An Editor's Handbook

Maintenance Templates

Remember that for many of these a | can be put after the word to add additional notes.

Article Status

Use these to tell others about the status of the article.

• {{disambignote}}
• {{Stub}}
• {{Recent addition}}
• {{beta}}
• {{unreleased}}
• {{Strategy-WIP}}

Requests

Use these to request improvement, addition, or organization.

Page Content

• {{Cleanup}}
• {{Rewrite}}
• {{correction}}
• {{retranslate}}
• {{Intromissing}}
• {{Expandlist}}

File Content

• {{Improveimage|Notes for improvement}}
• {{Needimage}}
• {{Needvideo}}
• {{Externally linked}}

Page Organization

• {{Delete|Reason for deletion}}
• {{Move|Proposed target title}}
• {{Merge|Proposed merger target}}
• {{Split}}
• {{dead end}}
• {{deprecated}}

Creating a Custom Signature

1. Navigate to User:USERNAME/Sig

Note: Replace USERNAME with your Team Fortress Wiki username.

2. Edit the page, and include everything that you want to be in your sig. For example, to recreate the default signature, you'd add something like:

[[User:USERNAME|USERNAME]]

3. Save the page

4. Go to Special:Preferences

5. In the "Signature" field, add the following:

{{SUBST:User:USERNAME/Sig}}

6. Check the box marked "Treat signatures as Wikitext (without an automatic link)"

That's it. Next time you use ~~~~ it will be replaced with the contents of your /Sig page.

Example: Fyahweather

Featuring Articles

Nominating an article for featured article review, is a three step process.

1. Ensure the article meets all of the featured article criteria.

2. Next the featured article candidate template should be included on the article's talk page.

You can include this template by using the following code:

{{Featured article candidate}}

3. Lastly, you need to add the article to the list of nominated articles.

To do this, click here and type the article's name in the subject surrounded by double squared brackets (example: [[ArticleName]]) and in the text add the reason why you think the article is worthy of nomination

To support or object an article nomination, click the edit link next to that article's section, and your opinion in the following format.

Supporting and Objecting

Support

'''Support''': Why you support this article's nomination

Support: This article is well written, containing a good demonstration, lengthy detail, and useful information.

Object

'''Object''': Why you object to this article's nomination

'''Oppose''': Why you oppose this article's nomination

Object: This article does not have painted images.

Oppose: This article is constantly beset by vandalism.

Comment

'''Comment''': Your comment

Comment: The article has been nominated for feature twice.