User:Uffda007/sandbox

This is my sandbox. I use it to learn how to use wiki markup and create drafts for articles.

Be bold!

Uffda007 (talk) 18:46, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

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  A trio of Wikipedia images to spruce up the ol' sandbox.
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Paragraph

This helps you set the style of the text. For example, a header, or plain paragraph text. You can also use it to offset block quotes.

Formatting

Highlight your text, then click here to format it with bold, italics, etc. The "More" options allows you to underline, add code snippets, and change language keyboards.

Links: The chain button allows you to link your text. Highlight the word, and push the button. VisualEditor will automatically suggest related Wikipedia articles for that word or phrase. This is a great way to connect your article to more Wikipedia content. You only have to link important words once, usually during the first time they appear. If you want to link to pages outside of Wikipedia (for an "external links" section, for example) click on the "External link" tab. You can hover your cursor over the mystery "External Link" to see where it goes before you commit to clicking it.

Cite

The citation tool in VisualEditor helps format your citations. You can simply paste a DOI or URL, and the VisualEditor will try to sort out all of the fields you need. Be sure to review it, however, and apply missing fields manually (if you know them). You can also add books, journals, news, and websites manually. That opens up a quick guide for inputting your citations. Finally, you can click the "re-use" tab if you've already added a source and just want to cite it again.

The Purdue Writing Lab was an invaluable citation guide during my undergraduate years. Thankfully, Wikipedia has made it incredibly easy to create proper citations in an article!

Bullets

• To add bullet points or a numbered list
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Insert

This tab lets you add media, images, or tables. A section containing only a sentence or two is not considered optimal. Refer to this useful Wikipedia page on building your first article.

Tables

Tables are useful for a great many types of Wikipages. The sciences are especially ripe for tables!

I'm a table!
a	b	c	d	e
f	g	h	i	j
k	l	m	n	o
p	q	r	s	t

Final Tab

Sandbox photo used for sandbox exercises.

Ω: The final tab allows you to add special characters, such as those found in non-English words, scientific notation, and a handful of language extensions. The example sentences below demonstrate accent marks used in French to denote pronunciation of words. There is also a reference to a French film.

Au revoir, les enfants. Bien sûr, ma petite. Je conduis à la bibliothèque tous les jours. C'est comme ci, comme ça, n'est-ce pas?

Images

Images are a great way to liven up a lonely sandbox. For example, the image displayed on this page is a literal manifestation of a sandbox. Isn't it neat? I'm glad my French professors made films part of the language study curriculum!

Bella Books

I will work on edits that I want to contribute to the stub-class page on "Bella Books". I want to gather as much information as I can before I begin to add it to the page.

Citations

Places you can find information related to the publisher's award winners: "Our Award-Winning Authors" on its website; Lambda Literary's "Complete List of Award Recipients" (although this requires a tedious search process).

A quick tally of winners and nominees from 1989-2016 shows that Bella Books has had 44 overall nominations and six winners, as well as a 2005 Independent Press Award.

Lesbian Romance

As I was adding Wikilinks to articles, I discovered that there is no article for "Lesbian Romance" and that some popular authors do not have articles. Karin Kallmaker's article contains a section on her contributions to Lesbian Romance. I suppose it could be a section with "Lesbian Literature" or "Romance" more generally...