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Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.</td> <td class="mbox-imageright"> <table class="shortcutbox noprint" style="float: right; border: 1px solid #aaa; background: #fff; margin: 0; padding: 1px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.1em"> <tr> <th style="border: none; background: transparent;"><span id="WP:EDITFAST"></span><small><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a>:<br/> <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EDITFAST" title="Wikipedia:EDITFAST" class="mw-redirect">WP:EDITFAST</a></small></th> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="vertical-navbox nowraplinks" style="float:right;clear:right;width:22.0em;margin:0 0 1.0em 1.0em;background:#f9f9f9;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:0.2em;border-spacing:0.4em 0;text-align:center;line-height:1.4em;font-size:88%;width:17.5em;border-width:2px;"> <tr> <th style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0.2em;font-size:145%;line-height:1.2em;font-size:125%;font-weight:heavy;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia">Contributing to Wikipedia</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0.2em 0 0.4em;padding-bottom:1.0em;border-bottom:1px solid;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia"><img alt="QA icon.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150614091407im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/QA_icon.svg/40px-QA_icon.svg.png" width="40" height="40" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150614091407im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/QA_icon.svg/60px-QA_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150614091407im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/QA_icon.svg/80px-QA_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="60" data-file-height="60"/></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="padding:0.1em;background:#E9E9E9;padding:0.1em 0;font-size:95%;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Protocols</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td class="plainlist" style="padding:0 0.1em 0.4em;padding:0.2em 0 0.6em; font-size:93%;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy" title="Wikipedia:Editing policy">Editing policy</a></li> <li>(<a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Core_content_policies" title="Wikipedia:Core content policies">Content policies</a>)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette" title="Wikipedia:Etiquette">Etiquette guide</a></li> <li>(<a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">Dispute resolution</a>)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_ruleset" title="Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset">Simple rule-set</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style">Simple style-manual</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="padding:0.1em;background:#E9E9E9;padding:0.1em 0;font-size:95%;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started" title="Help:Getting started">Introductions</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td class="plainlist" style="padding:0 0.1em 0.4em;padding:0.2em 0 0.6em; font-size:93%;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Wikipedia:About">About Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia">How to contribute</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial" title="Wikipedia:Tutorial">Tutorial</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/Newcomers/Welcome" title="Wikipedia:Training/Newcomers/Welcome">Newcomer training</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_primer_for_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:A primer for newcomers">Newcomers primer</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plain_and_simple" title="Wikipedia:Plain and simple">Plain & simple</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure" title="Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure">The Wikipedia Adventure</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="padding:0.1em;background:#E9E9E9;padding:0.1em 0;font-size:95%;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Directory#General_help_pages" title="Help:Contents/Directory">How-to pages</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td class="plainlist" style="padding:0 0.1em 0.4em;padding:0.2em 0 0.6em; font-size:93%;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why create an account?">Creating an account</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">How to edit</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article" title="Wikipedia:Your first article">Starting an article</a></li> <li>(<a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard" title="Wikipedia:Article wizard">Article wizard</a>)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_talk_pages" title="Help:Using talk pages">Talk pages</a></li> <li>(<a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discuss_cycle" title="Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle">BOLD, revert, discuss</a>)</li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">Referencing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page" title="Wikipedia:Moving a page">Renaming</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creation_and_usage_of_media_files" title="Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files">Media</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:List" title="Help:List">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table/Introduction_to_tables" title="Help:Table/Introduction to tables">Tables</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">Templates</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_text_from_other_sources" title="Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources">Copying text</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Styletips" title="Wikipedia:Styletips">Style-tips</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup" title="Help:Wiki markup">Wiki markup</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="padding:0.1em;background:#E9E9E9;padding:0.1em 0;font-size:95%;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Article_writing" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Article writing">Writing advice</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td class="plainlist" style="padding:0 0.1em 0.4em;padding:0.2em 0 