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Shinkolobwe was simply the first name non rejected by Wikipedia during the registration procedure of a new user.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 1 month and 9 days.




This user knows that his user page is a mess, and is sorry for that.

Sorry, I used my user page to personally store tips and tricks to become acquainted with editing Wikipedia, so this page is terribly messy and has to be considered as a sandbox. For discussions, please use my Talk page.

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Go to: User:Shinkolobwe/Tabs page to setup the user tabs
Attention to the critical position of the tags <noinclude></noinclude> in the list!

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Table of Contents

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Translation

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Wikimedia Toolforge: Tools wmflabs

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Wikimedia Toolforge

XTools

Template translator

Category suggester

Catanalysis

PetScan

Category redirects

Reverse Category tree

CrossCats

CSV → Wikitable

Tab2Wiki

Flickr-to-Commons

Earwig's Copyvio Detector

Earwig's Copyvios.toolforge

Editing tools

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Following tools can correct several problems:

Reference tools

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Home: Wikipedia:RefToolbar

Useful tips and tricks: Use Reflist along with the tags <ref name="" /> to declutter the body text from all the references codes and to make the page text much more readable and accessible {{Reflist|30em|refs= <ref name=""></ref> <ref name=""></ref>}}. So, all references codes are only stored in the reference list tag Reflist at the end of the page as most reference manager programs do. Then, the body text only contains the tags <ref name="" /> and is more easy to read. Fortuitously found in Thermokarst on 2020-09-19. :-)

Help:Using the Wayback Machine

Help:List-defined references

Help:Citation tools

Wikipedia:Citing sources

Wikipedia talk:Tools#Google Book cite no longer working?

https://citer.toolforge.org/

https://citation.crosscite.org/

T DOI Wikipedia reference generator

T Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books

User:Zhaofeng Li author of CiteGen Javascript

User:Zhaofeng Li/CiteGen

WebRef Homepage

Wikipedia:reFill: reFill (formerly Reflinks) is a tool that expands bare URL references semi-automatically, hosted on Toolforge.

Refill to convert an url address in a Cite Web template

User:Dispenser/Reflinks to complete rotlinks

https://copyvios.toolforge.org/

List-defined references (LDR)

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How to declutter the page from the long references directly embedded in the text body. See the Help: 

{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="name1">Content</ref>
<ref name="name2">Content</ref>
<ref name="name...n">Content</ref>
}}

or, alternatively, 

<references>
<ref name="name1">Content</ref>
<ref name="name2">Content</ref>
<ref name="name...n">Content</ref>
</references>

Help:List-defined_references#Converting

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Main page: Help:Converting between references formats

Reference styles may be converted from or to list-defined references, following the same rules for other major changes to citation style, at WP:CITEVAR. User:PleaseStand/segregate-refs.js has an option to assist conversion.

Open or paying access articles

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Wikipedia:OABOT
|doi-access=free
|url-access=subscription

Multiple non-breaking spaces

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  • Template:Spaces :
    • Un long espace vide ++{{Spaces|15}}++.
    • Un long espace vide ++               ++.

Non breaking hyphen

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The character used is U+2011 ‑ NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

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See also: Template:Glossary link internal

The template {{glossary link}} and its variant {{glossary link internal}} ({{gli}} for short) are templates for creating structured links to particular entries in topical glossaries.

Diff

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See also: Template:Diff

{{Diff | page title | diff | oldid | labelling text | diffonly=yes}}

{{Diff | page title | prev | oldid | labelling text}}: simplest and most often used form of the Template:Diff

See also: Help:Diff § Internal links

There is several ways to indicate a difference between revisions for a discussion on a Talk page or to add a comment in an edit summary:

By simply copying the URL of the Diff page in between square brackets [ ] as, e.g.:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PAGETITLE&oldid=12345678 See here]

Or, better and shorter using wiki codes:

