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Useful templates

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  • {{user3|username}} - i.e. Spidern (talk · contribs · logs)
  • {{quotation|text|who}} - i.e.

    The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy...Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment....It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals...The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence...A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy

  • {{rescue}} - Flag an article which is notable but in need of additional sources, or cleanup. See Article Rescue Squadron.
  • {{Findsourcesnotice}} - To be used on an article's talk page. Automatically creates Google Scholar, Books, and News links for the subject (name of article to which the talk page corresponds).
  • {{Collapse top|1=Optional text}}DISCUSSION{{Collapse bottom}} - To archive a discussion made elsewhere, with a collapsible box.

Useful pages on Wikipedia

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User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary - For a convenient listing of PRODs with summaries.

Other useful tools

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Citefillers (copy external link and enter &id= followed by ISBN/URL):

WP citefiller (books) - i.e. http://diberri.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/templatefiller/index.cgi?ddb=&type=isbn&add_accessdate=1&add_ref_tag=1&id=0195117972&id=<isbn>

WP citefiller (URL) - i.e. http://diberri.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/templatefiller/index.cgi?ddb=&type=url&add_accessdate=1&add_ref_tag=1&id=http://<newsarticleURL>

OttoBib (copy external link then enter ISBN followed by /wp):

OttoBib - i.e. http://ottobib.com/isbn/<ISBN>/wp

A handy dictionary:

Sytes dictionary - i.e. http://<word>.word.sytes.org produces a dictionary result for "<word>"

Misc wiki tools:

WikiRage - Most controversial Wikipedia articles at any given time

WikiChecker - Stats and analysis of English Wikipedia