0.6em; font-size:93%;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_development" title="Wikipedia:Article development">Article development</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_copyediting" title="Wikipedia:Basic copyediting">Basic copyediting</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout">Layouts</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoiding_common_mistakes" title="Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes">Avoiding mistakes</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">Writing better</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_article" title="Wikipedia:The perfect article">Perfect article</a></li> <li><strong class="selflink">Advanced editing</strong></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="padding:0.1em;background:#E9E9E9;padding:0.1em 0;font-size:95%;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_directory" title="Wikipedia:Department directory">Community</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td class="plainlist" style="padding:0 0.1em 0.4em;padding:0.2em 0 0.6em; font-size:93%;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal" title="Wikipedia:Community portal">Community portal</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dashboard" title="Wikipedia:Dashboard">Dashboard</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Backlog" title="Wikipedia:Backlog">Backlog</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintenance" title="Wikipedia:Maintenance">Maintenance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory">WikiProjects</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="padding:0.1em;background:#E9E9E9;padding:0.1em 0;font-size:95%;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Quick_directory#Other_directories" title="Wikipedia:Quick directory">Directories</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td class="plainlist" style="padding:0 0.1em 0.4em;padding:0.2em 0 0.6em; font-size:93%;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ_index" title="Wikipedia:FAQ index">FAQs</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor%27s_index_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia">Editor's index</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Directory" title="Help:Contents/Directory">Help index</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th style="padding:0.1em;background:#E9E9E9;padding:0.1em 0;font-size:95%;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests" title="Wikipedia:Requests">Interactive help</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td class="plainlist" style="padding:0 0.1em 0.4em;padding:0.2em 0 0.6em; font-size:93%;"> <div class="hlist"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse" title="Wikipedia:Teahouse">Teahouse</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:Help desk">Help desk</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right;font-size:115%"> <div class="plainlinks hlist navbar mini"> <ul> <li class="nv-view"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Template:Contributing to Wikipedia"><span title="View this template">v</span></a></li> <li class="nv-talk"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Template talk:Contributing to Wikipedia"><span title="Discuss this template">t</span></a></li> <li class="nv-edit"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Contributing_to_Wikipedia&action=edit"><span title="Edit this template">e</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <p>This essay, <b>Wikipedia:Advanced article editing</b> describes some techniques to improve editing of Wikipedia articles. Most of the tips involve using typical browser settings, or use of standard text-editors, such as for side-by-side editing. While some special software packages exist, to allow customized editing, they are typically not available when travelling to other computers for wiki-editing.</p> <p></p> <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Faster_display"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Faster display</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Set_user_preferences"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Set user preferences</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Skip_slow-parts_of_articles"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Skip slow-parts of articles</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Side-by-side_editing_or_diff"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Side-by-side editing or diff</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Use_an_external_editor_beside_edit-window"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Use an external editor beside edit-window</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Double-copy_the_edit-window"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Double-copy the edit-window</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Even_proofread_alongside_an_edit-window"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Even proofread alongside an edit-window</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Potential_impact_for_side-by-side_edit"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Potential impact for side-by-side edit</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Complex_text_substitutions"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Complex text substitutions</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#Avoiding_accidental_save_of_edit"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Avoiding accidental save of edit</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Showing_double-brace_markup"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Showing double-brace markup</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Far_future"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Far future</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <p></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Faster_display">Faster display</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Faster display">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Set_user_preferences">Set user preferences</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Set user preferences">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li><i>Enable section editing</i> – The top section of an article (&section=0) can be edited separately for much faster update of the intro text (right-click top option "my preferences" click-tab "Editing" and click "Enable section editing" option).