User:Meredyth

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Memory prompts[edit]

The Special:Mypage and Special:Mytalk special pages

Special:Mypage/Sandpit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Meredyth/Sandpit

Local sites[edit]

Portal:Australia

Portal:Australian Capital Territory

Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia

Wikipedia:Community portal

Style guide links[edit]

WP:WAF - Writing about Fiction style guide
WP:BETTER - Guide to writing better articles
WP:LEAD - Lead section
WP:REF - citations
WP:CIT - citation templates
Help:Footnotes
WP:HOWTO - list of style manual and how to's
WP:VP - news
WP:STYLE - how to for formatting
WP:MOSDAB - style for disambiguation pages
WP:MOSNUM - style for numbers and dates
WP:CSD - speedy deletion request.
WP:MERGE - merging article template
Wikipedia:Disambiguation - styles for Hatnotes (i.e. notes for disambiguation)

Can do this too ...[edit]

to request deletion of pages I created, use ... 'db-author' inside template (double curly brackets) ...

create draft categories ... Cut from TEAPOT

"are category sections not allowed in sandboxes, and if not, why not? Header pretty much sums it up. cheers Tarkiwi25 (talk) 00:42, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

You'll find advice at WP:Categorization#User pages. - David Biddulph (talk) 07:37, 18 August 2019 (UTC) @Tarkiwi25: In a word, no. I'm assuming you're drafting an article in your sandbox and want to be ready wuth the right categories for when it goes into mainspace? The last thing we want is for multiple, half-finished drafts appearing in Category listings (I've made that mistakes in the past). But you can inactivate the categorisation by adding a colon immediately after the opening pair of square brackets Category:New Zealand. This keeps the link working, but doesnt include your page. Once live, just delete the colons. Nick Moyes (talk) 09:41, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

You can also use the draft categories template, which makes the categories show up on the page like they normally would, but prevents the draft from appearing in the category listings. You can do that by copying and pasting this and putting it at the end of your article:

Hope this helps. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 17:59, 18 August 2019 (UTC)"

To do[edit]

Disambiguation

- Endeavour
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links

Factual correction/extension GoTo: Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification

Biographies[edit]

Articles[edit]

Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award

Quick link to info listing[edit]

Wikipedia:Department directory - directory of wiki help links
Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do/Literature - Australian project to do list
Wikipedia:New articles (Australia) - list of new articles

Categories[edit]

Category:WikiProject Australian literature participants

Did you know?[edit]

Tip of the day...

Redirects

A redirect is a page that has the sole purpose to automatically redirect readers to a differently named page; to take the reader where they really wanted to go. Redirects allow a topic to have more than one title. Redirects are used for synonyms, abbreviations (initialisms), acronyms, accented terms (diacritics), misspellings, typos, nicknames (pseudonyms), scientific names, etc.

To create a redirect for the term "Oof":

Type Oof in the search box, press ↵ Enter
Click on the redlink for Oof that it presents
In the edit window that appears, type #REDIRECT [[Foo]] on the first line to make it lead to the article Foo
Redirects should be organized in to categories too. Each redirect can have up to seven redirect categories. Categories go on the third line of the redirect. (Note: Plant has a subcategory within the category of scientific name; enter plant after a pipe).

Here are two examples of a redirect category using a category template:

{{R from birth name}}
{{R from scientific name|plant}}

Preview your new redirect before saving it. Make sure:

There is a big right-facing arrow to the left of the bolded name of your target page name.
That your target page is bolded in blue (if it is red, go back and double check your target name in the edit window).
That your redirect category has rendered properly and that the boilerplate it presents makes sense.

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