Please select a Wikipedia article to improve. Once you have done so:
Copy this code to the bottom of the page: {{subst:2nd chance autoload|EXACT PAGE NAME}}.
Copy the name of the article into this template and into the edit summary.
Use the Show preview button to check that the article has been copied, then click Publish changes.
Go back to the edit tab to make your changes.
Alternatively, you can manually copy the article over:
Click the Edit tab at the top of your chosen article;
Copy the portion of the prose from that article that you will be proposing changes to. However:
do not copy the "infobox" from the start of the article (i.e., markup like this: {{infobox name|...}});
do not copy any image placement code (i.e., markup like this: [[File:Name.jpg|thumb|caption]]);
do not copy the page's categories from the bottom of the page (i.e., markup like this: [[Category:Name]]);
do not copy the stub tag (if there) from the bottom of the page (i.e., markup like this: {{Foo stub}});
Click edit at this page, and paste at the bottom under a new section header (like this: == [[Article title]] ==) the copied content but do not save yet;
Place your cursor in the edit summary box and paste there an edit summary in the following form which specifies the name of the article you copied from and links to it (this is required for mandatory copyright attribution): "Copied content from [[exact Name of Article]]; see that article's history for attribution."
You can now save the page. However, if your edits will include citations to reliable sources (which they should), add the following template to the end of your prose: {{reflist-talk}}. Once you have added the template, click Publish changes.
This template is designed to assist blocked users in copying over a page for use in a second chance. The article provided must exist in mainspace and not be a redirect. This template removes infoboxes, stub templates, categories and sections such as references, external links and see also. If the source page has wikitext syntax errors, this may not work.
A clickable button that goes to an edit window with an edit notice that prompts the user to use this template can be generated by the following code:
