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Code, refs, etc.

https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/blame/?style=new = search history on “View history”

Misplaced Pages:Simplified Manual of Style

WP:HD#title of query will go straight to it on the HD

WP:REFB – Referencing for beginners

e.g. of reference in wiki text:

<ref name="mailonline1">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2091056/Emeli-Sand--Meet-musics-new-darling-living-dream-come-true.html |title=Emeli Sandé: Meet music's new darling, who is living her 'dream come true' |work=Daily Mail|date=3 February 2012 |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref>

WP:MOS para 9 (quotes punctuation endings)

{{collapse top|title=Tangential discussion}} {{Collapse bottom}}
Intervening comments (no text removed)

WP:CHEATSHEET gives various formatting codes

WP:Footnotes

WP:LISTGAP (for line spacing) WP:Wiki markup - lists – definition lists

Non-native English speakers

Bypassing the cache and refreshing are the same thing! Ctr-F5

@Username: = to alert someone of a reply specifically for them when answering on the Help desk:


To compare pre-edit and final edit versions, press buttons for latest date and date just before started editing, and click “Compare”

YouTube - italics ¬_word_ strike through -word-

For numbered paras, # = 1.

    1. = 1.1

{{citation/clarification needed|date=June 2014}} must put in date!

  • Put these three after all other wikicode i.e. after closing </ref>

ALL UNDER “Misplaced Pages:Verifiability” section 5, Other issues

{{failed verification}} and date = if source doesn’t support the claim

{{verification needed}

{{irrelevant citation}} and date = if completely irrelevant

{{link language}} and date

Dead link = {{Dead link|date=June 2014}}

Replying with @ = {{reply to|Smith}}

Screenshot - Windows button + Fn + PrScr + Ctrl + V (paste) into doc

Originally: default, 80, 25 & screen 95%

Clearer: serif, 150, 60 & screen 140%

https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Terrorism#Acronyms_of_groups_with_al-Qaeda_in_name sp Al-Qaeda in Iraq

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