'This sub-page on my user space is designed to provided a simplified set of help pointers for students and others I work with. 'It relates rather directly to a series of workshops (originally held in 2011/12 + 2012 + 2013) delivered towards creating and/or editing Wikipedia articles as an educational assignment...but is also useful in other Wikipedia training sessions.
Be sure to look at the above pages! They are very important, and they will help you — even if you're not perfect the firstsecondtenthseventeenth 33rd time!
You can also download a very helpful PDF which contains the essential elements to help you get to know how Wikipedia works.
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* {{subst:uw-vandalism2|PageName}}~~~~ (suitable for intentional nonsense or disruption)
* {{subst:uw-delete2|PageName}}~~~~ (variant for removal of content)
* {{subst:uw-vandalism3|PageName}}~~~~ ("please stop" for use after level 2 warning)
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* {{subst:uw-vandalism4|PageName}}~~~~ (last warning for vandalism)
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* {{subst:uw-vandalism4im|PageName}}~~~~ (only warning; for severe or grotesque vandalism only)
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Pages intended to be reused as portions of other pages are called templates. The names of template pages start with the prefix Template:. A template can be included on another page using the syntax {{Page name}} (including the curly brackets), but leave out the Template: prefix between the curly brackets!
If you wish to make a personal boilerplate (such as a personalized welcome message, or the like), you make it in your own userspace. Simply create the page as a subpage of your userspace (in the format User:Foo/something). To put it onto a page, use the curly brackets as usual, but remember to use the syntax {{User:Foo/something}} rather than {{something}}. This is because the curly-bracket syntax automatically looks in the Template namespace, so if you want to use one from your own userspace, you need to tell it to look there.