  • Wikilink also usable in edit summary:
[[Special:Diff/oldid number/diff number|text]],
without explicitly mentioning the name of the page because the two numbers "oldid" and "diff" are sufficient to identify without ambiguity the Diff in the Wikipedia database. Only the numbers must be indicated without explaining text with "oldid" or "diff" labels
The parameter /oldid number/ allows to compare a given version of the page with a more ancient one not immediately consecutive (i.e., with at least one page in between them, or more). The /oldid number/ is facultative. When the /oldid number/ is omitted, the /diff parameter is sufficient and returns only the difference with the previous page immediately preceding the modification one wishes to indicate
The most concise and minimalist Diff to be included in an Edit Summary to refer to a given change is thus:
[[Special:Diff/diff number|here]]
  • Template {{Diff}} only usable in Discussion pages, because templates recognisable by their double curved brackets {{...|...}} are not active in the Edit summary
{{Diff|page name|diff|oldid|text}} with the same order of parameters diff|oldid than in the URL (https://...) of the Diff page
or with:
{{Subst:URL to diff|url=}} with an automatic substitution of the link parameters:
{{Subst:URL to diff|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=100000001&oldid=123456789|label=relevant text}}
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|url-status=dead
{{dead link|date=July 2021}}

Category:Science citation templates

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[[Category:Science citation templates]]

Template:Mvar for mathematical variables in a text

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See Template:Mvar, {{mvar|text}} to render text in italic.
Mvar template to display mathematical variables in italic and math format in line in the text. {{mvar|x}} displays as x. Better than to use<math>x</math> wich renders as , slightly bolder.

See also Template:Math for inline, non-complex formulas as an alternative to using the <math>...</math> tag pair.

Distinguish and For templates

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{{Distinguish|text = [[Hans Adolf Krebs]], the biochemist who discovered the [[citric acid cycle]]}}

Not to be confused with Hans Adolf Krebs, the biochemist who discovered the citric acid cycle.

{{For|vitamin C|ascorbic acid}}

For vitamin C, see ascorbic acid.

SVG tools

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Chemistry tools

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How to urgently report quickly evolving and massive vandalism

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To urgently report obvious, quickly evolving, and persistent massive vandalism or spam on multiple pages and to see if an active vandal has already been identified, use the following page:
Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism
This page is continuously refreshed by a bot and only displays current on-going obvious and persistent vandalism not yet blocked. Once the vandal has been blocked, the request for blocking disappears from the active living-list. Do not abuse of this page: it is restricted to emergency calls for blocking fast evolving vandalism, not for minor or occasional, non-persistent, vandalism.

Wikipedia languages

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Babel user information
fr-N Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français.
en-5 This user has professional knowledge of English.
nl-5 Deze gebruiker heeft professionele kennis van het Nederlands.
Users by language

Wikipedia Tools

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Tools to correct bug problems on Wikipedia:

Template:Start tab

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Reply with a notification to another user

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Syntax shown with "pre" tags: 

{{Ping|username}}
{{Re|username}}
{{reply to|User1|User2|User3}}

{{notif|username}}
{{Bonjour|username}}
{{Merci|username}}

Syntax shown with "nowiki" tags:
{{Ping|username}} {{Re|username}} {{reply to|User1|User2|User3}} {{notif|username}} {{Bonjour|username}} {{Merci|username}}

Effective results:
@Username:
@Username:
Modèle:Bonjour [fr] (French WP)
Modèle:Merci [fr] (French WP)

Outdent template

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Useful in a long discussion on a talk page:

{{outdent}}
{{od|::::}}

Hidden text in figure caption

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Use the template hidden:
{{hidden|detail|text to hide or to display alternatively}}

Abbreviation and tooltip

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Use the template abbr:
{{abbr|VESA|Video Electronics Standards Association}}
e.g.: VESA without wikilink

Use the template abbrlink:
{{abbrlink|VESA|Video Electronics Standards Association}}
e.g.: VESATooltip Video Electronics Standards Association to link to the corresponding page

Which is the equivalent to:
[[Video Electronics Standards Association|{{abbr|VESA|Video Electronics Standards Association}}]]