</li> <li><i>Hide edit-toolbar</i> – Turning off the edit-toolbar can make a short edit-page appear 2x-4x faster (right-click top option "my preferences" click-tab "Editing" and unclick "Show edit-toolbar" option).</li> <li>NOTE: Some article intro-sections do not contain all the top images, so sometimes, editing a whole article could be faster, for adjusting the image placement.</li> </ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Skip_slow-parts_of_articles">Skip slow-parts of articles</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Skip slow-parts of articles">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li>During show-preview, all cumbersome tables or navboxes must be reformatted for the preview, but could be skipped by adding comments or #ifeq.</li> <li>Consider commenting-out those massive, gigantic bottom navboxes that typically double (or triple) the S-L-O-W-N-E-S-S of article previews: just put "" around the bottom navbox-template codings. (Even with <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_Internet" title="High-speed Internet" class="mw-redirect">high-speed Internet</a>, large navboxes take a long time).</li> <li>Consider conditional-skip of text, using <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> #ifeq-statements: using the markup language, surround omitted sections with "{{#if: skip |skip part 1|" and ending with "}}". Only "skip part 1" will show. Although HTML comments cannot be nested, the #ifeq-statements can be nested, as long as the spanned text does not upset the use of vertical-bar "|" or "}}" text.</li> <li>Consider copying troublesome sections of an article into a test-page for repeated changes & previews: edit as a user-space page (User:XXX/TestZZ) and copy/paste some text there for repeated changing/previewing. Perhaps have an "edit-TestZZ" window all the time.</li> <li>NOTE: For broader testing, the copied part of an article often spans 2 or 3 sections, rather than just 1 section as typically being edited. Be sure to copy enough sections for an accurate preview.</li> </ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Side-by-side_editing_or_diff">Side-by-side editing or diff</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Side-by-side editing or diff">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The Wikipedia article-edit window is not designed for side-by-side editing, due to the formatted preview-article usually being on the top-half of the page, while the edit-buffer is typically far below (near the page bottom). By the time various text-issues are noticed, the user often forgets where those occurred within the edit-buffer, far below. However, when using 2 browser windows for side-by-side editing, the text (or image) is noticed in one window and located/changed in the other window, thereby allowing numerous, precise changes to be made 2x to 10x times (or more) faster, without forgetting the tedious details. The 2nd window could show an edit-preview, a <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison" title="Comparison" class="mw-disambig">diff</a>, or history-tab list. Compare the lower <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity" title="Productivity">productivity</a> of 1 browser window, versus using 2 windows, and note how much faster all details are caught.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Use_an_external_editor_beside_edit-window">Use an external editor beside edit-window</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Use an external editor beside edit-window">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li>A good method to allow side-by-side editing is to copy the browser edit-window into a text-editor (such as <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad" title="Notepad" class="mw-redirect">Notepad</a> in Windows or <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit" title="TextEdit">TextEdit</a> in Mac OS X), then change text in the external editor but copy/paste & preview the results in the browser edit-window buffer. However, this can be dangerous when forgetting which buffer has the recent changes.</li> <li>The nearby editor can allow powerful editing, such as search-and-replace, or perhaps some spell-checker functions.</li> <li>NOTE: To avoid losing changes, perhaps always edit in the external editor, but paste/preview into the browser window. The final save would be made in the browser window, but perhaps only after a final, careful edit-preview. Remember a careful preview could save perhaps an hour of (later) finding & re-editing a half-changed article. Recall the <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adage" title="Adage">adage</a>: <i>"<a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Early_detection&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Early detection (page does not exist)">A stitch in time saves nine</a>"</i>.</li> </ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Double-copy_the_edit-window">Double-copy the edit-window</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Double-copy the edit-window">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <ul> <li>A quick method to allow side-by-side editing is to copy the browser edit-window, then change text in one window but copy/paste & preview the results in the 2nd window. However, this can be dangerous when forgetting which of the 2 windows has the most recent changes.</li> <li>NOTE: To avoid losing changes, perhaps always edit in the left-hand window (for example), but paste/preview into the right-hand window. The final save could be made in the left-hand window, perhaps after a final (one-time) preview on the left.</li> <li><em>A safer technique</em> is to edit in a <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SANDBOX" title="Wikipedia:SANDBOX" class="mw-redirect">sandbox</a> and save actual changes to the real article after they are finalized. By saving the sandbox frequently, you can minimize the chance of losing your work if your browser or system crashes, without any need for concern about whether the change are final yet.