [[User:Mlewan]]

How to add a comment:

Ambiguity template to add to the top of a page: {{otheruses}}

Speedy delete template: {{deletebecause|reason.}}

Slow deletes: how to

How to link to Wiktionary: "hydro-"

How to add a language: use wikidata. There is a link to it under Tools in the left margin. You may need to merge two items.

Chinese templates

Template	zh-cp (Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin)
Looks like	Chinese: 你好; pinyin: nǐ hǎo
Code	{{zh\|c=你好 \|p=nǐ hǎo}}

Template	zh-stp (Simplified, Traditional, Hanyu Pinyin)
Looks like	simplified Chinese: 中国; traditional Chinese: 中國; pinyin: zhōng guó
Code	{{zh\|s=中国 \|t=中國 \|p=zhōng guó}}

Non proportional fonts

There are several ways to make a line appear with a non proportional font. One is to start the line with two or more spaces. One is to use the tag <pre>.

This text is surrounded by pre-tags.

Inter Language Links

Example:

Mikhail Voronov [ru]

Here the (not yet created) English article title is "Mikhail Voronov (author)".

The link title is "Mikhail Voronov".

The article on Russian WP is "Воронов,_Михаил_Алексеевич".

More info at Template:Interlanguage_link

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