It is always more prudent to embed a template in the right part of a wiki link
[[Page target name|{{template|displayed name}}]]
than to incorporate a link inside a template:
{{template|[[Page target name|displayed name]]}}

The template abbr is reserved to abbreviation while the template tooltip is required for more explanations about a longer piece of text and avoids breaking down W3C rules:

So, for more explanations, use the template tooltip:
{{tooltip|IPoTB|Internet Protocol over Thunderbolt Bridge}}
e.g.: IPoTB

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For the See also sections:

  • {{Annotated link|Carbon sequestration}}
  • {{subst:AnnotatedListOfLinks|Bracketing the bulleted list of targeted links to be substituted}}

Template for chemical formula

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Very useful and simple to use, see the two variants:

Template:Chem
{{chem|2 NaOH + SiO2 -> Na2SiO3 + H2O}}
2 NaOH + SiO2 -> Na2SiO3 + H2O

Template:Chem2: much simpler and easier to correctly format chemical reactions!

{{chem2|chemical reaction simply typed in plain text}}

{{chem2|2 NaOH + SiO2 -> Na2SiO3 + H2O}}
2 NaOH + SiO2 → Na2SiO3 + H2O

It does the same job than <chem></chem> without generating a larger gif picture:
<chem>2 NaOH + SiO2 -> Na2SiO3 + H2O</chem>


General recommendation: adapt and stick to the current main usage on the visited page

Interwiki

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See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Interwiki_links
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Interwiki_links
Interwiki_links

Interwiki links can take the form of:

[[wiktionary:article]] which appears as: wiktionary:article

The pipe symbol suppresses the prefix:

[[wiktionary:article|]] → article

Adding text after the pipe allows different text:

[[wiktionary:article|Any text]] → Any text

To avoid reader confusion, inline interlanguage, or interwiki, linking within an article's body text is generally discouraged. Exceptions: Wiktionary and Wikisource entries may be linked inline (e.g. to an unusual word or the text of a document being discussed), and {{Interlanguage link}} template may be helpful to show a red link accompanied by an interlanguage link if no article exists in English Wikipedia.

wikimedia:Edit Review Improvements/New filters for edit review

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Help:Interlanguage links

Example of the Interlanguage link (ill) template: 

{{ill|Nino_Ferrari (engineer)|lt=Nino Ferrari|it|Nino Ferrari (ingegnere)}}

Nino Ferrari [it]

Inline links (links in the text of the article)

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When the English Wikipedia doesn't have an article, the links to it show up as red links. We don't have an article on Hanning Schröder (it shows up as a red link), but the German Wikipedia does. It is possible to:

  1. Write [[:de:Hanning Schröder|Hanning Schröder]] to link directly to the German version; the link shows up as "Hanning Schröder"
  2. Write [[Hanning Schröder]] ([[:de:Hanning Schröder|de]]) to give both a redlinked English link and a German blue link: "Hanning Schröder (de)"
  3. Use the template {{interlanguage link}} which does the same thing as above, but hides the German link if the English redlink turns blue. By writing {{interlanguage link|Hanning Schröder|de}} we get: "Hanning Schröder".

The first option is not preferred because it hides the fact that the English Wikipedia is missing that article, and because it can be very unexpected for someone who doesn't speak German to suddenly be sent to a German page.

Standard templates in use within Wikipedia

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WP:TEMPLATE and various other shortcuts provides an index for a wide range of standard templates in use within Wikipedia. It also gives an overview of what subjects are covered within each heading.. For information on what templates are and how the template namespace is intended to be used, please see Wikipedia:Template namespace.
Shortcuts





Difference between Citation and References List or Notes

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  • Citation are used in-line in the text to refer to a given reference, while;
  • References list or Notes are used at the end of the page to compile a list with all the references cited in the text.


General information on source citation

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For general information on source citation in Wikipedia, see WP:CITE.

Shortcut




Citation template

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Citation cleanup templates are listed here.

