User:RickScott

Wikipedia generally

• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
  • Notability
    • People | Music | Athletes -- see also WP:NSPORTS2022
    • Places & Geographic features
  • WP:NPoV | Verifiability | WP:NOR
  • Citing sources | Non-english sources | Help:Referencing for beginners
    • Reliable sources | Perennial sources

• Manual of Style | also check the Directory of WikiProjects for subject-specific advice
• Help:Minor edit (aka "what is/isn't a minor edit")
• Redlinks (and when to create them)
• Stubs
• Translating: attribution guidelines

Specific topic guidelines

• Wikipedia:Contentious topics (topics which historically have attracted more disruptive edits than usual)
• Wikipedia:List of accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft/Guideline for inclusion criteria and format
• WikiProject Aviation: Style Guide
  • Airports: Accidents & Incidents

Named refs

Use a normal cite for the first occurrence, with the name attribute added to the ref tag. Then use an empty ref tag for subsequent calls:

<ref name="Cite2024">{{cite...}}</ref>

<ref name="Cite2024" />

New refs section if needed

== References ==
{{reflist}}

Escaping templates / magic vars

• To escape pipe chars within templates (eg the title param of a cite), use {{!}} or {{pipe}}.

Redirect

#REDIRECT [[Name of article]]

Interlanguage matters

Interlanguage links: easiest way is the {{ill}} template; it shows up as a redlink if the current language version doesn't exist, and a blue link if it does.

{{ill|Patrick Norman|fr}}
{{ill|Mikuni Pass|ja|三国峠 (群馬県・新潟県)}}

It's also possible to use a plain interwiki link, and this is what you want to use if you're using it in an edit summary. [[:fr:Patrick Norman]]

Interlanguage spans:

• {{langx}} for the first mention of a foreign-language term in an article
• {{lang}} for subsequent mentions or general use.

Don't use either inside {{cite}}s and the like; it can mess with the metadata. Besides, most of the cite templates have their own ways of dealing with languages anyway.

Interwiki links

Wikivoyage: the base template creates a wiki box; the inline one is suitable for use in a bulleted list.

{{Wikivoyage}}
{{Wikivoyage inline}}
{{Wikivoyage|<page on wv>|<rendered-as>}}

These almost always go in the 'External Links' section on Wikipedia.