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Help:Editing/Tipoftheday
All 31 "Editing Tips of the Day"
To pull the Editing Tip of the Day into a page, use {{editingtip}}.
| 1 | You can get RSS feeds of changes to pages. While viewing the page history, select "RSS" from the toolbox in the left-hand menu! | [edit] |
| 2 | Not finding the Help you're looking for? Try Category:Help! | [edit] |
| 3 | There's lots of pre-made templates ready for use to help you design your pages! | [edit] |
| 4 | Deleting a page only takes a few tag inserts. See Help:Deleting pages! | [edit] |
| 5 | Categorize your pages to make them even easier to find, and for finding pages relating to yours! | [edit] |
| 6 | Want the Tip of the Day in your page? Just insert {{editingtip}}! | [edit] |
| 7 | The other contributors value your input! You can help out by voting! | [edit] |
| 8 | Want to help out but don't know with what? Check out the Community portal! | [edit] |
| 9 | There's plenty of Boilerplates to help you get your pages right, right from the start! | [edit] |
| 10 | Can't find the template you're looking for? Try navigating Category:Templates! | [edit] |
| 11 | Use ~~~~ and it will be replaced with [[User:<yourname>|<yourname>]] and the date on save!
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| 12 | Bookmark the editing quickref! It has all those pesky tags you can't quite remember. | [edit] |
| 13 | You no longer need to use {{catredirect|category name}} when redirecting a regular article to a category page. | [edit] |
| 14 | Do you want to get your page just right? The Wowpedia Guidelines might be of help! | [edit] |
| 15 | Want to draw attention to your vote? Link to it from the Community Portal votes section! | [edit] |
| 16 | Use {{tocright}} to position the Table of Contents to the right. Use extremely sparingly!
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| 17 | If you make a page, do not try to drum up support for it. Let the people come to you. | [edit] |
| 18 | The Show Preview button is your friend. Always use it before saving the final version of the page. | [edit] |
| 19 | Don't want a Table of Contents on your page? Add __NOTOC__ at the top of the page.
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| 20 | Do you believe you have a question about editing which you want to be answered as soon as possible? Don't be shy and ask it in our Discord server! | [edit] |
| 21 | Making a controversial or large edit to a page? Check the Discussion page and tell people about it! | [edit] |
| 22 | When making an item page, you can use {{itemtip}} to create an in-game styled tooltip for them. | [edit] |
| 23 | Want to use a template for things, but don't know how they work or what they do? See Wowpedia:Templates. | [edit] |
| 24 | You can use interlanguage links to link to WoW wikis in other languages! | [edit] |
| 25 | Creating an item article but you don't know what icon is used? Use {{Icon needed}}! | [edit] |
| 26 | Personalize your signature on Wowpedia! Check out Wowpedia:Signature for help and ideas. | [edit] |
| 27 | Linking an item in an article? Use {{loot|<Commonality>|<Item Name>}}! | [edit] |
| 28 | Fan fiction is welcome on Wowpedia. Remember to use the proper template to differentiate fan-created work from official lore pages! | [edit] |
| 29 | The Community portal is chock full of editing resources. It's a great help to editors! | [edit] |
| 30 | Templates don't have to live in "Template:". Using local templates makes your life easier! | [edit] |
| 31 | Typoed your page's name? Don't delete and create a new one - rename it! | [edit] |
