User:Floating Boat/Useful stuff
Just manual steps in case any script decides to fail (well, some of it is).
User warning templates
[edit]Vandalism
[edit]{{subst:Uw-vandal}} - warnings for vandalism. From 1 to 4 and 4im.
Templates
[edit]1st strike: 
Hello, I'm Floating Boat. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions because it didn't appear constructive. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!
2nd strike: Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.
3rd strike: 
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing.
4th strike: 
This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
For repeated undetected vandalism: This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
Personal attacks
[edit]{{subst:Uw-npa}} - warnings for personal attacks. From 1 to 4 and 4im.
Templates
[edit]1st strike: Hello, I'm Floating Boat. I noticed that you made a comment that didn't seem very civil, so it has been removed. Wikipedia needs people like you and me to collaborate, so it’s one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.
2nd strike: Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you.
3rd strike: Please stop attacking other editors. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
4th strike: This is your last warning. The next time you make personal attacks on other people, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on fellow editors.
For repeated undetected personal attacks: This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on other people again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people.
Neutral point of view
[edit]{{subst:Uw-npov}} - warnings for not adhering to NPOV. From 1 to 4.
Templates
[edit]1st strike: Hello, I'm Floating Boat. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.
2nd strike: Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you.
3rd strike: Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, you may be blocked from editing.
4th strike: This is your last warning. The next time you violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by inserting commentary or your personal analysis into an article, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
Advertising
[edit]{{subst:Uw-advert}} - warnings for editing promotionally. From 1 to 4 and 4im.
Templates
[edit]1st strike: Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
2nd strike: Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you.
3rd strike: Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing.
4th strike: This is your last warning. The next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
For repeated undetected promotion: This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
Spamming
[edit]{{subst:Uw-spam}} - warnings for spamming in external links. From 1 to 4 and 4im.
Templates
[edit]1st strike: Hello, I'm Floating Boat. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added, because to me it seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you.
2nd strike: Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.
3rd strike: Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
4th strike: This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.
For repeated undetected spamming: This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.
Blanking pages or sections
[edit]{{subst:Uw-delete}} - warnings for blanking articles or sections. From 1 to 4 and 4im.
Templates
[edit]1st strike: Hello, I'm Floating Boat. I noticed that you recently removed some content without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. The removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.
2nd strike: Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.
3rd strike: Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you.
4th strike: This is your last warning. The next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
For repeated undetected blanking: This is your only warning; if you remove or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
A guide to the three types of deletion
[edit]CSDing
[edit]- Tag the article with {{db-<criterion for deletion>}}. The criteria for speedy deletion are here.
- Notify the author with {{subst:db-reason-notice|page name|reason}}.
Also useful are the types of A7 deletion tags:
- {{db-person}} for a person
- {{db-band}} for a band
- {{db-inc}} for an organization
- {{db-web}} for Internet-related stuff
PRODding
[edit]- Add the {{subst:Proposed deletion|concern=reason for proposed deletion}} to the top of the main article page to nominate the article. Make sure to provide an edit summary that clearly indicates that the article has been proposed for deletion. Do not mark the edit as minor.
- Consider adding an {{Old prod full}} tag to the article's talk page. Category:Past proposed deletion candidates lists articles that have previously been proposed for deletion.
- The article's creator or other significant contributors should ideally be left a message at their talk page(s) informing them of the proposed article deletion, except for cases where contributors are no longer regarded as active editors on Wikipedia. This should be done by adding the {{Proposed deletion notify|''Name of Article''}} tag, or other appropriate text.
- Adapted from Wikipedia:Proposed deletion#Nominating.
AfDing
[edit]- Insert {{subst:afd1}} at the top of the article if it's been nommed for the first time. If it hasn't, use the template {{afdx}} and in a parameter type the number of times it would be nominated after you're done (so a second nom would make the template {{subst:afdx|2nd}}) Also use Nominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/name of article as your edit summary and don't mark the edit as minor.
- Place the text {{subst:afd2 | pg=PageName | cat=Category | text=Why the page should be deleted}} ~~~~ on the AfD page for the article. PageName is, well, the name of the page, and Category is the category the article is placed in (so if it's about a song, you use M for "media and music").
- Open the log page for today and post {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NominationName}} at the top, NominationName being the title of the AfD after Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion (if the article's named Foo, Foo should replace NominationName in the pg= parameter; if Foo's being nommed for the second time, Foo (2nd nomination) should replace NominationName in the pg= parameter). The edit summary for that should be Adding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/name of article
Deletion sorting
[edit]- Find an appropriate category or categories under which to sort the discussion.
- Once you find the page, add {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PageName}} to the list, noting the article name in the edit summary.
- You can add a notification to the discussion itself that it has been included using {{subst:delsort|<topic>|<signature>}}. Many of the those categories have watchers so it's an easy way to broadcast recently nominated articles. Courtesy of I JethroBT.
List of cats for AfDs
[edit]cat=M - Media and music
cat=O - Organisation, corporation, or product
cat=B - Biographical
cat=S - Society topics
cat=W - Web or Internet
cat=G - Games or sports
cat=T - Science and technology
cat=F - Fiction and the arts
cat=P - Places and transportation
cat=I - Indiscernible or unclassifiable topic
cat=U - Debate not yet sorted
How to relist an AfD
[edit]Go to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/old date → edit → cut {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/whatever's up for deletion}} from the page → save → paste into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/current date → save. Courtesy of Fuhghettaboutit. Note that if the AfD's been relisted before, the hidden text <!--Relisted--> will be after the transcluded AfD.
Closing an AfD
[edit]To process an AFD debate listed on a day page containing debates old enough to be closed:
- If it may take significant time to assess the debate and/or perform the closing edits, consider letting others know that you are in assessing the discussion by adding
{{AfDh}}to the very top of the page and{{AfDb}}to the very bottom of the page. Alternatively,{{Closing}}) can be added to the very top of the page. - Determine, using the guidelines set forth at Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators, if there is a consensus to delete the article, and if the associated talk or sub-pages should also be deleted.
- Close the deletion discussion by doing the following:
| {{subst:Afd top}} '''RESULT'''. ~~~~ | ← Add this line at the very top of the page, with RESULT in bold. |
| ===[[Header]]=== | ← Leave this line alone. |
| ← Remove the line containing {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}}. | |
| DISCUSSION | ← Body of the discussion stays unchanged |
| {{subst:Afd bottom}} | ← Add bottom template |
- If additional explanation is needed as to why you have closed a deletion discussion as a certain result, add additional comments immediately after '''RESULT'''. on the first line.
- Save the page with an edit summary such as "Closing AfD, result was ..."
The right way to add an {{unsigned}} template
[edit]{{subst:unsigned|username|hh:mm, day month year (UTC)}}
- The clock must be in 24-hour time and the day must be a cardinal number.
- Go back 4 hours to get UTC time (for me only).
Determining gender
[edit]{{gender:<username>|This user is a male.|This user is a female.|This user has not defined their gender.}} Stolen from PrimeHunter at the Help Desk.