Shortcuts

Below are examples of how to use templates to cite books, encyclopedias, journals, theses, papers, websites, comic strips, videos, and editorial comics. See also Category:Citation templates. If there is a possibility that Harvard referencing will be used in the article in future, consider using the Citation templates (shown second in relation to each source) for additional linking functionality with Template:Harvard citation. This linking from cite to reference does not work with the other templates shown below.

For requiring extra in line citations or reference, use the following templates:

{{More footnotes needed|date=October 2020}} if there is insufficient in line citations

{{More citations needed|date=October 2020}} if there is insufficient references

Reference name (naming a ref tag so it can be used more than once)

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To give a footnote a unique identifier, use <ref name="name"> ... </ref>. You can then refer to the same footnote again by using a ref tag with the same name like <ref name="name" />. The name cannot be a number, or the extension will return an error.


Wikipedia:Footnotes#Reference_name_.28naming_a_ref_tag_so_it_can_be_used_more_than_once.29

Template:Reflist

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See: Template:Reflist

For list-defined grouped references, use |refs=.

Within the references list: 

{{Reflist|group="groupname"|refs=
<ref name="name1">content1</ref>
<ref name="name2">content2</ref>
}}

These references should be invoked as citation in the body text as usual: 

<ref name="name1" /><ref name="name2" />
{{Reflist|group="groupname"|refs=

It is very useful to declutter the page code from all the codes of the references and to store all the references together in a reference list at the end of the page: "References" list or "Further reading" list.

Template:Harvard citation documentation

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Template:Harvard citation documentation

Wikipedia:Harvard referencing

Wikipedia:Parenthetical referencing

Wikipedia:Citing sources

Template:Ref harvard

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For making references list at the end of the page Template:Ref harvard

Template:Ref

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For making references list at the end of the page Template:Ref

{{reflist|refs=}}

Template:Note

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For making notes list at the end of the page: Template:Note

Template:Wikiref

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For making notes list at the end of the page: Template:Wikiref


Citation templates

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Category:Citation_templates

Template:Cite book

Template:Cite journal

Template:Cite journal/doc 

Rarely used but useful fields:
| format    = pdf
| quote     =
| ref       = Harv
| separator =

Template:Cite news

Template:Cite web

Template:Google scholar cite for talk pages only !!!

Template:Cite doi

To automatically generate a citation by a bot.
This citation is centrally stored and managed on WP and available to all contributors. 

{{Cite doi|doi of your source}}

When the bot generates the citation and adds it into the central citation template category, the citation is not directly inserted in the page, but rather transcluded in the page. This allows a central management of the automatically generated reference and avoid to clutter the page with a full reference. The reference remains editable with a small button appearing in the references list.

To find a reference, look at the category: 

[[Category:Cite_doi_templates]]

User:Citation bot

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Wikipedia:RefToolbar: with a button in the edit toolbar

User:Citation bot, used to correct references

User:Citation bot/use

The Wikipedia citation bot: activation via a web page

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser: AWB, an external program to do semi-automated editing

Reference tool

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Universal reference formatter

Citation template generator 

http://toolserver.org/~holek/cite-gen/index.php?citelang=en&s[append-author-link]=1&s[append-newlines]=1&s[add-references]=1&s[add-list]=1&template=monobook&scriptlang=en

User:CitationTool

User:Smith609/RefTool, used to make references

Script stored in User:username/monobook.js

User:Smith609/Scopus

If you use Scopus, you can add a link to each search result that will translate it into a pre-filled {{citation}}: Empty citation (help) template. That means an end to copying and pasting details into Wikipedia!

Template:Google scholar cite

Digital Object Identifier

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Wikipedia:DOI

Wikipedia:Footnotes

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Wikipedia:Footnotes

Extension:Cite/Cite.php

Extension:Cite


WikiProject Resource Exchange

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange

Template:Excerpt for transclusion

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Refimprove template

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No footnotes template

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More footnotes template

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Template:Chembox new for standard chemicals

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Available subst templates: type chembox subst or chembox subst small 

in the document and press save to get the empty box):

   * {{chembox subst}} or {{chembox subst small}} for standard chemicals
   * {{chembox subst medium}}, a bit more information
   * {{chembox subst full}} or {{chembox subst large}}, a complete list


Below the chembox new. Notes:

  • Parameters work only in their own section.
  • When a parameter is not needed, please leave it empty, when a parameter is wrong, just clear its contents.
  • When a section is really not needed, delete the whole section.

