User:Paulmnguyen/Toolbox

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This page serves as my personal toolbox of editing tools in Wikipedia.

To do

GOCE Requests

•  Later 5ESS switch particularly Architecture section. See its talk page. 00:27, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
• GNOME push to GA. 01:19, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
• Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia needs ce & refimprove. 00:06, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Completed or otherwise no longer active items

File manager - resume copyedit (03:31, 22 August 2010 (UTC))  Completed 12:25, 26 August 2010 (UTC) St. Cecilia Academy (Nashville, Tennessee) - take a look at this rev 03:46, 8 September 2010 (UTC)  Completed add better links to characterize the institution rather than include generic content, as previous editor demonstrated. 14:17, 10 September 2010 (UTC)  Completed Howrah Rajdhani for copyedit drive 18:08, 10 September 2010 (UTC); completed 00:35, 11 September 2010 (UTC) CSULB needs some copyedit and updates. 00:51, 13 September 2010 (UTC)  Completed 02:12, 18 September 2010 (UTC) Miwins dice is probably not going to be touched by anyone else. Best I can do is correct what is there and request expert, removing grammar tag as gocereviewed. 01:43, 15 September 2010 (UTC)  Completed Fixed the whole thing up! 02:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC) Hugo von Hohenlandenberg from German - not much good if I need a reference to resolve awkward English... but he's a Catholic Bishop, so I'll give it a try. 01:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC)  Completed A translator got right back to me, so we're golden. 01:47, 17 September 2010 (UTC) Imperial Glory a video game; short article. Probably someone else will pick it up next week some time. 01:46, 15 September 2010 (UTC)  Completed 13:20, 16 September 2010 (UTC) Liberalism in Germany for copyedit - it's relatively short. 12:21, 18 September 2010 (UTC) GOCEreviewed 14:47, 19 September 2010 (UTC) Miracles of Gautama Buddha for copyedit - also relatively short. 02:44, 19 September 2010 (UTC) somebody else did it. 14:47, 19 September 2010 (UTC) IT Baseline Protection Catalogs a nice article to copyedit. 19:57, 19 September 2010 (UTC)  Completed 02:08, 23 September 2010 (UTC) Raj Darbhanga a big fish for copyedit. 02:44, 19 September 2010 (UTC) Diannaa Semantic publishing a nice one too. 20:08, 19 September 2010 (UTC) lfstevens Climate of Azerbaijan for copyedit. 02:09, 24 September 2010 (UTC) macwhiz Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linux#Damn Vulnerable Linux is redlink. Anybody care to create stub? 01:19, 1 November 2010 (UTC) Template:inuse discussion about categorization and blocking bots. 02:44, 19 September 2010 (UTC) 13:52, 30 November 2010 (UTC). I'm over it.

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Tools

Template messages

• Wikipedia:Template_messages
  • Cleanup
    • {{Copyedit}}, {{Copyedit-section}}
    • {{Confusing}}, {{Unclear section}}
    • {{Expert-subject}}, {{Expert-verify}}
  • Sources of articles
    • {{Unreferenced}}, {{Unreferenced section}}
    • {{Refimprove}}, {{Refimprovesect}}
  • {{Template:Userspace draft}}, {{Template:New unreviewed article}}, Wikipedia:Requests_for_feedback
  • {{Template:inuse}}, {{Template:hangon}}
• Image with comment templates
  • {{Template:completed}}, {{Template:working}}, {{Template:later}}, {{Template:done}}, {{Template:Tobedone}}, {{Template:Warnsign}}, {{Template:Tick}}, {{Template:Thank you}}
• Special
  • {{Template:db-userreq}} to delete my userpages.

Wikicodes

I keep these in my browser (Opera) as notes that I can clip onto any page whenever needed.

My "In use" template for GOCE

{{In use 
 |spelling, grammar, and encyclopedic style by [[User talk:Paulmnguyen|Paul M. Nguyen]]
 of the [[WP:GOCE|Guild of Copy Editors]]
 |time=~~~~~}}

GOCE tag

{{GOCE
 |user=Paulmnguyen
 |date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} }}
 

GOCEreviewed tag

{{GOCEreviewed
 |user=Paulmnguyen
 |date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
 |issues=asdf}}
 

Guidelines and advice

1. Wikipedia:Five_pillars
2. Editing
   1. Annotated Article
   2. Bold, Revert, Discuss Cycle
      1. Be Bold
      2. Wikipedia:Consensus
3. Refining
   1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
   2. Wikipedia:Basic copyediting
   3. Wikipedia:Article development

Self-help writing tutorials:

• Exercises in weeding out fluff from article text
• Advanced editing exercises
• Spot the ambiguity
• Build your linking skills
• Using hyphens and dashes
• Copy-editing essentials, part of the Military History Academy

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Junk drawer

• Why Ecumenism Fails: Taking Theological Differences Seriously