</li> </ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Even_proofread_alongside_an_edit-window">Even proofread alongside an edit-window</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Even proofread alongside an edit-window">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The increased speed of side-by-side editing can even be extended to a mere "proofreading" phase. When initially viewing an article, there might be a "wait-and-see attitude" as to whether there are enough trouble spots to warrant editing the article. Instead, consider first reading an article (with no intent to change it), but first click to "edit" in a new window, and then while reading (for the first time) make "possible edits" in the edit-window, while reading the formatted article page in the 1st window.</p> <ul> <li>Click "edit" open in new window (before first reading an article).</li> </ul> <p>Often, within 10 minutes, numerous improvements could be made that might have taken another 20 minutes to re-locate and remember, if the edit-window had not been instantly available when first reading the page. It might seem like a trivial issue, but compare the results a few times to realize how much time is burned to re-locate and remember such changes.</p> <p>However, beware the temptation to become a "copy-edit fanatic" when it is usually more important to add new text or new source footnotes to most articles.</p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Potential_impact_for_side-by-side_edit">Potential impact for side-by-side edit</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Potential impact for side-by-side edit">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The potential increase in productivity, using side-by-side as a new way of arranging edits, is almost a magical breakthrough in the ability to easily improve hundreds of scattered details. It is even more powerful than a <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG" title="WYSIWYG">WYSIWYG</a> editor, for 4 reasons: (1) it allows users to even see/edit the underlying tables or infobox markup-language, before becoming distracted by a wholly reformatted page; (2) the editing can continue while the preview-page is being formatted/displayed in the 2nd window; (3) results do not demand verification; and (4) the diff-listing can remind users about all edits. Specifically:</p> <ol> <li>WYSIWYG editors have the drawback that they insist on live, instant transformations, which can seriously distract attention from rapidly focusing on myriad other details, when such ongoing reformatting occurs. In effect, side-by-side editing allows both levels of attention: either change a few details & reformat to see results, or step-by-step change almost all details (top-to-bottom), uninterrupted, and then wait for the massive reformatting afterward. Again, WYSIWYG-editing could be very distracting if adding a small change distorted the output and shocked attention away from numerous other small details.</li> <li>Because the edit-preview is processed in a 2nd window, the user is able to continue more editing in the 1st window, while choosing to ignore the in-progress formatting of the display-page, if too distracting at the moment.</li> <li>It is an utter myth that all changes must be verified (instantly or not). When making 57 changes to a page, it can be better to hope for 54 (of 57) successes, and move onto other articles, rather than to carefully babysit each change and lose time for the next article. Total "perfection" is not necessary in this level of writing, where articles are later hacked by anyone.</li> <li>During the side-by-side edit, a user can focus on changing the underlying markup language, so when it comes time to run a diff-listing (button "Show changes"), the user is able to review each change (as before/after) and compare the text in the familiar markup style. New typos can appear as unexpected keystrokes in the diff-listing.</li> </ol> <p>Quick editing is not just about fast edit/response feedback, but also about avoiding or limiting either distractions, or forced verification steps, as well. Being quicker, long-term, could depend on spotting edit-problems by using diff-listings in the 2nd window, while further editing continues in the 1st window.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Complex_text_substitutions">Complex text substitutions</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Complex text substitutions">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Even a simple text-editor, such as Microsoft <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad_(software)" title="Notepad (software)">Notepad</a>, can be used to handle some complex changes, by using multiple text <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_substitution" title="String substitution" class="mw-redirect">string-substitutions</a>. For example, 2 edit-commands could be used to add <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark" title="Quotation mark">quotation marks</a> around <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikilink" title="Wikipedia:Wikilink" class="mw-redirect">wikilinks</a>:</p> <ul> <li>Use Notepad edit-replace to change all opening ' [[' (to become: "[[ ).</li> <li>Use Notepad edit-replace to change all closing ']] ' (to become: ]]" ).</li> </ul> <p>For any wikilinks which already had quotation marks, then replace all double-quote patterns ("") with a single quotation mark.</p> <p>For several years, there has been a free text-editor, called "<a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoteTab" title="NoteTab">NoteTab</a>", which allows using highly complex <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions" title="Regular expressions" class="mw-redirect">regular expressions</a> to find, replace or swap multiple text-patterns on each line of a page. The free version of NoteTab is a simplified version of the commercial-product version, and allows many sophisticated features, without having to buy the full-feature version. NoteTab can also be used to count words or particular phrases within a page. For more, see the features described in essay: "<a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NoteTab&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:NoteTab (page does not exist)">WP:NoteTab</a>".</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Avoiding_accidental_save_of_edit">Avoiding accidental save of edit</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Avoiding accidental save of edit">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Wikipedia has a user-preferences setting to warn about a blank edit-summary line, and then request confirmation before saving. However, when nearing completion of changing a page, a user is tempted to start composing the edit-summary text, which thus opens the door of accidental SAVE of a partial edit, with a permanent partial summary line. Instead of accidents, compose the edit-summary line as the last line of the page, using HTML comment tags "" to hide that line. For example:</p> <dl> <dd> <table class="wikitable" width="540px"> <tr> <td> <dl> <dd>(...