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Some reliable source links
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Useful templates:
- {{rp}} – referenced pages (for citations)
- {{tq}} – Inline talk quote – {{tqred}}
- {{slink}} – Section link – {{slinkno}}
- {{fco}} – Font color
- {{SAT}} – Source assessment table
- {{SA}} – Source assessment row
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Third opinion disputes update, Purge
- Talk:Pākehā § Citations needed This thread has become combative and repetitious. In a nutshell, I came across this article when I was researching for another article that referred to the term Pākehā. When I browsed to Pākehā § Etymology and history, I noticed that after the last sentence in the first paragraph, there was a call for a citation. So, assuming it was only the last sentence requiring a citation, I found a source and posted it, only for that to be reverted by User:Traumnovelle. This also, perhaps inadvertently, reverted a link I had added to patupaiarehe, for which I have nevertheless since provided a source from the Te Ara encyclopedia published by the New Zealand Government. During all this, I posted a query about that on the user's Talk page, which you can see copied from the archive into the Talk page of the Pākehā article. I subsequently found more reliable sources for other existing contributions in the paragraph, and have so far added 4 that are reliable, and two that are from a self-published writer, Jodie Radford, either or both of which I have said I would be happy to remove if other editors agree they harm the article. The problem I am having is lack of specificity, cordiality and collaborativeness in responses, and what now seems to be nitpicking over which direction rowers face. It is also apparent that Traumnovelle is not fully reading my painstakingly prepared and detailed responses before replying, leaving some questions hanging over several posts. I would welcome a third opinion as to whether at least the 4 citations I have provided from reliable sources, and the block quotes obtained from these sources adequately verify the contributions in the disputed paragraph, and perhaps an opinion on the quality of the discourse. Chrisdevelop (talk) 12:29, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- Talk:Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) § add. Disagreement about which order should show first to list the five elements of Wuxing (Chinese philosophy). 18:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
- Talk:Eremophila annosicaulis § Etymology Disagreement about the etymology of Eremophila annosicaulis.10:31, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
- Talk:Jonny Kim § removal of second-level gallery of synthesis. Disagreement about whether identifying ribbons and other visual information from an image constitutes WP:NOR. 05:09, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- Talk:Time formatting and storage bugs § Pros and cons of transcluding text from other articles Disagreement about the transclusion of text from other articles. 20:38, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- Talk:Randy Lennox. Disagreement about WP:PEACOCK and promotional tone of article. 23:09, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
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Please note, past this point, these tips are from 2005, and are probably way out of date.
Here are some tips for using Wikipedia, mostly based on my style of wikiing. If you see something here that you think can be done better or differently, don't hesitate to let me know.
Wikipedia scripts
Check out these scripts:
- Navigation Popups - Hover over internal links to see what lies on the other side
- Live Preview - Quick preview of your edits, without sending it to the server
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Browser choice
Use a tabbed browser. I use Mozilla Firefox, but there are others. Tabs (especially with gestures or mouse-over tab-switching) will allow you to easily have several wikipages open at once, making it easier to check links as you write articles, and similar tasks that are easier with many pages open at once. If you do choose Firefox, I recommend also installing the "All-in-One Gestures", "Tabbrowser Preferences", and "undoclosetab" extensions, they give many excellent options to mold the browser.
In addition, I highly recommend using a browser that allows you to set up keywords/shortcuts to URLs that take variables, Firefox lets you do this as well.
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Quick wiki bookmark shortcuts
Set up a keyword/shortcut to topics in wikipedia, this is one way of reducing your server load on wikipedia, and saving yourself some time by leaving old tabs that you need open.
In Firefox:
- Bookmark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s
- Set its keyword to "w" or "wiki" or something short.
- Type in the addressbar: 'w Some topic'
- You arrive at the page entitled 'Some topic' in wikipedia.
The %s in the URL is browser dependant, so if you use something else, check on it.
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Copyvio and fact checking
If you use a browser that allows keywords/shortcuts to URLs you can make a quick one to help perform fact-checks and copyvio-checks wikipedia.
In Firefox:
- Bookmark http://www.google.com/search?q=-wikipedia%20-dictionary%20-encyclopedia%20%s
- Set its keyword to 'check',
- In the address bar, type 'check "some text in Wikipedia I think is a copyvio"', it searches google for '-wikipedia -dictionary -encyclopedia "some stuff I think is a copyvio."'
- See your results, not containing any wikipedia or wikipedia mirror results!
The %s in the URL is browser dependant, so if you use something else, check on it.
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Firefox Wikipedia extension
There is also a Wikipedia extension for Mozilla Firefox, located here. It provides a toolbar and context menu for editing Wikipedia. I actually don't use it, but you might find it useful.
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