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Useful tools & interesting reading
edit- Page Stalker ~ AFD votes
- {{subst:Wikipedia:Teahouse/Invitation|sign=~~~~}} Teahouse welcome
- Leave a {{teahouse talkback}} on user pages when questions answered.
- Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard
- List of Wikipedia controversies
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Tags and templates
editHow to add wikicommons, wikinews, wikisource, wikispecies and/or wiktionary boxes: | ||
{{commons category|Ferndale, California}} |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ferndale, California. | |
{{Commons|Main Page}} |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Main Page. | |
{{Wikinews|Main Page}} |
Wikinews has related news:
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{{Wikisource|Main Page}} |
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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{{Wikispecies|Main Page}} |
Wikispecies has information related to Main Page. | |
{{Wiktionary|Main Page}} |
Look up Main Page in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. | |
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How to add a reference improvement needed tag:
{{refimprove section|date=October 2013}} or {{refimprove section|date=October 2013}}
How to include very tiny images:
[[Image:Tournesol.png|43px|left|WikiThanks]]<!-- Template:WikiThanks -->
How to note an item which needs to be cited
{{Citation needed|{{subst:DATE}}}} or {{Citation needed|reason=reliable source needed for the whole sentence}}
More here Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
How to convert...
{{convert|−45|°F}} ~ {{convert|555|sqft|m2}} ~ {{convert|20|in|cm}} Use best units!
More here Template:Convert
How to note a missing coordinate
{{coord missing|Humboldt County, California}} ~ Use best units!
See Category:Humboldt County, California articles missing geocoordinate data for the list.
How to say NPOV needed
{{tl|POV-statement}}
How to ask for a photograph on article talk page
{{reqphoto|in=Humboldt County, California}}
See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Humboldt County, California for the list.
How to add disambiguation link
{{Other uses|Eureka (disambiguation)}}
How to request dmy dates:
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2013}}
[[Image:Information.svg|25px]]
How to say a page is an orphan (poor thing!)
{{Orphan|date=February 2013}}
Guidelines for cities/notable people
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Business & boosterism
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Welcome new users
{{subst:wm}} or {{subst:welcome}} or {{subst:welcome-anon}}
See Welcome templates for more
Bah, vandals
{{uw-vandalism2|ArticleName}}
for tags. Numbers 2 through 4 make progressively more intense comments.
Other warnings WP:WARN
Wikipedia policies and guidelines
editStyle and format
editImage Gallery Coding Styles
editGallery Format 1
{| |[[Image:John_Brooks_Felton_by_Stephen_W_Shaw.jpg|thumb|upright|alt= Portrait of John B. Felton| [[John_B._Felton|John B. Felton]], c. 1854 by Stephen W. Shaw]] |[[Image:Charles_C_Crocker_by_Stephen_W_Shaw.jpg|thumb|upright| alt=Portrait of Charles Crocker |[[Charles_Crocker|Charles Crocker]], c. 1872 by Stephen W. Shaw]] |}
Gallery Format 2
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John B. Felton, c. 1854 by Stephen W. Shaw
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Charles Crocker, c. 1872 by Stephen W. Shaw
<gallery> Image:John_Brooks_Felton_by_Stephen_W_Shaw.jpg| [[John_B._Felton|John B. Felton]], c. 1854 by Stephen W. Shaw Image:Charles_C_Crocker_by_Stephen_W_Shaw.jpg| [[Charles_Crocker|Charles Crocker]], c. 1872 by Stephen W. Shaw </gallery>
Citations
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{{rp|EXACT PAGE NUMBER}} after terminal Reference tags </ref> and <ref name = "name" />) If multiple pages from source are cited. | ||
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Tables & Cute Boxes
editHow's the soup? --[[User:John]] :It's great!! --[[User:Jane]] ::I made it myself! --[[User:John]] Let's move the discussion to [[Talk:Soup]]. --[[User:Jane]] :I tend to disagree. --[[User:George]] |
How's the soup? --John Let's move the discussion to Talk:Soup. --Jane
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Quotations
edit{{tl|Quotation}} or {{tl|Quote}} templates. Write <tt>{{quotation|Quoted passage from the article.}}</tt> to produce
Quoted passage from the article.
Wikiopoly!
editWikibreak | Third opinion $220 | Chance ? | Mediation $220 | Arbitration $240 | Jimbo Wales $200 | In the news $260 | On this day $260 | MediaWiki $150 | Did you know $280 | You are banned! |
RFA $200 | WIKIOPOLY | FPC $300 | ||||||||
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Deletion review $160 | Chance ? | |||||||||
AFD $140 | TFA $350 | |||||||||
Wikimedia Foundation $150 | Edit war (pay $100) | |||||||||
CSD $140 | Main Page $400 |
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BANNED! Just browsing | WikiProject Spam $120 | UAA $100 | Chance ? | AIV $100 | Admin cabal $200 | Teh Drahmaz (pay $200) | AN $60 | Community discussion | ANI $60 |
Biography
editEveryone has had to write an official biography at some point or another. Here's mine... Ellin Beltz (1956 - living) is an American writer. Her latest book Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World was published in hardcover September 2005, and in paperback September 2009, by Firefly Books in Toronto, Canada. Named for her godmother, Ellin Mackay Berlin, she had an "exotic" childhood and now lives in Ferndale, California after Chicago, New York and several other places. Since 1986, Ellin has researched the meaning of the scientific names of the reptiles and amphibians of North America, including the biographies of hundreds of people honored in the nomenclature and published it on her personal website: *The Names of Reptiles and Amphibians Explained. Many of these biographies have been widely copied on the web, many have made their way into Wikipedia over the years. Retired from university and college teaching of geology, biology and geography, she continues research and contribution to Wikipedia.