<i>text of article above here</i>...)<br/> <code></code></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </dd> </dl> <p>Putting that comment line at the end of the page allows seeing (& revising) the whole edit-summary text, without risk of accidental SAVE (stopped by the edit-summary field still blank). When ready, copy that bottom line as the edit-summary, and if you forget to remove that bottom line, it is only a hidden comment, so it can wait until you (or another user) deletes that comment when making further changes to that page, after a few hours or days.</p> <p>Few things make editing worse than saving a <i>partial</i> edit, where other users see the half-baked change, and either complain or re-change the page, causing "edit-conflict" when you try to finish the incomplete edit which was accidentally saved. In general, try to SAVE an entire edit to a specific article only once, or wait another 20 minutes, because other editors will be alerted and might embark on their own changes to the <i>awakened</i> article.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Showing_double-brace_markup">Showing double-brace markup</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Showing double-brace markup">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Although articles rarely contain the double-brace markers "{{" and "}}" those braces are common in <a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template" title="Wikipedia:Template" class="mw-redirect">wiki-template</a> documentation pages. To avoid activating templates (except inside tables), the double-brace markers can be encoded by adding 1 HTML character-number code:</p> <ul> <li>the left double-brace "{{" is "{&#123;", with bar "|" as &#124;</li> <li>the right double-brace "}}" is "&#125;}".</li> </ul> <p>When editing text inside of tables, then double-numbers or nowiki tags should be used (because tables look for a single left-brace "{"). The double-number characters are simply "&#123;&#123;" (for "{{") and "&#125;&#125;" (for "}}").</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Far_future">Far future</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Far future">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Perhaps in the close future, a Wikipedia edit-window will have some type of side-by-side display, allowing a scrolling area for formatted output. However, due to the complexity of simulating a formatted-page in a scrolling region, it would probably be many years before such, side-by-side, editing could be implemented in a single browser page. It is being implemented for translations currently though.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advanced_article_editing&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia">WP:Contributing to Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_footnote_formatting" title="Wikipedia:Advanced footnote formatting">WP:Advanced footnote formatting</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_template_coding" title="Wikipedia:Advanced template coding">WP:Advanced template coding</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_table_formatting" title="Wikipedia:Advanced table formatting">WP:Advanced table formatting</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_text_formatting" title="Wikipedia:Advanced text formatting">WP:Advanced text formatting</a></li> </ul> <table class="navbox" style="border-spacing:0"> <tr> <td style="padding:2px"> <table class="nowraplinks collapsible collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"> <tr> <th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="plainlinks hlist navbar mini"> <ul> <li class="nv-view"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Essays_on_building_Wikipedia" title="Template:Essays on building Wikipedia"><span title="View this template" style="text-align: center;;;background:none transparent;border:none;">v</span></a></li> <li 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href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:8_simple_rules_for_editing_our_encyclopedia" title="Wikipedia:8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia">8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Explanationism" title="Wikipedia:Explanationism">Explanationism</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_encyclopedia" title="Wikipedia:Here to build an encyclopedia">Here to build an encyclopedia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_editing_because_of_Wikipedia_restriction" title="Wikipedia:Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction">Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paradoxes" title="Wikipedia:Paradoxes">Paradoxes</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Close_paraphrasing" title="Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing">Paraphrasing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_and_OR_from_editors,_sources,_and_fields" title="Wikipedia:POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields">POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Product,_process,_policy" title="Wikipedia:Product, process, policy">Product, process, policy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose" title="Wikipedia:Purpose">Purpose</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reasonability_Rule" title="Wikipedia:Reasonability Rule">Reason-ability rule</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia">Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tendentious_editing" title="Wikipedia:Tendentious editing">Tendentious editing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_role_of_policies_in_collaborative_anarchy" title="Wikipedia:The role of policies in collaborative anarchy">The role of policies in collaborative anarchy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_rules_are_principles" title="Wikipedia:The rules are principles">The rules are principles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Trifecta" title="Wikipedia:Trifecta">Trifecta</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_brief" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia in brief">Wikipedia in brief</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_encyclopedia" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia">Wikipedia