For more information, see template:chembox.

Shinkolobwe
Identifiers
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

Scientist Biography

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Template:Infobox scientist


Insertion of a page in another one with a simple link

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Transclusion


WP:TRANS

Picture of the Day

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Orion in The Book of Fixed Stars
The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD.Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Archive – More featured pictures...


The Book of Fixed Stars


H
2SO
4+ CaCO
3→ CaSO
4+ H
2CO
3

External media – External images

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Template:External media 

{{ external media
| align  = right
| width  = 300px
| image1 =[http://link-to-the-image.jpg Title]
}}

Template:Linktext

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{{Linktext|This| is| a| test}}

Link word by word to Wikidictionary.

This is a test

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Example: 

[[en:St. Peter's Cathedral]] (pre)


en:St. Peter's Cathedral (code)
[[en:St. Peter's Cathedral]] (nowiki)
en:St. Peter's Cathedral
[[:de:Melamin|Melamin]] (nowiki)
Melamin 

[[fr:Forrières|Forrières]]


Hotcat

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Use Wikipedia:HOTCAT to add a JS to manage categories.

Use of colour for fonts and text background

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blue writing

blue writing

Signature

Do not forget the semi-colon as properties separator. Properties are in between two quotes ""

Notes in line Citation

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How to cite and insert a note?[note 1]

Notes List

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  1. ^ With the ref and references tags use the argument group = "note" to insert an in line citation or a list of notes at the end of the text

Correct Sort in category

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pour bien se retrouver dans la catégorie E et non pas E accent aigu

Include a page in another one

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See: Wikipedia:Transclusion

Deadend page

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Category conventions

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How to ask to move a protected page?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Editprotected

Wikipedia:Graphic Lab

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Wikipedia:GL/MAP

Wikipedia:Graphic Lab

Wikipedia:Tools

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Wikipedia:Text editor support

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Wikipedia:Text editor support

Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups

Anti-vandalism tool

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Wikipedia:Twinkle
Wikipedia:RedWarn (currently proposed to be renamed in Wikipedia:Ultraviolet, WP:UV)

Autoarchive tool

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User:MiszaBot III is a bot for autoarchiving talk pages

mindat.org is on Commons

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Robert_Lavinsky

I just went on Commons and saw that Robert Lavinsky of mindat.org donated his entire database of ~29,000 pictures to Wikimedia commons. You can read about it at Commons:Commons:Robert Lavinsky. Since you did much of the work on the mineral articles, I thought you might be interested. Awickert (talk) 01:45, 17 March 2010 (UTC)


Main article

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{{main|Prestressed concrete}}

WikiProject Geology

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{{WikiProject Geology
|class=B
|importance=High
|attention=
|needs-infobox= 
|peer-review= 
|old-peer-review= 
}}

Template Citation needed: arguments

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{{Citation needed
|reason=article do not cite references either
|date=August 2008}}

Template for photo request

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Useful tag to request photographs. 

{{reqphoto|geology}}

{{reqphoto|mineralogy}}

Magnus Toys

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http://toolserver.org/~magnus/index.html

Conversion of Excel table to wiki table

Image uploading onto Commons:

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php

Commons:Software

Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files

Huggle

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Wikipedia:Huggle/Manual: an antivandalism tool

Flinfo

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The easy way to upload to Wikimedia Commons

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php

http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo.php


WikiProject Rocks and minerals

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Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rocks_and_minerals

User:Jean-Pol_GRANDMONT

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An excellent Belgian photograph on the Commons User:Jean-Pol_GRANDMONT

Template Messages

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Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace

Expand-section

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Translation

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{{Expand French|topic=geo|date=August 2010}}

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