is an encyclopedia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_community" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a community">Wikipedia is a community</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Article_writing" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Article writing">Construction</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:100,000_feature-quality_articles" title="Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles">100K featured articles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_navbox_on_every_page" title="Wikipedia:A navbox on every page">A navbox on every page</a></li> <li><strong class="selflink">Advanced article editing</strong></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_table_formatting" title="Wikipedia:Advanced table formatting">Advanced table formatting</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_template_coding" title="Wikipedia:Advanced template coding">Advanced template coding</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advanced_text_formatting" title="Wikipedia:Advanced text formatting">Advanced text formatting</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternatives_to_the_%22Expand%22_template" title="Wikipedia:Alternatives to the "Expand" template">Alternatives to the "Expand" template</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Amnesia_test" title="Wikipedia:Amnesia test">Amnesia test</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:An_unfinished_house_is_a_real_problem" title="Wikipedia:An unfinished house is a real problem">An unfinished house is a real problem</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autosizing_images" title="Wikipedia:Autosizing images">Autosizing images</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_mission_statements" title="Wikipedia:Avoid mission statements">Avoid mission statements</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bare_URLs" title="Wikipedia:Bare URLs">Bare URLs</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_neutral_in_form" title="Wikipedia:Be neutral in form">Be neutral in form</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beef_up_that_first_revision" title="Wikipedia:Beef up that first revision">Beef up that first revision</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cherrypicking" title="Wikipedia:Cherrypicking">Cherrypicking</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_overkill" title="Wikipedia:Citation overkill">Citation overkill</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Concept_cloud" title="Wikipedia:Concept cloud">Concept cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_controversial_content" title="Wikipedia:Creating controversial content">Creating controversial content</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dictionaries_as_sources" title="Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources">Dictionaries as sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_demolish_the_house_while_it%27s_still_being_built" title="Wikipedia:Don't demolish the house while it's still being built">Don't demolish the house while it's still being built</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_hope_the_house_will_build_itself" title="Wikipedia:Don't hope the house will build itself">Don't hope the house will build itself</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_Parkinson%27s_Bicycle_Shed_Effect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect">Don't get hung up on minor details</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_leave_giant_breaks_between_sections" title="Wikipedia:Don't leave giant breaks between sections">Don't leave giant breaks between sections</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_panic" title="Wikipedia:Don't panic">Don't panic</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_on_mobile_devices" title="Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices">Editing on mobile devices</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editors_are_not_mindreaders" title="Wikipedia:Editors are not mindreaders">Editors are not mindreaders</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encourage_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Encourage the newcomers">Encourage the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Endorsements" title="Wikipedia:Endorsements">Endorsements (commercial)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles_may_have_problems" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles may have problems">Featured articles may have problems</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Give_an_article_a_chance" title="Wikipedia:Give an article a chance">Give an article a chance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon" title="Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon">How to run an edit-a-thon</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Inaccuracies_in_Wikipedia_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace">Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Inaccuracy" title="Wikipedia:Inaccuracy">Inaccuracy</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Law_sources_as_reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Law sources as reliable sources">Law sources</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">Link rot</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Minors_and_persons_judged_incompetent" title="Wikipedia:Minors and persons judged incompetent">Minors and persons judged incompetent</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%22Murder_of%22_articles" title="Wikipedia:"Murder of" articles">"Murder of" articles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_every_story/event/disaster_needs_a_biography" title="Wikipedia:Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography">Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_everything_needs_a_navbox" title="Wikipedia:Not everything needs a navbox">Not everything needs a navbox</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_everything_needs_a_WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:Not everything needs a WikiProject">Not everything needs a WikiProject</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing_is_in_stone" title="Wikipedia:Nothing is in stone">Nothing is in stone</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Permastub" title="Wikipedia:Permastub">Permastub</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potential,_not_just_current_state" title="Wikipedia:Potential, not just current state">Potential, not just current state</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Printability" title="Wikipedia:Printability">Printability</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Put_a_little_effort_into_it" title="Wikipedia:Put a little effort into it">Put a little effort into it</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:For_publicists_publicizing_a_client%27s_work" title="Wikipedia:For publicists publicizing a client's work">Publicists</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Restoring_part_of_a_reverted_edit" title="Wikipedia:Restoring part of a reverted edit">Restoring part of a reverted edit</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Robotic_editing" title="Wikipedia:Robotic editing">Robotic editing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sham_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Sham consensus">Sham consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Temporary_versions_of_articles" title="Wikipedia:Temporary versions of articles">Temporary versions of articles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_world_will_not_end_tomorrow" title="Wikipedia:The world will not end tomorrow">The world will not end tomorrow</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline" title="Wikipedia:There is a deadline">There is a deadline</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_deadline" title="Wikipedia:There is no deadline">There is no deadline</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_deadline_is_now" title="Wikipedia:The deadline is now">The deadline is now</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Walled_garden" title="Wikipedia:Walled garden">Walled garden</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_an_article_should_not_include" title="Wikipedia:What an article should not include">What an article should not include</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_work_in_progress" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress">Wikipedia is a work in progress</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_being_written_in_an_organized_fashion" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion">Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Write_the_article_first" title="Wikipedia:Write the article first">Write the article first</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">Writing better articles</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;"><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Essays_in_a_nutshell/Deletion" title="Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Deletion">Deletion</a></th> <td class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"> <div style="padding:0em 0.25em"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adjectives_in_your_recommendations" title="Wikipedia:Adjectives in your recommendations">Adjectives in your recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion_is_not_a_war_zone" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion is not a war zone">AfD is not a war zone</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions">Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_reviews" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews">Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_image_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions">Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_make_in_deletion_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions">Arguments to make in deletion discussions</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_repeated_arguments" title="Wikipedia:Avoid repeated arguments">Avoid repeated arguments</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Before_commenting_in_a_deletion_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Before commenting in a deletion discussion">Before commenting in a deletion discussion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_removal" title="Wikipedia:Content removal">Content removal</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Delete_the_junk" title="Wikipedia:Delete the junk">Delete the junk</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Does_deletion_help" title="Wikipedia:Does deletion help">Does deletion help</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_overuse_shortcuts_to_policy_and_guidelines_to_win_your_argument" title="Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument">Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Follow_the_leader" title="Wikipedia:Follow the leader">Follow the leader</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_save_an_article_proposed_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:How to save an article proposed for deletion">How to save an article proposed for deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:I_just_don%27t_like_it" title="Wikipedia:I just don't like it">I just don't like it</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Immunity" title="Wikipedia:Immunity">Immunity</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Liar_Liar_Pants_on_Fire" title="Wikipedia:Liar Liar Pants on Fire">Liar Liar Pants on Fire</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nothing" title="Wikipedia:Nothing">Nothing</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overzealous_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Overzealous deletion">Overzealous deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Relisting_can_be_abusive" title="Wikipedia:Relisting can be abusive">Relisting can be abusive</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_Whac-A-Mole" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Whac-A-Mole">Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_was_the_page_I_created_deleted%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why was the page I created deleted?">Why was the page I created deleted?</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20150614091407/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_to_do_if_your_article_gets_tagged_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion">What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion</a></li> </ul> </div> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:2px"> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" 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